Update and Fellow Blogger Link

    Here we are again, looking to find the purpose and meaning behind the politicians and the laws that they pass.

    Before I start another discussion, I just want to update everybody on  the current state of the Planned Parenthood debate that I last posted. According to the dailycaller.com, "The organization filed a lawsuit against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission in federal court this week, seeking to prevent enforcement of a new rule that excludes their affiliates from participating in the state’s Women’s Health Program...Unless the lawsuit is successful, under the new rule, on April 30, Planned Parenthood will no longer be able to participate in the program." So, for all of the like-minded people out there, lets hope that the judge assigned to this case will be impartial and ethical.

    As I was reading through most of my fellow classmates blog entries, I came across a discussion about the WIC program here in Texas, and how even that program is in jeopardy of losing funding. Surprisingly I had not read anything about this current matter; also I found it interesting how it parallels the same problems that Planned Parenthood is having. If you would like to read the entire post please click on the link, left of the blue cognizance blog, M. Kelly is the author, and she has definitely brought yet another public funding issue to light. This is just another example of why I can't in good faith, stand beside my fellow Republicans on a situation like this.

    What is going on in this state? Have the right-wing conservatives lost their minds? There is no way that there is not enough money "just lying around" to fund these beneficial programs for the most needy in the state. Is it not our job, our obligation as Americans, and certainly as Texans, to provide the indigent, a very simple and basic health care need? Especially, when it saves us all money in the long run. All of this, in the wake of a national unemployment rate that is lowering and the city of Austin becoming one of the fastest growing job markets in the country. There should be more than enough money to fund whatever "WE THE PEOPLE" want to fund. I believe that the lawmakers forget that they work for us!

    Until next time...