>

TX Rs: "Best we can do is cut funding to public schools, spend more on charter school vouchers, make NCLB more stringent, and reprimand parents to raise their special needs kids better by threatening their safety nets if they don't without any extra information or assistance from us."
In April, Abbott began chartering busses to drop migrants off in other parts of the country, like Washington, DC, and Chicago, without giving those cities any notice — a program that Texas has spent millions of dollars on.
Texas had spent $12 million on the efforts as of August, the Texas Tribune reported at the time. By November, the amount spent busing migrants out of state had risen to $20 million, according to local outlet WFAA. >


a program that Texas has spent millions of dollars on.

If you looked at the numbers, the amount paid and how many asylum seekers they trafficked, they could have sent these folks to the Blue States on airplanes in business class. 
If you pried the lid off of this scam, I bet you discover a bus company owner who's a close personal friend to Abbott. >

I wonder if it's to do with air travel being so heavily regulated federally. Like if using airlines would open them up to federal crimes where the buses wouldn't. >

This isn’t really the point being made though :)
It’s the fact that the amount of money ‘spent’ minus the amount of money it actually functionally took them to transport them, equals a ton of money that went easily unaccounted for and likely into the personal pockets of whom ever kingpin was involved in the deal with Abbot.   It’s embezzlement. >

Yeah. They could have just given these poor people homes and jobs. But nope..... >

Cruelty and embezzlement in one convenient package. >

Wouldn't have sent the "right message" to their constituents or benefactors, apparently.
Fucking sad.... fucking embarrassing >

They are incompetent and throwing more money under their control just means that his buddies will get richer and still blame Biden >

He said that Biden should have visited ASAP in his presidency instead of two years later because of the "damage he's done". Apparently whatever the heck the Trump administration had been doing up until Biden's inauguration held no bearing on the border situation. >

Yeah like it was great under trump, but suddenly on day 1 of Biden's presidency it was fucked. How does that work? >

I haven’t heard a single one of them screaming about a migrant caravan the last 2 years >

That's because they all upgraded to migrant Grand Caravans. They're kind of like the ones that used to be built in the USA, but now we import them from Mexico. >

soon they will be upgrading them to Astro Wagons. >

What about the $1B he wasted to help the Trump administration fundamentally paint border fence?  What a loser >

Whose the real loser? The grifter or the people voting for them? >

It's losers all the way down. >

Always has been.. >

Texas is the worst state now. What’s fucked up is that the federal government allows shit politicians to drive states into the ground and everyone else hand waved it off as voters voted for it. What a shit show in the USA >

It’s so bad and it makes me so sad. My 75 yr old mom just told me she couldn’t take it anymore and she’s gonna move. Her grandparents built the town we live in. It’s heartbreaking. >

My husband and I are mid 60’s. After our whole lives in Texas, we left a year and a half ago. One kid and their family left too, the other is working on it. The rest of our extended family is happy to stay. I’ll always be a Texan but just can’t take Texas anymore. I tell people who ask, it didn’t use to be like this. It didn’t. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating. 
We maintained our Texas residency while living out of state, traveling back and forth to visit, doctor appointments, and so on, but mainly so we could vote this past election cycle. The turnout among democrats and the youth was poor, and yes, suppression is a huge problem. But apathy is worse, to me. Can’t even put up a fight? That was it, the last straw. We’re officially residents of New Mexico now. We love it here but miss a lot of things, mostly just the familiarity of home. 
I hope your mom finds her place. Tell her a kindred stranger is thinking about her. >

This is the sweetness of Texas I miss. I always say “you never stop being from Texas” 💜 but neither of us can live with this kind of hostility.
    New Mexico is gorgeous!! I wish you many beautiful sunsets. >

Fellow former Texan and current New Mexican checking in! 
People kept telling me it’s the same everywhere. It’s not. Being in NM is a delight compared to Texas (or Arizona). >

You’re giving me a lot of hope for my future. Thanks for sharing. It’s a tough decision to make, but it’s nice to hear I’m not alone. >

Biden just needs to say it would be fiscally irresponsible to give Abbott more money after wasting so much shipping migrants to other states "for the lolz". Repubs love when you bring up fiscal responsibility, remember? >

He needs to point out that Abbott literally said in his debate with Beto he had billions of excess money sitting ready to be used to help Texans. I heard so many Republicans say they were going to vote for him specifically because "he's the one who saved all that money to use for Texas." 
But here he is crying about not having any money 🙄 >

If he has a bunch of money saved up, it's because he hasn't been spending it to help Texas. He's been hoarding it. The stupidity of the people who voted for him astounds and infuriates me. >

For real. He's taxing them and not returning it to the people in any way as taxes are meant to be. They should be furious. >

I sure as hell am, but I sometimes feel like I'm the only one. >

Maybe they should use some of the State of Texas’ $8.7B rainy day fund? Maybe the money they’re begging for should go to fixing the grid, like they were supposed to do ten years ago? Maybe they should spend their ESF on addressing Texas’ Maternal Mortality Rate, which happens to be the worst in the fucking country. 
Fuck Texas. >

The state’s budget surplus is unprecedented, with estimates showing it to be at least $27 billion, and possibly as high as $35 billion.
Idk why Texas needs more federal money. Biden should withhold funds until Texas expands Medicaid which is paid by the federal government. >

I'd rather see that money go back into public shools and help fix Texas education. I know the first thing we can do. Get rid of charter schools. Secondly, get rid of no child left behind. Third thing we can do is help parents with special needs children and behavior issue kids.