( - promoted by Matt Glazer)
With 644 days left until the 2012 election welcome to Lone Star Left! This is the very first post so lets get started with a number that will make even the staunchest Corporate Republican pour their tea on themselves!
$27,000,000,000.00
That's the amount of money Texas is in the hole for. Boss Perry and the other Corporate Texas Republican's ran their most recent elections on how great the economy was here in Texas and how our conservative policies have kept Texas's unemployment numbers lower than other parts of the country. Those are great talking points, but what will happen to Texas when our legislature has to deal with a twenty seven billion dollar reality?
With education already in their cross hairs, the same good ol' boys who brought us Tuition Deregulation (and the skyrocketing college costs to follow) are now ready to cut pre-school programs across the state!
Talk about a slippery slope! If educating Texans early isn't important then do you really think that Boss Perry will have a conscience when it comes to teacher salaries or programs like Art, One Act Play, Band, and dare I say but would not put it past him FOOTBALL?
Don't forget that with those cuts hard-working Texas educators and building staffs will be out of work, and do you really think that they are just going to stay here in the Lone Star State waiting patiently for Boss Perry and the rest of Stupor Majority to brainstorm a plan? WRONG!
At some point Texans are going to have to suck it up and start funding education in this State, but instead Corporate Republicans are pushing through Voter discrimination legislation, mandated Perrycare which force sonograms into the decision of how a woman should handle her body, and the ever popular attempt of getting guns in the hands of Texas students instead of new, cheaper, and unbiased text books. So as we head into this new session remember that Boss Perry and his compatriots in the Corporate Republican party have a vision for Texas:
POOR AND STUPID!
Until next time, keep your chin up and your chest out - it's great to be a Liberal! |
