Makes Ya Proud!

Don't it make ya proud? - According to the House and Senate budgets our gov, all elected officials state-wide and the appointed heads of all Texas agencies are going to let our teachers, direct care workers, and other peasants working for the state help with trying to balance the budget by cutting their wages. All the elected officials, etc. - ALL REPUBLICANS - will find all their salaries intact! None of their salaries will be cut!
Thank you workers, for your sacrifice!

The Liberalator

Hey! Let's Cut Teachers' Salaries

Florence Shapiro from Plano (someone from Plano has got to be an R!) wants our lege to allow school districts to be able to cut teacher salaries or furlough them. Why not figure out a way to keep educating our kids so we will have a "well-educated work force" so our state can compete not only nationally but internationally in the future? We can only do that with the help of good, dedicated well educated and qualified teachers.

Right now the salaries of all our teachers, from the best to the poorest rank 32nd in the country. How much lower does our governor and legislators want us to go? Of course the Gov doesn't want to use our Economic Stabilization Fund (better known as "The Rainy Day Fund"), $9.4 billion for use in the next budget for our kids' education - don't ask me why not! And the Gov is sitting on a pot full of cash in his Texas Enterprise Fund that he uses to reward his contributors. There is $295 million to help our schools!

Like ole Warren Chisum from Pampa says our obligation is to the tax payers - let the kids fend for themselves!

The Liberalator

Obligation?

In the Glub News this morning (Feb 1), our wonderful congressmen Warren Chisum, in an article concerning anticipated cuts in education spending (of course we are already last in per capita spending in the country!) was quoted saying "we passed a bill to reduce the burden on the taxpayers. Taxpayers have told us they've had enough taxes. We have an obligation to the taxpayers." So, in a nut shell the repubs running our the Texas gummint feel NO obligation to the children of Texas to give them any kind of education - he is only obligated to the tax payers. This only confirms what I've known all along!

The Liberalator