Rip the band-aid off, you need stitches....

This would be one article of complete truth that i would completely agree with. With only a few minor additions that i hope you would find accentuate the purpose of this writing. You wrote that your concerns lie souly on the shoulders of texas and her government. Well i would have to say that those days of standing on our own are over. At least in some areas concerning the welfare of the people. Money has been spread thin throughout the different causes and societies that are either trying to help, or just hording the cash for themselves. Being able tell who does help has changed from difficult to down right impossible.
A new view needs to be taken from a nonstagnant eye. The government saw fit to "blackmail" states to get the drinking age they wanted. Well, if they are that concerned about the welfare of those that become intoxicated then they should even more concern for the children that can't. I not preaching for the national government to come in and take over the child welfare department, but at least take a few steps to help those who are making a difference.
A drug war is being fought with no end to the money and personell available to fight it. While a child fights for just a loving embrace, or a warm meal that could have been provided by just a small sum of that drug war money. Our schools dwindle away because teachers aren't paid to care anymore. So lesson plans become lack causing grade scores to falter and, the governments reaction is to shut the school down. While they put those children who didn't have the benefit of learning what they should have, and place them in a place where students who've had the benefits so they learn what feeling inferior is like early in life. Brilliant!!
Wait there's more smart moves to come. A child who can't be cared for at home is placed in a foster home with little to no thought pertaining to the mental effects this has on them. Yet, we can have clinics set up for the woman who keep their children and still suffer seperation anxiety. They child will know what its like to be cared about. The child down the street thats dejected and hurt can call a help line to talk to people who really don't care to talk they just want the paycheck.
Yes, all your concern is just and right. I agree with you wholeheartedly, but unfortunately our government is just not enough anymore. They are going to need a push to save what matters most...our children, and no amounts of votes is going to get them going. So I say its time for a helping hand with a fresh hopeful eye. Not the current closed fist from power blind officials.http://thetexaschild.blogspot.com/2007/11/texas-band-aid_05.html

I agree VOTE NO ON PROP 10

At first I thought it was a joke. I mean really, we’re paying people to come up with the spectacular idea to provide money and devote time to the removal of an office that hasn’t been held in decades. Well I for one believe our teachers’ colleague has the perfect idea. Let’s all get together and vote no on proposition 10. I love the idea of shoving the laziness of such a lack proposal back into the dufus’s face that decided we should spend the money to remove this. The office of animal and hide inspection not only doesn’t exist, it also has no budget. If this is the case the office is in fact nonexistent. I believe not only should we keep this office we should add insult to injury and fill it once again. As a point to prove that ill conceived proposals irreversibly waste voter turnout, time, and money that could obviously be used for a more pressing matter.
Ok all is not lost on me I can understand the want to tidy up the constitution, but seriously, can we not focus on things of a nature that is relevant. With rising population, an expanding amount of crime, and a lack of learning in schools one would be forced to realize that with such ungainly pursuits such as this prop 10 our elected superiors don’t really care. Yes, I realize that there are bills passed in order to help, and sometimes these are in the general best interest. Yet, with a year and a half to prepare said bills before they even reach the table everything is still turned in at the last moment hoping for approval. This type of procrastination is unbelievable, and is what leaves me to believe that prop 10 was just someone’s stupid attempt of passing time so they look busy. For this offense I believe that prop 10 is without a doubt something we should all vote against.
Bring the Office of animal and hide inspectors back online. Give it a budget and a staff. Vote completely against those who would waste our time with non-existent law. Maybe this will prove to them that we are watching, and perhaps light a fire under that nice comfy chair downtown. Who knows these genuine law makers might even bring to light something that might help the common good. Instead of making the ones in power a laughing stock of buffoons. That enjoys sticking their hands into pockets that are already empty. Strike against the imbecilic banter of a dictionary with lips, and vote no on prop 10. Let’s show them all that we care what they spend our valuable time on.