TribWeek: Top Texas News for the Week of 11/12/12
Bill filing for the 83rd legislative session kicked off on Monday, and lawmakers filed more than 250 bills on the first day alone. The Tribune has retooled last session's bill tracker and put it to work, pulling in all the legislation that has been filed so far for 2013.
The University of Texas System Board of Regents is considering the construction of a new office building in downtown Austin that is projected to cost $102,417,000.
Ahead of the deadline to decide, Gov. Rick Perry’s office reaffirmed that Texas will not implement a major tenet of federal ...
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David Spratt
Do not worry people,,,, your subsidized health care will still be available. Perry is right to not get the state involved. This will turn out to be the biggest boondoggle ever perpetrated on the American people. The Feds are paying for it,,, so they say,,, and ultimately when it goes belly up the state can rightly deny they had any part in the failure of it.
The Feds are paying the bill ,,, let them run the program. They will run it about as good as they run anything else,, but that is what you want. Daddy Sam ,,,, formerly known as Uncle Sam,,, will take care of you as well as make sure you pay your " Fair Share" if you are found to have funds available.
Unlike the first time around when only the Democrat representatives voted for it and the American people as a whole had no say. This time around the majority of the people actually voted for ObamaCare by voting for the guy it's named after. Every person who voted for Obama basically had a choice ,,,, ObamaCare or no ObamaCare and we know which they chose. Apparently many people are going to be OK with being forced to buy insurance they previously claimed they could not afford,, or pay a tax of $750 per person and still not have insurance. If you have a wife and 2 or three kids and are not living below the acceptable poverty level you will pay,, the ten thousand or so IRS agents being hired just for this purpose will make sure of that !!
The other day there was an article that claimed humans were de- evolving and becoming dumber. I would say I have to agree. No longer are they able to determine how much salt to use, what size soda to buy, whether to eat meat or go meatless on Mondays,,,,, what type of light bulb to buy ,, what type of toilet to take a crap on ,,,, trans fats or no trans fats,,, they have to be warned not to place plastic bags over their heads and tie them shut, not to place their feet under a lawn mower while it is running, and not to use a blow dryer while still taking a shower. Parents can no longer determine what to send in school lunches and food police are a necessary part of life. Marijuana is good ,,, windmills and solar panels are "' New Technology" even though one has been around hundreds of years. Life used to be sacred and now abortion is all the rage and babies are thrown into the trash bin along with yesterdays left overs. What was immoral yesterday now warrants celebration, equal rights and a parade. Free speech is OK as long as it is the " Right Kind" of speech.
Yes people are becoming more stupid every day. Freedom, individual rights and personal responsibility must be managed for them or they will never survive, to reproduce within acceptable governmental limits.