Comment on "Another Abortion topic."

    My comment is for “Home of the Brave”. Mrs. Dickerson said that all women have the right to abortion whenever they want to and why the tax payers have to take care of someone else’s children.

    I know that women have the right to do anything with their bodies whether they want to abort or not; however, I am also strongly disagree for what you said. I believe that Mrs. Dickerson still hasn’t realized that she is carrying a person life. Every child wants to see the light of days, and they want to see the one who give them life and love. Many mothers have aborted their babies before they give birth to them. As a result, after knowing that their babies are no longer alive, they started to cry and regret of what they did. Furthermore, abortion is like killing a living person. It is a cruel, heartless and brutal act; therefore, I gladly pay my taxes to help those mothers who couldn’t afford their finances, and I hope that everybody in the world would do the same thing.

   Mrs. Dickerson, I know many mothers are suffer and desperate because they don’t know how to take care of their babies after they’re born. However, I can ensure you that everyone in the United States and State of Texas will help those children who were not abandoned by their parents. We are all humans; therefore abortion should be illegal not in the US but everywhere in the world because it won’t be any different than murderers. Especially, it is your own child.

Arizona immigration law is not right for Texas

      Arizona’s law is not right for Texas. I am so glad and proud that our governor Rick Perry finally announced that Arizona’s law will not be the right direction for Texas. I certainly agree with him. Rick Perry might be the best governor in the US right now if you ask me. Arizona’s law considers unconstitutional. I think it against what our founding father have said many years ago, “All men created are equal.” Of course, illegal immigrations are bad for Texas or the US; however, it could improve our economy. Many people think that the illegal immigrants are taking our jobs away and tearing our economy apart but it’s not. These people whether are working in the construction or in the restaurant with very a low payment, and there aren’t many Americans who want these jobs anyway; therefore, we can’t conclude that these illegal immigrants take our jobs away. In addition, the fact is that illegal immigrations will make our economy much better because the more people come to our country or our state, the more people will buy our stuffs. We will have many people buying our products; therefore, we will have to need more workers to manufacture more products. As a result, it could lead to increase jobs in our state. Sometime, I might think illegal immigrations are a good thing because these people are desperate, poor and grief. They want to have a normal just like us. We would do the same thing if we were them. For me, when Arizona passed the law, I was thinking that their government is just a group of racism, prejudice, brutal and heartless. They only think for themselves but not the people of their state. So, when the same law came to Texas, I thought that Texas would end up just like Arizona; nonetheless, I am so proud and joyful when our great governor Rick Perry opposed the law and said that the law would not be the right direction for Texas.    

Comment on "Guns=Bad News Bears"

       My comment is for “Deep in the Heart of Texas” said that conceal handguns should not be allowed on university campuses because it might cause a greater problem. I agree with Samantha Johnson that students should not allow to bring a conceal handgun into universities. Indeed, it is very danger to carry any weapon in the classes. For example, if you know somebody in your class carrying a gun or knife, do you think that it could affect your education? You don’t know what will happen if he pulls out a gun and starts shooting at students or teachers because of a bad grade or depression. You may end up in a situation where people are pointing their guns at each other without knowing who the shooter was. However, what if somebody illegally carry a gun and enter your class and start shooting at you, what is your response? Do you wish to have a gun in your hands to protect yourself or wait until the police come and save you? That’s why I have a little disagree about not carrying guns on campuses. Nonetheless, without a weapon is still better then to have a weapon. So it won’t distract your learning when you know that you are safe and nobody around you carries a weapon.

We are heading in the right direction

       My comments about Texas government is that I understand that many teachers have been fired in Texas. Most of them were teaching at elementary schools. Many people think that it is a bad policy to eliminate thousands of teaching jobs in Texas, and parents don’t want their kids schools have to be closed. However, I think this is the alternate policy we have right now if we want to save our state budget. Therefore, I totally agree and support this policy. The last few years, our spending on building better roads, higher education and criminal issues were tremendous high that we have lost too much money to spend other projects and create more jobs. I know it is hard for them to accept being fired in this difficult period of time. Nonetheless, we have to see our community as a whole. The State of Texas percentage of unemployment is about 8.3 percent right now. It still seems very high compare to the unemployment rate from 2000 to 2007. I would rather lose a few jobs to create more jobs for our community than keeping these few jobs to lose more jobs. This plan also might hurt a lot of people who are choosing to become a teacher. This incident might affect whether they want to become a teacher or not because it is a difficult time for teachers to find a solid and stable career for the rest of their lives. I’m still remembering when the president Obama stepped on front of the legislature and said that our country needs more teachers, and the next day, all we heard were that teachers were being fired across the State of Texas. Texas is very conservative. Cutting education is the best of all the spending cuts. As a result, everyone who live in Texas should accept this policy and live with it. We are heading in the right direction and this policy is one of the policies that could create more jobs and keep our State less debts.

A Life Of A Person

   I want to comment on the commentary of a woman named Helene Burns on the Austin American Statement “Burns: In Texas, no one should pay for an imperfect system with their lives.” She talks about the murdered case of her mother who was killed by her father. She was extremely angry at the murderer that she was even advocated and wanted a death penalty. However, this was also a family problem that the district attorney's office attempted to seek a sentence to life. So, after a long time had passed, Helene Burns was well educated. She realized that death penalty is not appropriate and it could kill innocent people. She strongly opposes it and said that the state of Texas could use their funds on law enforcement, cold case units, corrections and victim services instead of the death penalty. I totally agree all the things that she said above. Death penalty is an inhuman punishment. You are betting a person life on a scale where people are not 100 percent sure that victims are guilty or not guilty. For example, in 2001, Robert Springsteen was convicted of murdering four teens in an Austin yogurt shop in 1991. He was sentenced to death; however, his DNA did not match the DNA evidence from the crime scene. Therefore, he was dismissed all charges by State District Judge Mike Lynch. This was a luckily case that the almost killed the wrong person. Furthermore, till this day, there have been 205 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States and 15 of them were executed. As a result, instead of execution, I believe that our government should use their funds to build more jails or prisons. I would be safer for those who are innocent and have been convicted murderers because private detectives and investigators will always do their best to be more accurate on whether he/she is innocent or not.  

Services that help disabled are next on list of cuts.

    I selected the article from Austin News about the cutting services for the disability and aging people. State lawmakers are looking to cut as much as $27 billion from the state budget, and these cuts could affect more than 13,000 people who are at risk of losing more than $96 million each year. One of those that could be hit the hardest is the Department of Aging and Disability Services. Many protesters which included all the disability and poor people have gathered at the state capital on Tuesday morning to protest and let the lawmakers know that these cuts would hurt the poor and suffering people.

     I totally disagree with the State lawmakers. $27 billion is a big number. It needs to have a lot of cutting to decrease state budget, and services for the disability and aging people are one of them. However, I think that it is not such a good idea to let handicaps taking care of themselves without the help of the Department of Aging and Disability Services. The another issue is that the federal funding for services, such as the Medicaid waiver program runs out of this year which could fear the Disability and old people. As a result, these people are mad, and they marched to the capital and yelling at the government. I don’t think the Texas government will change their opinion about the cuts; however, it’s much better if we try to convince them. Maybe they could reduce the cuts and avoid cutting services for disability and aging people.   

The End Of Some Schools.

     The AISD district has issued the 10 years plans to close nine schools. They didn’t mention any school name; however, they did say that they have submitted one middle school and eight elementary schools that will be enclosed. And also, Superintendent Meria Carstaphen recommends cutting more than 1,000 jobs. It will save district more than $53 million dollars for upcoming school year. There are a few districts that are likely to involve the possible closure like of Barton Hills, Zilker, Sanchez, Oak Springs, Ortega, Brooke, Pease and Joslin elementary schools, as well as Pearce Middle School.

      Cutting 1,000 jobs is big number. Our country needs more decent teachers. But then, we have fired many of them in order to save district money for upcoming years. Is it ironic?