Well there's one easy way to raise their rank: trick everyone else into cutting back too.
edited 27th Jan '11 11:31:28 AM by storyyeller
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayNoooooooooooo, they'll grow up to be fat chicks. D:
Fight smart, not fair.Big hips + Texan accent = Hell Yes
Fix all the other problems, leave that alone.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.I disagree, but that's neither here nor there.
Economically, I like Texan policies, they have done better in the recession than most states.
I like their gun laws.
I hate their tampering with the educational system and involving the bible so much.
I really like their home defense laws, when I was last in San Antonio I heard a report at least once or twice a week about some burglar getting shot in the face while breaking into someones home. It's especially hilarious when it's some 80-something year old lady who does it.
Hips are Hartman Hips, Baby Got Back is booty.
I can't help but notice that
^Or it could be referring to those who need mental health care who are not getting it. The article doesn't say, so far as I can tell
My troper wallHey, I like Hartman Hips. My wife has them now, after having two kids - pregnancy actually helped her figure a lot.
Anyway, Is Texas too big (land area and population-wise) to manage as just one state? Would there be some sort of way to divvy up the state into more manageable sub-states? I'd be for more stars on the flag.
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.Yes, there's some rule somewhere about splitting up into like five different states or something. I'm vaguely remembering stuff from class.
pvtnum, you're aware of Mexicos illegal immigration problem at their southern border?
Fight smart, not fair.Texas was facing a $6.6 billion deficit for 2010, third worst in the country, IIRC.
Guess how they fixed it? With $6.4 billion from the Recovery Act
that Texas Gov. Perry has continually slammed.
Okay, so they're only 200 mil in the hole, right...? I wouldn't be surprised if you said the deficit figure was many times larger than that, though. Sometimes it sucks to be optipessimistic - looking forward to seeing the bad in situations...
Mexico's southern border is smaller than their northern one. Easier to protect and stuff. Of course, if we anexed Mexico, the whole world will cry ZOMG IMPERIALISM and well, that stuff is so 19th century.
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

Texas Children: Canaries in the Coal Mine
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The 76-page report, drawing upon Census data, demographic forecasts and national and state data sources, finds Texas is on a course for stunning economic failure unless it closes gaps in well-being for the child population, especially Hispanic children. “A sick, uneducated, unskilled work force does not propel a state forward,” Garcia writes in the report’s preface. “The devastating forecasts depict a Texas that few of us would want to visit, let alone call home.” The bi-annual Texas legislative session opened this month to news of an estimated $27 billion budget shortfall. But even before legislators took their seats in the capitol, Texas lagged every other state in per-capita spending. Before considering budget-cutting proposals, Texas also ranked 50th among states in health care coverage for children, mental health services for children with diagnosed challenges, preventing childhood homelessness, preventing childhood food insecurity, and preventing obesity among adolescent girls, according to the report. The cumulative impact of previous budget cuts has put Texas children behind the rest of the nation. When compared to children in the rest of the U.S., a Texas child is 93 percent more likely not to have access to health care, 33 percent more likely not to receive mental health care services, 35 percent more likely to grow up poor, and 16 percent more likely to drop out of school. Given that Texas is not a poor state — its citizens’ median wealth ranks 27th out of 50 — the dire status of its children is all the more startling.