McCain has youth votes

As Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin make their first campaign visit to Green Bay, thousands are lining up outside, anxious to see their candidates in person. According to one of the young supporters, McCain and the republican Party do not get a lot of youth support. Brandon Baxter believes that the Democrats get all the youth support and wants people to see that the youth do care. Another young voter, Steven Lacy, is trying to show that McCain has youth votes too by supporting his views about what he has to say about the war and how the surge is working. I think this article would be worth reading if you are a young voter who supports McCain because apparently he does not get that many young votes and it's good to have younger voters participating. I found an article about McCain and his youth votes

Chris Bell for Texas Governor

Chris Bell is running for the Texas Senate in the Gulf Coast’s District 17 because it's an incredible opportunity to make progress on the issues he cares about the most: public school education, access to health care and ethics reform.
He has been a leader since his days on the Houston City Council and in Congress. Now his experience can work for us in the State Legislature. As your senator, Chris will make sure Texas invests in our future by giving our public schools the resources they need to provide our children with a rigorous and useful education. He will work to end the state's over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing. I would put my vote towards Chris Bell because i agree that getting the children ready for college should be more important than getting them ready to take another standardized test. Government can't solve every problem, but it should never make a problem worse. That's what has happened with children's health care in Texas. Chris believes the extraordinarily high number of uninsured children in Texas is a moral crisis that should be met head-on. If we are going to change the way business is conducted in Austin, we are going to have to hold our elected officials to a higher standard and ensure that their actions are transparent and accountable to all Texans. That's why Chris supports campaign finance reform and stricter enforcement of ethics rules.

University of Texas, government reach deal on border fence

A planned fence along the U.S.-Mexican border will no longer cut off a large chunk of a South Texas university, according to an agreement reached by the school and the federal government. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who had ordered the University of Texas at Brownsville and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work on a compromise, ordered that the deal be submitted in writing by Tuesday after accepting it in principle Thursday. Under the university's agreement, the government will not condemn any university land and will not build a fence on campus. I agree that it was a good idea to take down a fence that was blocking off parts of the campus and preventing future expansion. In exchange to the agreement, the school will improve an existing fence that is in disrepair so that it will stand 10 feet tall next to the levee that runs north of the campus golf course. The university will also invest in additional cameras and allow the Border Patrol to install its cameras and sensors on the fence.

Government Lobbyists Paid with Tax Dollars

Are you aware that governmental entities use our tax dollars to hire lobbyists to promote the growth of government and oppose tax limitations? They do this despite the fact that there are laws on the books in Texas which prohibit this activity. There are no penalties for violating these laws. The Texas Associations of Counties which is funded by taxpayer dollars from county governments spent about $250,000 for 15 lobbyists during the 79th Texas Legislative Session. During the same session, 541 governmental entities spent $52.6 million tax dollars to hire lobbyists to promote government programs in Texas. These entities included city and county governments, school districts, and utility and water districts. Do you think that these lobbyists were paid to promote a decrease in the tax burden on the citizens and a limit on the growth of government? Most productive taxpaying citizens support the limitation on the growth of government by limiting the tax revenues. Do you want your tax dollars spent on lobbyists to oppose this aim? The free enterprise system has produced the business growth that has made Texas the economic force that it is today. Governments do not create wealth for society rather they extract wealth from the productive.

Texas: Government Pays to Refurbish Church

In El Paso, the government is paying for a large refurbishing project on a 113-year-old Catholic church. Nothing structural is being done just plasters and layers of new paint. Apparently the church didn't want to have the congregation pay for it, so all tax payers have to foot the bill to make a Catholic church look pretty. most residents who attend the church were grateful that the government used taxpayer money to fix it up, however the residents who do not attend the church are not as happy about the government using their taxpaying money to make a church that they don't attend look pretty. I wouldn't be too happy with my taxpaying money going towards a church i don't attend either. I think it's good to spruce up a church that old so it can stand even longer but I think the government should find other ways of coming up with the money to do that. The church committee could even come up with a fund raiser or something to fund the church instead of using people's hard earned tax money.

Oil and gas refinery worker sues company for unsafe plant conditions

Oil and gas refinery worker of twenty years, Jose Herrera, was scorched with 550-degree crude oil over 1/3 of his body when a pipe attached to equipment he was working on ruptured. The oil had sprayed over his face, neck, hands and legs while he was harnessed to a scaffolding and couldn't move out of the way. He was left disabled. Herrera and other workers were fronted with a legal and political battle at the state Capitol about wether they should be able to sue a workcite owner they believe to be negligent. Herrera also believes that the refinery owner should be held accountable for unsafe plant conditions that endanger workers. Late this week, Herrera sued Citgo, its parent corporation and another company for what he claims to be their mistakes that caused his injury. Personally, I think that Herrera and the other workers should sue the company for a dangerous work environment. Herrera had been working at the BP Plant in Texas City weeks before an explosion occured killing fifteen. Companies like these should really pay attention to the dangers in their working area because accidents like these occur often seriously injuring and killing multiple people.