What My Own Eyes See of the Government in Texas

Government means to me, structure and an outline of what we need to be doing.  If we didn't have government, then what would we be as a state? Could we be as civilized as we are now? I doubt it. Some people may disagree with the government and I think we all do at some point. I know quite a few people that would like to give Rick Perry the boot this time around and start with something new. Me personally, I want a change. I think Perry has done a lot for us as a state, but I think that we need more change now in these times. I will have to give congrats to Perry for giving us so many jobs over the time that he has been in office.

I know right now there is a lot of early voting going on and I feel that if you have the right to vote, then EVERYONE needs to vote.  Me personally, having never voted, feel the need to start interacting with our government and learning more about it.  Someday, those seats will be filled with people in my generation and if more people don't step up now, there might not be a government in the future. A lot of people think that it's all about what the government wants, but if we just speak out as a group about what we want, then perhaps the government will listen. If they don't want to listen, we can unite as one group and speak out. This will help us all out by doing what we think is right as the people of our state. There are so many people out in the state of Texas that don't care about what is going on with our government, especially us young folks, but we ALL really need to pay attention to our government and tell them what we want to happen with our state.  My point being that many of us don't pay close enough to our government to even know what is going on and to put our input on things to make the state and local government better. If we all paid a little more attention things might work better for the people of the state of Texas and for the government working together.

The "stimulus" - One Year Later
 This problem has been shown throughout the United States; you can even see it in the towns around me. Obama was so proactive about getting this bill passed right away and it has shown no progress whatsoever. Like the blog says, the only thing that has shown in the past year is 4.02 million jobs have been lost. The bill was supposed to help out 3.5 million people throughout the nation to get a job. Now that more jobs have been lost than gained as the blogger says, now Obama has more work than he even started with because he will have to find the 4.02 million jobs that were lost PLUS the 3.5 million he promised to give to people by the end of the year.   Obama clearly was not thinking at the time of the bill or if it actually was going to work or help anyone.  Obama's  "...top economic advisers offered a cautious forecast on Thursday that U.S. job gains for 2010 will average 95,000 a month," but this does not look very promising considering that this was posted in February. Thus, if it stays at this pattern, Obama would still fall short of jobs that he was promising to the nation.  Before the bill was passed, the statistics say that the unemployment rate was at 7.7%.  Since the bill has been passed it has risen to over 10%.  I completely agree with the blogger that things just went down hill since the bill has passed. The blogger makes a good point about the cost of the bill. America is already struggling with money and another $862 BILLION dollars went down the drain and has gone to waste. This bill simply did NOT do anything