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Take Action:Health - Wellness - Exercise - Reflections:Texas House budget includes anti-gay measure, leaves out needed funds for AIDS drug program
04 Apr 2011 / Dallas Voice / John Wright
The Texas House approved a budget Sunday that includes massive cuts to public education, Medicaid and, well, just about everything else. The House budget, which now goes to the Senate, would trim $23 billion from current state and federal spending over the next two years. Democrats in the House, who are outnumbered 2-to-1, say the cuts will have disastrous effects on key services.
As we noted the other day, the House budget includes an amendment that would require public colleges and universities in Texas with LGBT resource centers to spend an equal amount, dollar for dollar, on centers promoting "traditional and family values." The amdendment from Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, passed by a margin of 110-24.
The House budget does not include any additional money for the Texas HIV Medication Program, which will need $19.2 million more over the next two years to meet increased demand. The HIV Medication Program provides life-sustaining medication to 14,000 low-income people with HIV/AIDS. Last week, a Senate budget panel recommended providing the additional money. The Senate's version of the budget is expected to include $10 billion more than the House, and the two measures will then have to be reconciled. As one lawmaker put it, "Thank God for the Senate."
After the jump is the reaction to the budget of Democratic State Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, who called the budget "shameful." Incidentally, Coleman proposed an amendment to the budget that would have required school districts to report incidents of harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The amendment failed by a vote of 97-49.
Writes Coleman of the final House budget: "I voted `no' on this bill because in my 20 years as a state legislator, I've never seen a budget so devastating to children and seniors. All we've done today is move around the deck chairs as the Titanic sinks."
Texas House Budget: It's Shameful
Governor Perry earlier this year said the sky's not falling. Although it may not be falling for the Governor, the House budget is making the sky crash down on the people of Texas.
The Texas House of Representatives today passed House Bill 1, the budget bill for the state of Texas for the 2012-2013 biennium. I voted "no" on this bill because in my 20 years as a state legislator, I've never seen a budget so devastating to children and seniors. All we've done today is move around the deck chairs as the Titanic sinks.
The Republican supermajority cut the budget by $23 billion, or more than 12 percent, from our current funding levels. Those in power chose to use only a portion of the Rainy Day Fund – dollars that Texans have already paid the state. Even if they would use all of the Rainy Day Fund, the state would still face $17 billion in cuts.
HB 1 leaves Texas $7.8 billion short of meeting the education funding levels required by state law. This will cram more students into already overcrowded classrooms, cause more schools to close, and cause more Texans to suffer from the effects of a diminished education. According to the experts, 100,000 people that Texas children and parents rely on - including bus drivers, counselors and teachers – would lose their jobs.
The proposed budget only further closes the doors to a higher education for thousands of Texas students. HB 1 slashes almost $1 billion from our institutions of higher education. If universities tried to offset these cuts, full time Texas college students could pay an extra $1,023 a year in tuition. With these cuts to education, it's evident that the Republican supermajority is taking the lead in the race to the bottom.
The House budget will erase any gains made in increasing access to care for Texans. The Republican supermajority voted to take away medication from individuals living with HIV, putting lives in great danger. HB 1 severely underfunds Medicaid, which more than 3.3 million Texans - mostly children, pregnant women, seniors, and adults with disabilities - rely on to access health care. The House budget slashes the rates paid to doctors so drastically, that Texans who have Medicaid could lose access to a doctor. The cuts to Medicaid endanger seniors in our nursing homes. The Texas Health Care Association estimates that with the budget cuts, 50 percent of all nursing homes could shut down, forcing 43,700 seniors out of their home. I offered an amendment to restore these funds and keep quality health care a priority. Unfortunately, my amendment was voted down by Republicans.
The House budget endangers our state's economic prosperity. According to the Legislative Budget Board, the House budget will cost Texas over 335,000 jobs by 2013, 44% of which are in the private sector.
The cuts in House Bill 1 are unsustainable and cut into the marrow. Our state may never recover (maybe that's the design) from the cuts to essential state services in this bill, and that's simply not a way to run government.
The Legislative Study Group (LSG), a House Caucus that I Chair, analyzed House Bill 1 and all the amendments that were filed for the bill. You can read those analyses here.
Earlier this year, the LSG released Texas on the Brink: "How Texas Ranks Among the 50 States." You can read that report here, and see where Texas currently stands in major policy categories. The cuts to essential state services by HB 1 will only make our already dismal standings worse.
- Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck - Fox News. Glenn Beck is anti-gay rights.
- Update: DADT has been repealed. President Obama has kept his promise!
- Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida!
- Boycott Arizona the home of "hater" - U.S. Senator John McCain. Arizona's Hateful anti-Immigration Law - encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities. A remedy: Demand Republicans to support Immigration Reform (The Dream Act). Further, Senator McCain voted against ending DADT and Blocked Immigration reform!
- Boycott Target, Best Buy, Gold's Gym - for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations. Update: (12/26/2010): Target is continuing to donate to anti-gay groups/causes/politicians. Update 03/08/11 - Lady Gaga Ends Target Partnership, Reportedly Over Target's Poor LGBT Stance. Update 3/25/2010 - Target displays their hypocrisy and Sues California Gay Rights Group for Lobbying Outside Stores. Target is attempting to block the LGBT right of free speech! STOP SHOPPING AT TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.
- Pass ENDA (Employee Non-Discrimination Act). ENDA would prevent employment discrimination of LGBT workforce.
- Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
- BOYCOTT "Chick-fil-a" for donating to anti-gay marriage groups.
- BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS- to include their products: Angel Soft toilet paper / Brawny paper towels / Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups / Mardi Gras napkins and towels / Quilted Northern toilet paper / Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper / Sparkle napkins / Vanity fair napkins / Zee napkins / Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes / All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products (INVISTA Products) / Lycra / Stainmaster Carpet. The billionaire - Koch brothers are ultra republican - tea bag founders/supporters that do not support causes of the LGBT community.
- Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
- Remember David Kato, Gay activist - Uganda, who was slain because he is gay!
- NEW: Boycott Donald Trump, The Apprentice and NBC Network! At CPAC, Trump said he is considering a run for president as a Republican. In a interview with the Des Moines Register, Trump added that he opposes all forms of legal recognition for gay couples, not just marriage. "They should not be able to marry," he said. So why does NBC keep the Apprentice when Donald Trump has stated he may run for president? Boycott NBC! Boycott advertisers of The Apprentice and his other business's. Don't shop at any bulklding with Donald Trump's name! The Donald has expressed extreme Hatred. Remember how poorly he treated Rosie O'Donnel? Now we know why he did that! It was hate against a lesbian as we now know he is hater. Unforgiveable! Ready to dump NBC because they air Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"? Start Watching CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
- NEW: Boycott "APPLE." For the current owners and the aspiring owners of the I-phone, Apple allows an application, "The Gay App", which is supposed to help gay individuals turn straight. This is a step in the wrong direction.
Apple needs to know that the decision to allow this App on their products is a fallacious idea! Update: March 23, 2011: Apple removed this app from USA stores; but, rumored to have them remain in some foreign stores. This is offensive not just towards the LGBT community in the USA; but, offensive to the entire LGBT community around the world. How does anyone approve such a hateful, despicable app towards the LGBT community? Especially when Gay Teens are killing themselves after being harrassed by their church, parents, as well as by bully's and teachers at school. The idea that this app was used, solicited is disgusting.
And Now, Our War of the Fittest!
This group is called "Peckers Pics." The English - slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues. In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!" Whereas, you should select the guy that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!Your participation in discussion of health / news articles - appearing in this message is greatly appreciated.
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