Some say state lawmakers' cuts to family planning funding in 2011 cost the state more than it saved because it had to pay to cover additional pregnancies through Medicaid. State Rep. Sarah Davis, R-West University Place, wants to quantify that.
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Stella Fitzgibbons
Some of us don't have time to sit around all day browsing through audio and video files. Can you please just tell us what the bill SAYS?
Dormand Long
The taxpayer citizens of the State of Texas will have to bear the burden of the incremental social welfare costs of these unwanted babies for the next seventy years, as they burden our emergency rooms, our criminal justice systems, and other bottom feeding segments of society.
Those who profit immensely from the agony of those at the bottom rungs of society will relish these additional hundreds of thousands of vulnerable and incapable to prey upon with their various ploys including
* slum lord rentals
* predatory lending including payday loans, car title lending, furniture store accounts and their rule of 76 that never get paid off buy accrue immense amounts of interest, & subprime morgages.
* jobs that fail to develop employees yet damage their health and self-esteem
* lotteries and casinos
* overpriced low quality retailers
* tote the note car lots
* hospitals that charge minibar prices for uninsured patients, who then clot bankruptcy courts
Samdavis
In other words, the GOP party base