TDP Video Chronicles Headlines From Around Texas

The Texas Democratic Party today released a new video in its continuing "GOP Price Tag" series that chronicles recent headlines from print and broadcast media outlets around Texas. The headlines chronicled in the video include the following:

“The Texas GOP Chose to Decimate Our Educational System” - $9.8 Billion Cut From Public Schools - Texas Tribune

• 41% Cut from State Grants for Higher Education - KXTS
• State Grants for Pre-K Programs Eliminated - Texas Tribune
• Texas budget passes without Demos – El Paso Times
• GOP Budget Will Cost Texas 335,000 Jobs - Business Week
• 12,353 Fewer Public School Jobs In Texas (And Counting) - Burnt Orange Report
• Lawmakers choose tax break for gas producers over schools - San Antonio Express News
• Texas Nursing Homes Concerned Over Medicaid Cuts - Houston Chronicle
• Republicans propose tax breaks for yacht owners - Minnesota Independent

Starving the Government Beast

The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann

"Starving the beast" is a fiscal-political strategy adopted by American conservatives in the 1970's to create or increase existing budget deficits via tax cuts to force future cuts and eventual privatization of Medicare, Social Security, Public Education and every other public service. [see Forbes and the video left.]

Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times: For readers who don't know what I'm talking about: Ever since Ronald Reagan, the GOP has been run by people who want a much smaller government.

Fighting Climate Change Through Innovative Initiatives

Actual Climate Scientists Rap

Huffingtonpost: Floods and droughts may be the "new normal" and sea levels may be rising faster than previously thought, but the younger generation isn’t willing to accept these climate change consequences for their future.

As the grownups duke it out in Washington, kids take action with visible results, proving they may be more capable than adults in fighting man-made climate change.