Balanced Budget

We seem to have a bit of a problem with our national bookkeeping.

They tell us that we owe way to much money, and we are getting in deeper. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that what the register on the checkbook is for?

Why is it that lawmakers always want to balance the budget on the backs of the poor? Could it be that they believe the poor people have no voice?

In Texas they are almost through taking away as much as they can in social services. Now it is time to start closing schools.

In Austin they are looking at a dozen schools to close.

The odd part is, some of the schools are excellent schools. Some of them are poo schools, some not.

It is outrageous that the politicians who run our state cannot think of any place else to cut.

Like the billions of dollars we spend keeping people locked in prisons for non-violent crimes.

That is right, Texas is cutting spending on prisons. Yes, they are going to cut out the medical care, after all, why would you need any kind of medicine in a prison? And, they are talking of taking away a meal a day on the weekends.

Why don't they just give it up?

You cannot jail 2/3rds of the people, and have the other third guard them. This is ridiculous.

We should have the politicians in jail. Then it would become a much nicer place. We should have the politicians going to school also. That would make it a much nicer place.

That is what they are up to. They are going to move the schools to the jails!

That way when your child is cited for bad behavior, they are already in the jail to learn how to show good behavior. Isn't that what jails, eer or schools for?

This is what your tax dollars are used for.