And this will effect you in what way EL????
Kudo's to Governor Perry, of who is now the longest serving Governor in the country right now, for taking a stand against waste.
A couple of things you need to point out, instead selecting your viewpoints, is what these budgets cuts actually are all about.
The draft of the two-year budget was released late Tuesday as Gov. Rick Perry and his supporters were dancing at an inaugural celebration.
Dancing??? Really??? Who actually wrote this article????
The draft generally eliminates financial aid for new college students and ends funding for four community colleges.
Ends "financial aid" for new college students??? Is the author of this article trying push a misconceived fact that no college students in the state of Texas are going to be able to obtain financial assistance to attend college in Texas??? Of course not. Poor choice of wording.
Ends funding for four community colleges?? Got that right.....Not only does it ends the funding, but the State is also going to close those 4 poorly performing small town, out of the way, community colleges. Savings for the overall budget by shutting these 4 community colleges down, $771 Millllllllliioooon Dollars. (sarcasm noted with pinky finger up to lip)
Hell, at this cost, I can guarantee you Perry's office could find and close 4 dozen more little "Community Colleges" all over this state. There is no reason why just about every single community in this state that has a population of 12,000 or more should have a state funded "Community College" in their neighborhood.
Take Howard College for example:
San Angelo Campus
Four Campuses in three different little towns all within 1-2 hours of each other. 2 are in San Angelo, Texas, about an hour from Abilene, Texas.
Now look at all these little state funded Community Colleges in and around Abilene Texas.
abilene texas community colleges - Google Maps
Absolutely boggles the mind......and I bet this is the same amongst all the states out there. I'm not saying we need to eliminate all "Community Colleges" in our states, but we really need to downsize, or centralize, more and more of these little institutions to save state Tax Dollars. I say close down more and more of these off the beaten path community colleges, put a little more money into the larger ones for expansion to handle the students that will come to say, Abilene Texas, and cut our budget even more. Hats off to Governor Perry for starting just this.
The proposal reduces state spending in 2012-13 by almost $14 billion over the current budget. It would mean the loss of 9,600 state jobs over the next two years
9600 people in the state of Texas are NOT about to be unemployed. About 70-80% of this 9600 number are "Positions" within the state of Texas that are currently not filled. Perry's budget is eliminating those "positions", those vacancies, that's all. If the state has been operating effeciently without those people in those vacant positions, then why waste state money to fill those positions??? Major cities all over this country, including right here in the Dallas-Ft Worth area, have been doing just this for the last 2-3-4 years now.
Hawk said:
Just goes to show you that if you are already a Democrat zombie, they don't care about you.
And that is exactly what EnglishLady is........
Why else would he/she be starting up threads concerning issues that does not effect their everyday life, or have any say so whatsoever in, unless their main goal was to discredit successful Conservative agendas every chance they got.
EL took an article that was clearly written by a Perry hater, snipped it to her satisfaction, and posted it here to continue his/her Liberal opinion, that's all. Try another state EL, OK.
