The fight begins

  House bill 1 has passed the house and has moved on to the senate. The house bill is considered too harsh by most senators. A new bill is being crafted that is a compromise between the original bill and the senate bill that is a little easier on the cuts. The main problem is social programs. Medicare and medicaid costs have increased to the state, and the house is unwilling to put those programs first. I would like to senate to consider one thing. All the programs have their merit. When we look at it what is important? If we take money away from education then the costs for welfare and medicaid goes up. The burden on the state increases. The means that people cannot afford to retire and the result is more people on the medicare program. That being said, the current programs that the state has in place cannot simply just go away. We have given our word to support all of these programs. Has the state bitten off more than it can chew? The answer is yes, but are there other programs that could be sacrificed instead? I think so.

  I help sponsor a club at school. Today I went with the officers and the other school sponsor to Wal-mart to purchase items for the club. At the end of our shopping trip we stopped off to pick up a sandwich. I covered the cost of one of the kid's sandwiches. He had no money and said that he really had not eaten lunch. I did this because he is a good kid, and because he deserved the chance to eat. The problem with the state is that they view the entire system as an institution. They forget that this system is made up of people. Those people depend on you for services, whether that is education or health care. If we do not honor those commitments, what does that make our society? We like to look at the numbers and make cuts, but what about the kids that need it and the retirees that depend on medicare services. The state needs to buy the education system a sandwich. It needs to take into account that we are all working hard for the betterment of society. If it decides that it is not important than it needs to come up with other options. That is the least that our senate could do. Give us another option in everything, or fix the system that we have.

For those that are interested here is the article that talks about the senate and their views.

Until tomorrow,
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
-- Sir Claus Moser