WTF !! TEXAS : THE HUGE STATE BUDGET CRISIS NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT !!

Eloquent sentiments.
I do know about the police state and I've had house calls. But I wonder how they will be able to make 300 million house calls when this unsustainable economy collapses and people are out in the streets?
Take care and do what is right.

Yes, I expect if they could refocus on just the legal students with legal parents, things would go much easier in the schools, they could fire a lot of particular staff people, and the budget would magically balance.

But there are federal laws to prevent that of course.

Good information. Thanks for posting.

Too bad so many of the posters here are too blinded by their own racial biases to see this for what it is- the facts.


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this is my true story: (famous words on the internet ;) )

i am a texan. many years ago, i was on a flight for las vegas
back to texas. in the seat in front of me, there was a
retired gentleman and his wife from sacremento, ca. southwest airlines had seats
that faced each other. he leaned forward, and said in a very
serious manner:
"how are you weathering this recession?"

this was about 1992 or so and cali was in some sort of
recession. i was self employed and working on contracts
that happened to be for that bigassed electric company
in california. it think it's name is calpine? anyways, i
replied to him:
"what recession? i just finished a big
project from california. apparently businesses in your
state will hire me because i work cheaper. there are NO
state income taxes and social gov't insanity in TEXAS.
since your people have voted for such things YOU are in
a recession, not texans."

he was somewhat gruff afterwards and very well should have been
i suppose. i have no animosity towards socialists outside
of texas, i just prefer their socialist asses to stay
in their own state(s).

true story.

So did I but we should all acknowledge that Texas has been a leader in e-voting = corporate control. The write ins and third party voting seems to be very under counted in Texas - a boatload of people wrote in RP for president.

As to the list of 12 recommendations. I would generally agree except that I think that legal documents need to be printed in the language of the defendant. I would suggest that instead of kicking spanish out of the schools we should make spanish and french a priority and at least two other languages taught from pre -k on so that Americans can easily do commerce and travel throughout the world. I would also suggest reforming temporary workers permits. Believe it or not, in much of the ag rich and population scarce western part of the state(between el paso and the dry line almost) migrant workers are more like neighbors who will help you pick your pecan orchard and they would prefer to go back and forth. Many rural border areas have a hard time getting green cards for ranch hands which is work that would kill most people - for not much money - the eats are usually good, tho. It's comical to think that the government can come up with a one size fits all immigration policy in which Mexico has the same number of visa's as Zambia.... It blows me away that here near the border - enforcement is tough in town and on the roads and the flir helicoptors and the atvs and dogs and.... and then I go to the big cities and realize that the anonymity and lack of any real enforcement in the city seems to be why most people seem to be up in arms about immigration - it's the violent drug gangs that have gotten me armed.

Oh and as to weed legalization - what's next 29.99 red cherry 8 balls of cocaine at the 7-11? Sure there's money in pot but the real money's in heroin, coke, and speed! Make sure we keep hallucinogenics illegal or they'll realize what they're up to....