Leaving children behind...

In response to Paul Krugman’s Leaving children behind… in The New York Times (I'm not sure who wrote there oppinon about it in the Austin American's statesman).
　
This article was about how Texas is leaving the children behind for the future. Recently in government everyone is worried about the spending cuts and how it will effect the schools. Mr. Krugman’s idea is talking about how we are going to hurt the students and economy in other ways besides education cut backs.
Krugman is totally right though… All these campaigns to help the children are just talk. They claim to be doing something about it but as said in this article the numbers that are showing the increase of education it really them “miscounting” there for there is no change. They should be more worried about really trying to fix the issue instead of worrying about what departments get the layoffs.
This paragraph is directly from the article…
“Texas likes to portray itself as a model of small government, and indeed it is. Taxes are low, at least if you're in the upper part of the income distribution (taxes on the bottom 40 percent of the population are actually above the national average). Government spending is also low. And to be fair, low taxes might be one reason for the state's rapid population growth, although low housing prices are surely much more important.
But here's the thing: While low spending might sound good in the abstract, what it amounts to in practice is low spending on children, who account directly or indirectly for a large part of government outlays at the state and local level.”
That alone trips me the hell out! For someone like me that doesn’t really know a lot about what’s really going on that puts Texas into a different perspective. Why would the upper income people have lower taxes?? Really that makes sense how? And now they want to cut the funding for Medicaid! Wow! Way to go Texas… I work in healthcare and I honestly see a lot of people that shouldn’t be on it that are…excuse me but if you can own a 2011 Cadillac Escalade with price rims on it you can afford to pay for your children’s insurance. Just my opinion. If saving money is going to be by cutting funding in Medicaid they should stop just giving it out and truly look into who’s on it and why. Medicaid pays already like pennies to the dollar when it comes to the payments to the hospital and doctors. If I was a private Physician I honestly wouldn’t except Medicaid.

Superintendent Salaries

Hello and welcome to my very first blog! Well as I was surfing the suggested sources links on my page I ran across this article "Superintendent Salaries Are a Statewide Problem" by dmatocha.  This to me the title alone says more than enough. 

In the news there is all the talk about state agencies are supposed to cut their next year budget by 10%, which leads them into eliminating positions. Most of Texas schools already have more students in each class than teachers to teach.

 In this article it talks about how superintendent’s salaries and benefits have been steadily increasing instead of freezing or decreasing.  Some of the superintendents in the good old state of Texas salaries range from $200-$300 million. One of the superintendents listed was Nola Wellman, for Eanes ISD, the school pays the income and Medicare taxes for her salary.  This is freaking crazy! How are they going to face the Senate Finance Committee and House Finance Committee and say their going to take teacher and other staff layoffs due to the budget cut? If they are so concerned with the children’s education (like they should be) the superintendents should be having salary cuts, not taking away from are childrens education.