We are condemning our children

We are condemning them to a lifetime of failure.

We are condemning them to a world full of uneducated, illiterate children

We are condemning them to poverty

We are condemning them to jails

We are condemning them to a hopeless future filled with all the wrong things.

We are condemning them to a life without. Music. Art. History.



You think it is bad now? Wait until the budget cuts really kick in. there is a budget shortfall built into the system already. Years ago the budget was sabotaged by the Republicans governing Texas at that time.



This shortfall will only get worse.

Why?

The people in power are refusing to pay their taxes, sucking up as much ad they can of the taxpayers money in the form of subsidies, polluting our atmosphere, our water, our earth for the almighty dollar. Ant we don’t even get any of the dollars.

They are reserved for the very richest.

But that is another subject.



Our children are not getting the funding they need let alone the funding they deserve.

We can fund the bridge across the lake to literally nowhere, but we have to cut funding for our children?

We can spend millions to refurbish the Governors’ mansion, but we have to close schools?

We can pay oil companies to take our money and raise our prices, but we cannot have music or the arts in our classrooms?

We subsidize the power plants to take our money and pollute our atmosphere. We give them billions of dollars for research, and the best they can come up with it to ‘bury the gas underground?’ and ‘how to make money off of filthy coal without people knowing that filthy coal is lignite”

They make quite enough profit off our backs as it is.



Take away all their subsidies.

They don’t need them. They use them to buy our politicians and to repress our children and us.

They use them to keep us in slavery.

They use them to imprison those who do not agree with them. They use them to condemn to death people who need transplants.

Why are we allowing this? The people who live in this country absolutely can afford to take care of its children, its seniors, its disabled.



Not while we are supporting the filthy rich at the same time.



The Republicans rejoiced when they defeated the Democrats tax bill. The one that would raise taxes on the very wealthy 3%, remember, all you people who voted Republican?



This was such a huge victory.



For the super rich.

It was certainly not a victory for our children.

It was not a victory for the seniors.

It was not a victory for the disabled.



Who’s fault is it?

That is obvious.

Does it matter?

Not at this time.

What does?

Who are we going to support? Who are we going to vote for?

Our children, our grandchildren?

Or the politicians who got us here by selling us out to the mega rich, while micromanaging our personal lives, deregulating businesses so they could screw over their customers better, and then believing we are so stupid that we will believe it when they say they are for ‘small government’.



This is a lie.

The only ‘small government’ they are for is the government that has just overseen the systematic looting of the American people for the last 50 years of Republican agenda.

Wake up, people. Or your children just may not.

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.

SuperBowl Sunday - Texas Martial Laws

SuperBowl Sunday - Texas Martial Laws



There is a festive feeling in the air this Superbowl weekend. Fans are checking out the weather forecasts for their trip to Dallas, Texas. They will bring snacks and buy beer and add to the “great economy of the great state of Texas.” or so the politicians hope.



http://www.kvue.com/home/Ticket-for-wearing-too-much-perfume--Austin-student-says-yes-115342884.html



They will probably be right. After all, there are a LOT of Steelers and Packer fans that will willingly spend thousands of dollars booking rooms and buying NFL items and probably put a million into the cash register, or more.

Why not? The Super bowl is probably going to be a great game. The Cowboy’s Stadium is brand new, or near enough.

However, perhaps the people who go to the super bowl are not realizing just whom they are supporting.

I refer, amongst others, the ‘Great State of Texas’ s Educational program.

A program which , along with other measures, allows each individual school hire it’s own security and deem that they have the same powers as policemen. This security is obtained from private security companies.



Now, I have worked for private security companies before. Two of them, both in Texas, although not at the Cowboy stadium, nor in Dallas. I do know from conversations with other ‘security officers’ that the conditions at many of the other security companies was similar to the ones I worked for though.



Not to put to fine a point on it, but I certainly would not hire either company to safe guard my children. I would not hire them to safe guard a flat tire. I would not trust either one across the street. Nor any of the ones I heard of.



This would be here nor there, but we seem to have a government in Texas that believe the school security officers have a right to arrest, yes, arrest, our children, haul them to criminal court, fine them up to $500, and book them with a class C misdemeanor that will stay on their permanent records for their whole lives.



The great government of Texas, in it’s infinite wisdom, passed a bill called “ Chapter 37 and added it to the Statutes of Education that says a student can be arrested for ‘bad behavior’ and given a ticket and put into the criminal justice system. What in the world would be so bad as to give a ten year old or younger child a record for life?

How about--say, to much perfume?

This is what one thirteen year old got a hundred and fifty dollar fine for, also a trip to criminal court and charged with a class C mist miner.



You can view the whole story on this webpage ( it is KVUE NEWS out of Austin, Texas.



http://www.kvue.com/home/Ticket-for-wearing-too-much-perfume--Austin-student-says-yes-115342884.html



What in the world are we doing to our children? Why are they in a concentration camp where cursing can get them a ticket, 3 class C misdemeanors for bad behavior leads to a habitual offender charge which can be either a first degree misdemeanor or a felony. This can very well lead to a denial for a job, college, and so on.

Why have we allowed this to happen?



There is presently a movement on in Austin, texas to change this barbaric and ill conceived law. This movement would raise the age of possible tickets and criminal charges to 14.



I am sorry. I do not believe in sending our children to jail for being children. For swearing, for throwing

Rolling Blackout

While Egypt struggles for their freedom, and National Signing Day is here for football, much of America is shivering in the freezing cold.

Even though it is the second winter in a row that snow has shut down airports, we still do not seem to be prepared.

It does seem that climate change is coming faster than we will adapt to it. Many still do not believe that it is here. Don't worry, the doubting Thomas-es will soon be convinced.

In the meantime, we have rolling blackouts, total electrical failures, and frigid temperatures to contend with.

What actually boggles my mind a bit(not much seeing as so many seem so dead set against the poor and elderly) that they let Senior Citizens homes, residences who have elderly and babies, freeze in the cold while they worry that businesses cannot do business because of the electric failure.

How many people will freeze to death in their homes while the rolling blackouts continue? How many homeless will not make it through this night, let alone this winter?

Do we know?

Will we know??

Does anyone even care???

The electric was off for hours at my child's school. Something they did not seem to think the parents should be made aware of, evidently, as no one called. There was no heat on the bus either, when the children finally came home from a freezing school, and an ice covered freezing bus they were very, very cold.

So when the children start hitting the Drs and Hospital emergency rooms with pneumonia, perhaps the great politicians who are supposedly looking out for us, can cut more out of health care and medicaid, after all, we cannot afford to keep people alive and healthy.

Certainly not our kids.

Par for their course, and another mind boggler.