As the nation sinks, our state desperatly tries to keep itself afloat in an ocean of financial woes. So what is our state government doing to keep this sinking ship from going under? Well the answer to that question is quite simple; budget reforms and cuts.
After many hours of deliberation, the Texas Legislature and Governor Perry have agreed on a solution to lessen the states spending during the 82nd Texas Legislature. These "solutions" call for numerous budget cuts across the board, but one in particular will have a devastating affect on the minds of the future.
As students and faculty of any educational institution, you probably have heard or seen what I believe as a grave mistake by both the state government and ourselves. For at least 2 years the state will spend less in the area of Education, meaning that a number of teachers will find themselves jobless and the growth of public education will become stagnant.
This also does not bode well for students attending higher education institutions as grants and financial aid have also come under scrutiny. With less additional money to go around, receiving aid will become a difficult process and the rise of tuition might lead some to postpone going to college altogether.
So this is what our state government has decided for us? To postpone the future instead of finding better means to raise revenue (ie. taxes). This year will be marked in history by Texas' failure as a state to come up with a legitimate effort to downsized the states deficit.
2 more years of this absurdity and hopefully in the next Texas Legislature someone might come up with a better alternative, but for the moment we, the future, will have to suffer for their decisions.
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