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from:msnbc.comTexas House approves budget that makes sweeping cuts
Seeded on Mon Apr 4, 2011 9:29 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
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Good luck with your plan in Texas to limit access to education and health care for your lower classes. Also probably a good idea to put some more people out of work so you can lower state revenue and claim another budget deficit next time as well so you can push the downward spiral on. Eventually, only the rich will be able to afford being educated and healthy. What a wonderful life it will be for the upper class. Just one question. How much in tax breaks has the state of Texas given recently to their corporations before they declared this budget short fall and how many jobs have those tax breaks created?
Cut all the English as a second language classes in elementary school and abandon the no child left behind concept of teaching. If they are illegal and can't keep up so be it. They weren't supposed to be here in the first place.
Cut those programs geared to trying to get illegals up to speed with other students and make the cuts in teachers starting in those class rooms but only after cutting out as much as the Administration as possible. Small schools with a Principal and Assist Principal or two is ridiculous.
If you look at most of the public school districts there are as many administrative people as there are teachers in the class room. The problem is the unions and the fact that many of those administrators also have teaching credentials so when their positions are cut the unions automatically claim teachers are being let go; even though many of them haven't been in a classroom in years.
Texas should also pass a law that requires anyone signing up for any entitlements to be a legal resident of the U.S. In that law also make it a requirement that any person signing up for entitlements on behalf of anyone else also be a legal resident and provide proof that they are the parent and or legal guardian of the person they are signing up for.
This would disenfranchise the illegals and get them off the public dole for the most part.
damn if you do,damn if you don't. hate to see the old folks get screwed tho., they truely deserve better. but yeah cut education,cause if they come out just as stupid with lots of money or little money. lets go with the little.
So your statement fits your name.................the truth is that in Wisconsin, the advances in teacher bargaining rights saw an increase in student performance. Governor Walker never connected the dots with expenditure with benefits. This must have been too much brain power for him. FYI BP execs got a record bonus for safety in 2010. Now I think Governors need to look into that!!!!!!!
Chris
Do you know that only approx 5% of all Wisconsin students take their SATs each year. That must be a proud statistic for the teachers union to toss around in the state of Wisconsin.
The Texas House of Representatives has 101 Republicans, an 48 Democrats. So what passed is totally Republican driven. It is even more nasty than it sounds. Texas is/was 49th, out of 50 states in state spending per senior citizen. Then they cut the budget for grannie and grandpa over 20%, and the nursing home budget closer to 30%. So, starting September 1 old folks in nursing homes will start being kicked out as the nursing homes go belly up, and the elderly move to the parking lot.September is hot in Texas, did I mention that. Those parking lots are going to be HOT. On a sidebar, it is fascinating to listen to Republican talk radio and personally talk as they rationalize that they just had to make those cuts to schools and elderly, to save Texas from terrible taxes and such. Did I mention that Texas is the 49th highest taxed state in the nation (next to last). The oil taxes pay a lot of the bills, and Texas has no income tax: none ! - But these Taxes are killing us.
But, hey it looks great on Governor Perry's resume as he hops around the country making connections for the 2012 Presidential election, and saying good things to the folks at the Tea Partys around the U.S. of A.
As a lower/middle-class Texas, I support the reductions in order to balance the budget. Making hard choices now to prevent catastrophe later is good leadership.