Revolution

While we spend most of our time discussing the presidential election and national issues, the three of us here are from Texas, so state issues concerns us too.

I love Texas. I was born here, raised here and if I choose to leave someday, I will greatly miss it. Though I loved visiting New York City last year, I felt homesick halfway through the trip. And this is why the current state of my home saddens me so much.

This is why it saddens me so much that one in four of our citizens don't have health insurance, worse than in any other state in the country. This is why it saddens me our education system is worse than everywhere but Kansas.

I guess we should be proud that for the second year in a row, we had the highest number of high school drop outs, and only five other states beat us in the number of poor people we have. Oh, and we finish a strong second in kids without proper medical care and the number of teen pregnancies.

But what's really sad is that our far right-wing officials debate how big of a tax cut our wealthiest citizens should receive or whether or not evolution should still be included in our textbooks rather than trying to fix any of these problems. They have become so involved with business interests Texas has gone from one of the most consumer friendly states to the most anti-consumer one.

We Texans love our independence from everyone else, but are these the things where we want to stand out? In just a few years, we'll have a population that's larger, poorer, less educated and more needy than today. Who would choose this for our future?

It's time to throw these people out of office. Texas had a revolution once, I say it is time we had a new one!