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To: Brumar89 who wrote (619816)	7/17/2011 7:33:31 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576628

Yes, Brumar, TX has had that reputation......for years. This is what your frigging state legislature did recently: The Tea Party—mad [Texas] chamber voted to balance the ledger without raising revenues, axing $23 billion from current spending levels—about one-fourth of the state’s current spending, and some of the deepest cuts contemplated anywhere in the country. Spending cuts to public schools, already among the nation’s most poorly funded, could mean some 100,000 teacher layoffs, pre-K programs decimated and schools closed. Huge cuts to Medicaid could push an estimated 60,000 senior citizens out of their nursing homes. “We’re already as a state fiftieth in per capita spending,” said another young San Antonio Democrat, Representative Joaquin Castro. “So you’ve got to ask yourself…at what point is this budget akin to asking an anorexic person to lose more weight?” Hundreds of citizens gave impassioned testimony about the mental health and home healthcare programs, and the drug rehabilitation, juvenile justice and early education efforts that were about to be gutted. The situation was so dire that one conservative Republican came to ask for his taxes to be raised. Now what do you think the poor are going to do with the above news? They have no choice but to leave. Texas has been doing this periodically for years. The states that surround Texas are very familiar with the state's tactics. Its why its called Texass. Its how Texas manages to stay ahead of the game.