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The Texas Legislature has completed its 2005 session and Texans are embarrassed at the 4.6 million dollar waste their senators and representatives have expended in one of the most time wasting sessions of Texas history. The Governor ordered multiple 'special sessions' for this lame legislature to perform its constitutional mandate for the State's responsibility of 'support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools' (i.e. school finance), to provide for long overdue teacher pay increases, and to reduce the burden of school taxes being based on local property taxes. This comes on the heels of court decisions that the present method being used is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! All Content Republic of Texas Copyright Pending Please send bug reports to the Webmaster .
The legislature left the sessions in disgrace, without correcting the UNCONSTITUTIONAL method of providing for public free schools, without providing the appropriations to finance the public schools, without bothering to increase wages of the teachers, and without reducing the burden of unbearable local property based taxes. This legislature is guilty of dereliction of duty. It was the most impotent congress in Austin in memory.
The middle finger was given to Texans, given to our children, given to our schools, given to our teachers, and given to our future.
However, the legislature did manage to pad the pocket of the judges once again, far above any reasonable cost of living raises, with a whopping 22% salary increase. They did increase the salary of the governor, comptroller, and other high positions by 20% and more. This legislature did increase their own retirement package to equal 500% of regular legislator salary.
Most Texans will not see a 22% increase in their salary-wages, but the foxes have made sure that the foxes will get a huge increase in salaries and benefits.
The foxes are in charge of the hen-house!
Another milestone for the 2005 impotent legislature was the cheerleader butt fiasco, and placing the 'gay' marriage matter into a constitutional amendment process, knowing the amendment itself violates the Texas Bill of Rights (Texas Constitution Art. 1), and with the foreknowledge that the Feds will have to eventually overturn the amendment if passed. How many millions, nay, billions will be wasted on this non-government matter? Who may or may not marry is not a governmental issue! Such a matter has nothing whatsoever to do with governance, but has everything to do with CONTROL.
This researcher interviewed a Texas teacher, one who is considering changing careers due to the low income received as a teacher. This single teacher lives in a modestly priced apartment, has no car payments, and relatively few expenses beyond the normal expenses we all have to face. After this teacher pays her rent and miscellaneous bills, and if and only if gas does not rise above $2.50 per gallon, she will have seven cents left in spendable income. Yes, she is looking at being forced to make a career change, though her heart is in the classroom.
Texas teachers, Texas Legislators, Texas Judges, Texas Governors, Texas Comptrollers, et. al. should be the highest paid in all of North America, but so should the average Texas worker!
The Legislature continues to endorse the most inefficient system of public free schools. The district taxation and the school district system is a complete failure. School superintendents that make income far above the average constituency of the districts are stealing from all of us as they freely fill their cars from the gas pumps intended for the school buses. Did even one legislator propose scrapping this inefficient system? Anytime there is duplication of expenses and efforts is a waste of taxpayer money. With over 1000 districts how many efforts are duplicated?
The district system fails to provide the general diffusion of knowledge fairly in dollars with rich districts pitted against poor districts. Texans in rich districts are taxed unfairly on hypothetical 'so-called' property values and the money is sent to poor districts, in violation of the constitution. The school district system has become unwieldy and inefficient. The district's power to tax has been abused till Texans should be revolting against the unfair taxation, but Texans have had a love affair, historically, with education and have tolerated these abuses.
This legislature had not only the opportunity, but the obligation, to completely overhaul the method by which the school system is financed. However, this legislature was so impotent that even Viagra couldn't help them. Instead they had a 200 day wanking session, wasting 4.6 million dollars, and only came up with a mess on their hands. This legislature did not overhaul school finance system, did not bring taxation for the schools back within the parameters of our constitution, did not raise salaries fairly, across the board, for not only judges but teachers and other state employees, and did not reduce the taxation on property to finance the school system.
Texans have gotten the Middle Finger from the Legislature. We paid for results at a hefty price, and got nothing.
Now from the Texas Judiciary we are hearing rumors that they will decide HOW to accomplish what the legislature didn't! By what right, by what constitutional authority does the judiciary have concerning itself with legislation?
From the Texas Executive branch we have a comptroller that has been interfering in the Legislative branch and its duties. We have a governor that PRESUMES to have Executive Power authority, ordering the school districts to raise teacher salaries at the local level without providing funding.
The districts are attempting to once again RAISE property taxes, only making the problem of unconstitutional taxation for schools compounded. The superintendents continue to make exorbitant salaries and continue to fill their cars up with gas for free at the bus barns.
Texans are getting the Middle Finger from all involved in this Legislative incompetence.
Lest anyone forget: Texas has OIL. Texas has GAS. Texas should not be suffering from lack of money! Texas teachers should not be low paid, Texas Judges should not have to 'ask' for needed raises, Texas Legislators should not have to be 'looking' for money to pay for our schools. Texas has the resources! Why doesn't it have the money?
The oil that greases the wheels in Washington DC - comes from Texas and it is being wasted at incredible speed at a time when Texas needs to keep all its resources for Texans! Texas needs ALL the revenue from its oil and gas to keep Texans, safe, healthy, and working. At a time when the oil producing nations are making money hand over fist with these abnormally HIGH oil prices, Texas the oil producer of North America can't find the money to fund it's schools?
At a time when gasoline is double in price from a year ago, we hear about refinery closures in Texas! How can this be? And why?
It is time for the Texas Legislature to finally say enough is enough. We can make it on our own. We don't need the United States using and benefiting from Texas resources.
Think of how Texas would benefit if the oil and gas in Texas were nationalized under the nation of Texas. The sale of the oil to benefit our Texas governments and schools would reduce all our taxes to almost nothing - as it is in most Middle East countries.
Our Texas is being raped of its natural resources by the U.S. and other foreign nations (such as British Petroleum) and denied the wealth it should be receiving from its own resources.
It's time for a change. It's time for a revolution. It's time for Texans to take charge of their resources, and their destiny. It's time for Texas to benefit from the money derived from its own oil and gas.
Texas has become a welfare state of the union, when it should be the Lone Star rising; rising in wealth and wisdom.
It's time for the Texas Independence Movement to step up to the forefront and let Texans make Texas self sufficient once again.
L. SavageIt's Time For A Change!
Let's Stop the Madness!
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