Lets Find You A Job

Some veterans have a hard time finding a job when they are coming home from their services. The Texas rate of unemployed veterans is 5.5% and 6.8% nationwide. Over the pass few years Texas has tried to pay special attention to help get returning soldiers a job when they come home. The US House of Veterans' Affair Subcommittee had a recent field hearing in Waco to survey the new approaches to help the veterans. There were businesses that spoke up about hiring veterans and or are willing to hire veterans.

There is The Post-9/11 GI Bill that also helps veterans have financial support for and education. A&M University and Baylor are trying to be more “military friendly”. There are places and many programs that are available for returning soldiers. It still doesn't seem enough; the veterans are still struggling to find employment.

The programs don’t seem to reach out to enough veterans to help them find a job or allow them to get an education to help them get a job. There are still homeless veterans, and veterans struggling to find a job to support themselves or there families. There should be more “military friendly” employment available for the veterans and there are work programs to for military at Workforce. 

The services that the military have done for us risking there lives and when they come back we can even give them a stable job to support there families. Texas is trying to help but the veterans unemployment rate has to get lower; it should not be so hard for the veterans to get a job. 

Comments On Texas' Water Conservation

In one of my classmates article The World On A Political Scale she talked about the water conservation in Texas. She talks about how the water issue that we are having right now in Texas, how we are in a stage 2 drought, and all the ways that we can reduce our water wastage. She wants the government to take an extra to enforcing the rules that they set to actually help the water problem, and I agree with her.

Everyone uses water, it is one of the main resources that people need to survive, the 70% of earth is made up of water but that doesn't mean people could just waste it all. My classmate make a very nice point on how people are still watering their lawns, washing their cars, and taking hour long shower when we are clearly in a drought. The government needs to be more strict on all of the drought law due to the fact that we do not get rain. 

She also talks about how the government could be stricter on the water laws like the weekly checks to see if we are not using too much water. Which seems fine because people wouldn't not take any of the water laws seriously unless the get a ticket or when the water runs out, and at the water rates now that could happen soon. I can agree with the argument that Ms. Clark in her Texas Water Conservation article.

Abortion in Texas?

            Abortion is one of the many topics that seem to be a very touchy subject to talk about in Texas. There was a large battle during the summer about women having the right to have the option of abortion. House Bill 2 that was enforced on October 29th requires the doctors that are performing the abortion surgery have hospital admitting privilege within 30 miles of the facility, and that doctors follows the FDA regimen, rather than commonly used evidence-based protocol, for drug-induced abortions. Which I think is a good bill because it still allows abortions in Texas, and it still gives women a choice. The only hassle is that most of the planned parenthood that performed the abortions don't meet the requirements so they no longer able to have abortions there. Most people were kind of upset about this because they couldn't go somewhere easy to get there business done. Judge Lee Yeakel wanted to reverse the House Bill because the requirements of the facility having the hospital admitting privilege is an undue burden for the women. Which yes it will make it more complicated for an abortion but not having this Bill will just allow any clinic to perform the surgery. It is always better safe than sorry in my opinion. Abortion would never be my first choice and it would probably never be a choice in my life but having that option still floating around would be nice. In Texas people are very good at taking their religion and opinion and shoving it down other people's throats. This Bill is kind of a tie for the abortion battle because abortion facilities are closing but there are still some facilities that are still open that are going to be much safer to go to. I think that they should just leave the House Bill 2 it's not making abortion illegal it is making it safer.

Proposition 8? Property Tax?

 The article that I found was Rio Grande Valley Needs Proposition 8 at My San Antonio. The article talks about how we need to vote for proposition 8, but tells us how the new proposition will effect our taxes. Proposition 8 wants to make Hidgalo County a hospital district by adding a medical school in that region, so it could help the one of the most medically undeserved and economically disadvantaged region in the state of Texas. It is a very rural region where there is a high rate of uninsured people. It seems like a legit plan but it will repeal one of the amendments that restrict the legistuture to taxing a maximum of 10 cents per 100 dollars. If the law is passed it would allow the maximum tax rate to be 75 cents.
It seems like this proposition is going to be a very hard one to vote for because we can not just leave the Hidaglo County to be the largest county without a hospital, but the property tax will sky rocket if we do. There is no winning with this proposition. It seems more important if there is a hospital than not having a high tax rate. The tax is just another price to pay for health. This proposition would not effect most Texans directly but it seems it will help out the Rio Grande Valley so I would vote for this proposition. I am know I would not be effected because I do not have to worry about that property tax but to the people that it does effect it seems to be a hard decision to make. On the other hand is your well-being have a cost? This is going to be a hard choice but I think that the health-care would be more important.

"Dysfunctional On Insurance"

On October, 7, 2013 My San Antonio published "Texas is dysfunctional on insurance". The article is about how Texas had chosen not to expand the Medicaid to the adults in Texas and how it will effect the Texas's rates of families and working adults being insured or not. The article shows how the author he feels about Texas and sarcastically "thanks" Texas for the upcoming problems that will happen because of the choice of not expanding Medicaid for the working adults in Texas. The author focus on the showing the statics and uses it as his or her argument. The article made a point about how the Texas would try to take the cheap and easy way out. The author's main argument is that Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people. The author also brought up the other states that did not approve the Affordable Care Act and compared the rates of uninsured people. It shows a large number altogether but Texas still had the bigger number in uninsured. At the end of the article the author talks about how this is one of the examples of the dysfunctional government and Texas is the leader of the "pack". This article showed me a piece of how the government seems to work. It proved a point on how Texas rates are not going to be any better if things keep going the way that it is going now. The author gave me a little bit of his feeling towards the Texas's government that kind of help his argument with me. This article was a good opinion article to me I would side with the author. The author seems to be tired of all the fuss that Texas is making and he is showing his feelings in the article.

Texas Uninsured? Again?

The article that I found was published on September 18 2013, it was Texas Again Has Highest Uninsured Rate In Nation by Becca Aaronson. To summarize the article Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people and the highest rate of uninsured children. More than 825,000 children are uninsured in Texas, California has around 2.2 million more children but they have around 108,000 more insured children. Texas also has the highest rate of adults making below 138% federal poverty threshold. Single adults would make under $15,415 a year or $26,344 for a family of three. 55% of the people are uninsured, they could be eligible for Medicaid if Texas expanded the eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. People should read this article because it shows how there are many uninsured families in Texas, but Texas still isn't willing to expand the "Obamacare" to help the familes.