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Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
I recently found out that the Texas State Guard basically is the state militia. It’s standards of becoming a part of it is much like the regular military does. This makes it hard for some veterans who has injuries that prevent them from joining. I do not have nearly as bad of injuries as most veterans, but it’s enough to prevent entry.
As far as getting the word out to veterans, the VA Regional center in Waco should be able to give the names and addresses of veterans in Texas. Not sure but I see no reason to release that information to the Govenor.
Tim Miller
Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
Wow! I did not know that!
Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
Ms. Lambeth,
While it is a federal law, so is the Affordable Care Act and Texas has already taken steps to not follow it so why should this be any different?
Just curious.Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
I also forgot to post that I agree with Mr. Berglund and his comments.
Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
Ms. Lambeth,
I apologize for not responding sooner, I have been very busy with my college classes. To answer your question, I am not sure if it is the Rainy Day Fund or not. I may need to go find the article again but I believe it said we had a $9 billion surplus for the state. Now while I do believe that we need a Rainy Day Fund, my thoughts are that we built that much up before and we can do it again. Texas must lead the country in border safety. I am by no means the one to come to on politics and how things are being done or need to be done. I don’t know how we built up a surplus nor how easy/hard it would be to build back up but it was an idea that I think should be considered.
As far as the Veterans outreach program I believe that the federal government has already proven that they can not handle the job of securing the border. They, both sides, have been saying something about it but has nothing to show for it more than words. I really would like to see a Texas owned and operated security force for the border and hire exclusively veterans with an Honorable Discharge. I personally, if my wife could get a teaching job near the border, would love to be a part of that force, being a Marine myself. This force could also serve as the “standing state militia” that is our right via the Constitution. The “National Guard” is not our militia because it is run by the federal government, this entity must be separate from the federal government and the Governor and Attorney General should be the ones they answer to in order to maintain our security.
I hope that this makes sense and seems like a reasonable idea.
Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
Also, as far as “if you don’t like the school, move” I’m sure someone is thinking something along the lines of “what if they can’t afford to move?” My response to that would be that as a parent, you should have researched the school before you moved into that area. It was after all your choice to move there. If one Domino’s has a problem with it’s staff do you shut down all the Domino’s in the state? No, you handle that store as a separate entity. We are after all comparing free markets right? You can not compare one direction but not the other. If a school is having problems, you deal with that school and fix it. This all goes back to the “one size fits all” solutions that many people here don’t like the President doing so why would you want it done on this level?
Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
Yes, we were founded on freedom of choice. However, vouchers take money away from small schools who are already struggling financially mainly do to the small towns they are in. What nobody here is thinking about, or choosing to ignore, are the parents who don’t care about how their kids are doing in school. The number of those types of parents is not a small one, the current generation of parents are more concerned with themselves and it will only get worse as parents continue to be younger than parents were back when “the basics” were common sense. Vouchers will leave those kids, the ones with parents who are not involved in their education, in the dust and set them up for failure in more ways than one. In our ever evolving world, technology plays a huge role in education. These vouchers take away the much needed funds for the school to be able to purchase technology to keep the kids up to date and create students who graduate that are the types of people needed to go into jobs who use technology. If you take a child from a school that has minimal funding and they graduate, if they graduate at all, they will not be able to even attempt to go to college or understand how to operate equipment more complicated than a McDonald’s register. Instead of having something that punishes schools and teachers by taking that funding away how about you find incentives that help create competition? All I am hearing here is to punish people who have no way of defending themselves. These comments here that are “worthy of discussion” do nothing more than complain and do not offer any solutions other than to take money away from schools they don’t find “good.” I’m sure if you did something at work that your consumers didn’t like you would be fine with having some of your pay taken away right?
Timothy Matthew Miller, 10 years ago
Vouchers are not the answer to fixing education. The problem is the TEA having people in charge of education who have never taught a day in their lives! Lawyers should not be dictating what is taught, teachers who have taught for MANY years need to be in those positions. Vouchers KILL small schools by taking funding away from them when the funding provides top of the line technology and the ability to pay higher which attracts higher quality teachers. You take that funding away and of course your going to get bottom of the barrel teachers that no other schools want. How else do you think you will weed out the bad teachers other than to make the school appealing to teachers who are highly trained? GET RID OF VOUCHERS! If you don’t like the school system then move to an area who’s taxes go to what you feel is a “better school!”
