Supremes Ruled on Obama's Health Care

Now what?

The volatility of the health care market is shown here in TX, but it is the same everywhere. A person can blink, be put in a hospital situation and be forced into bankruptcy and virtually lose everything.

Deregulation is the worst thing for the health care industry because it is a runaway, but the industry and states are clamoring for it, especially here in TX. 

I never thought I would say this, but I am for the federal government as oversight of state health care. We need to be protected. The Feds are certainly not a panacea, but at least it is something, a wall for the industry to hit before it drives away with all our money.

Government's Unemployment Stats Lie

In response to the State [Texas] saying that "Seasonal trends push Austin unemployment rate up to 6.4 percent"

 

It is tiresome and frustrating for us to read over and over again the latest monthly absurd stats on the unemployment rate. Any moron (including media reporters) must know by now that the statistics are wrong.

 

With millions of Texans out of work for years now and who may have stopped looking for work, the statistics don't cover those long-time unemployed.

 

The real numbers must be closer to 15 percent unemployed.

 

So, please, stop insulting our intelligence by regurgitated the stale undercut government unemployment statistics.

Texas economy $ucks!

Texas needs to create jobs

 

 

 

Rick Perry earns $240,000 per year as Governor of Texas, yet millions of Texans are unemployed and can not pay their daily living expenses. 

 

Why aren’t the governor, state legislators and Texas businesses creating public works jobs that would rebuild our ailing infrastructures and create thousands of jobs for Texans who need them?

The endless push for Texas toll roads...

No matter what Texans want or say TxDOT and its special interests continue to push big plans for toll roads in Central Texas and beyond.

 

While the ruling GOP always say "No New Taxes" what are tolls if not new taxes?

Furthermore, toll roads seldom fix the traffic problems we are told they will and they consistently provide long term debt to Texas taxpayers and drivers.

 

In addition, once toll roads are established they generally remain forever, even after the roadways are paid for.

 

Texans need to speak up against toll roads. If top level TxDOT administrators would not be getting astronomical salaries and if legislators would stop diverting the gasoline tax for special interest whims, there would be enough tax dollars to build and repair our roadways without tolls.

Texas Education Refinancing Law Suit Continues

The state and the courts continue to play a 1 decade long game with our children's public education.

 

The State Constitution says that the State must provide a quality education for Texas children and that includes paying for it with tax dollars and not to continue to divert education dollars for other special interest whims.

 

The Governor, House Reps and Senators are little more than criminals who have diverted their constitutional responsibility onto local governments who in turn have overburdened homeowners who must pay 80 percent of their property taxes for public education.

 

Even then the state sends money collected in one district to another if the districts are termed rich or poor districts. These days EVERY district is poor and the Robin Hood Clause should be thrown out of the system.

 

The State is guilty of irresponsibly and criminally destroying the public education system in Texas. The GOP in Texas simply doesn't want Public Education to succeed and it certainly doesn't want to provide the tax dollars for financing it.

GOP too stupid and self-destructive to win National Election?

Perhaps being too arrogant, waving a red-neck mentality and blatantly not caring about the majority of Americans will seal the GOP’s doom in the upcoming November National Election. After all, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

 

The GOP doesn’t even have the sensibility to pretend it gives a damn about the majority of Americans. Just say you care and then after you win go on with the usual idiotic platforms and policies that will alienate more Americans from the once proud party of Dwight Eisenhower through the modern time of Ronald Reagan. The GOP today doesn’t have a clue on any meaningful direction to improve an ailing America. 

 

The GOP doesn’t care about public education, improving economic times for all Americans and providing affordable and quality health care to Americans who need and want it. How could such an out-of-touch party win the 2012 Presidential Election? It could win only if the majority of Americans are as stupid and mean-spirited as the leaders of the current GOP are.

 

The GOP is a proven no-winner and it will continue to lose in November 2012.

Texas Searches for a New Public Education Leader

Good luck with that

After spending 1/4 of my work life in public education I learned that it takes much more than one leader to move education into the 21st Century.

 

The problem usually stems from the fact that the wrong people are in control of public education and they try to run it like a business, which it isn't. They usually fail and apparently, they want it to fail.

In this state we have a governor and school board that do not care a hill o’ beans about real education and learning for learning's sake. Test scores are the obelisks of our educational learning outcomes.

Politics and mismanagement have ruined public education and will continue to do so until angry Texans run a collective giant-size Texas boot up state government's butt, demanding that it finally "let our children go!"

In response to the Austin American Statesman article, "Study calls for hiring 250 police personnel over next five years" 

 

Texans need to secure their cities and towns to ensure healthy growth, providing safe future homes for our children's children. One way we can do so is to use a small part of the Rainy Day Fund that Gov. Rick Perry and his merry band of legislators continue to guard from use, apparently presuming that one day it will all be needed to rebuild Noah's Ark when the great flood returns. 

 

Use some common sense. Austin property taxes rose 38 percent in the past decade. We can't keep adding taxes for homeowners to bear.

 

A smart way to provide the police and fire security we need over time is to use a small part of the Rainy Day Fund and stop politicians from hanging the slush fund threateningly over our heads and the heads of opposing forces whenever it works for them to do so.

More False Unemployment Information

In response to the article in the Austin American Statesman, "Better job numbers for Texas means decrease in benefits for unemployed"...

 

Texans are being scammed again by state government, this time it is in their unemployed wallets, in which cob webs now replace the dollar bills once held inside.

 

Government job statistics have marred the realities of market. The stats show unemployment down, BUT IN TRUTH, the job market is in much worse health. Millions of Texans have been without work for several years now. They are NOT counted in the Government's Unemployment Totals.

 

Job statistics lie and manipulate the system, which supports government and NOT the unemployed.

Case in point is that those most recently unemployed will soon have no benefits.

 

A good question is that what will Texas do with all the unemployed who can't find employment roaming its streets?

 

Republicans become indignant to Obama's immigration policy

In response to the indignation, "Texas Republicans decry Obama order, call it 'amnesty'"...

 

It's nice to see that the Texas GOP has a sense of humor. Here in Texas our own beloved Governor Rick Perry has for many years been offering amnesty and free education to sons and daughters of illegal immigrants.

 

Now that President Obama is planning amnesty via free education on a national level it sets off the whining of the Texas GOP.

 

Americans should not add free education to the long list of what we taxpayers are shelling out to illegals and their children, e.g., health and social services, etc. If we Americans tried to get the same services in Mexico illegally we would be thrown in jail and/or sent back to the US. Both Democrats AND Republicans are guilty of doing the same thing and it is a huge cost to taxpayers.