Texas Legislature need to seek cleaner air

I will be critiquing on article by Morgan appearing in April 8, 2009 in my classmate's blog, texaspolitics, entitled "Texas legislatures need to seek cleaner air." The author of this article "Texas legislatures need to seek cleaner air" did very interesting job by discussing the proposed clean air bill by Texas Senator Kip Averitt. First Morgan complains about the pollution impact in the big city such as Dallas, Houston, and San-Antonio. His even going far to address the issue of pollution in rural areas by giving his personal experience as resident of Borger, Texas. For the author of this short article the air in Texas need to be clean. By addressing the issue of pollution in Texas by his personal statement, Morgan article gain credibility. Morgan can do more by using statistics and facts to support his argument. Finally, the editor concludes by making his proposal: his appeals to Texas' legislatures about the necessity to make the environment clean by using investigate procedure. At the very end of his article, Morgan congratulates the Senator Averitt for his effort to propose a bill to clean the air, because Morgan believes the health of Texans can be improve for many years if the bill pass the Legislature.

Stimulus Dollars and Perry

Should Governor Rick Perry accept the stimulus funds provide by federal government? The stimulus funds have been serious issues among lawmakers, particularly with Gov. Rick Perry. Perry rejected $555million of federal stimulus funds in unemployment compensation and many lawmakers have proposed legislation to override his decision.
In this period of financial crisis is very important to set up discussion and not let one person to take a decision. In this term, the lawmakers have the right to seek override the Governor decision. The decision should come from unanimous voice that have already study the problem, and make a proposal to the Governor and tell him where we are in term of employment. The consensus in this case is very important because single action can hurt even more the economic for long time. Stimulus package is not harmful itself. What can be harmful is the government overspending. With good management, and some restriction on spending the stimulus dollars can create more jobs. The unemployment rate is 6.5% in Texas now and is not decreasing but it increasing. That number should make logical appeal to the Governor reason to understand that we are not in “normal” time and the Governor should seek reasonable strategy, and long-term solution to avoid the worst.
I think as a leader Gov. Rick Perry should take time to look at all aspect of the problem and come with better solution with Legislature advice. The time is neither about Republican nor about Democrat, it about save hundred thousand of jobs. I wish the Senate and House will come to a compromise and make together a proposal to how spent stimulus funds. I wish Gov. Rick Perry will reconsider his position and looking for innovative ways to avoid docking Texas taxpayers’ unemployment funds.