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.
We are heading in the right direction
ReplyDeleteBy Mr. Nguyen
In this post, Mr. Nguyen states that the cuts that are being made to education is a cut that must happen and “everyone in Texas should accept this policy and deal with it.” I agree that something needs to happen to fix our economy in Texas and the country, but I think his argument is poorly defended. Mr. Nguyen defends his argument by stating that making these cuts now will create more jobs in the future. I would like to know which jobs this will create. In the post he never states what jobs can be generated by making these cuts. The thing that Mr. Nguyen is not thinking about is that these cuts are not just happening to education, the reduction is all across the board. So let’s say we do these cuts, where are these people going to work? The unemployment as he states is at 8.3 percent. With these cuts and along with all of the other cuts, that unemployment will increase tremendously. These people will then become a burden on society because they are going to ask for unemployment benefits, which will further inundate us economically. Guess who will have to pay for their benefits, the government; and guess who the government is going to pass the baton to, us. These people will be getting money and we will not be getting anything out of them. Another thing that Mr. Nguyen is not applying is simple economics. A person with a job has purchasing power. This means that the money that they have they will spend, which pumps money into our economy. If we cut these people from their jobs, their purchasing power shortens so much that they will not spend as much as they would if they had more. This in return will not pump that much money into our hurting economy, which puts us brings us back to how are we going to fix our economic woes.