How Republican Dominated State Government Fails Texas Repeatedly...

 You might have heard recently that there's been a deadly environmental disaster in the Texas Hill Country.

In a press conference the governor of Texas deflected a question about disaster preparedness with an ignorant football reference. It demonstrated the vacant attitude with which the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS), in Texas, has approached state services.  The RCS dominated state government in Texas has failed, many times, to provide the kind of assistance that could have saved lives, including in the Guadalupe River area known as “flash-flood alley.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/greg-abbott-bizarre-postflood-football-analogy/  

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2025-07-09/a-decade-of-missed-opportunities-texas-couldnt-find-1m-for-flood-warning-system-near-camps  

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/  

The RCS dominated state government in Texas has consistently withheld the kind of spending needed to provide proper services for the state's large population.  The state legislature has created, “budget surpluses,” by not using the money we, Texans, pay in taxes.

The Texas government has instead created the slush fund known as, “the Rainy Day Fund...”

https://texastaxpayers.com/what-is-the-texas-rainy-day-fund/  

Texas has a very regressive state taxing system: those who can afford it least, pay the largest percentage of their income in taxes.  The Texas legislature could, and has often talked about, giving relief to said heavily burdened tax payers, but has never done it.

Texas' RCS government has failed, repeatedly, to serve the citizens of Texas. From floods, freezes, shootings, etc...  Too many Texans have been needlessly injured and killed.

It is well past time, for far too many Texans who've been injured or killed, for the voters of Texas to elect a government that tries to best serve every Texan...  

I've been a Democratic, candidate for the Texas legislature, multiple times, so I'm not an objective observer. However, voting in your own best interest is to vote for Democrats.  Give (y)ourselves a chance.

When Government Works, It's Boring...

Ladies, Gentlemen, any and all others...  Government, when it works well, is incredibly boring.  That's why we have Inspectors General, DOJ, FTC, SEC, CFPB, etc...  They watch and report on what our government is doing; if everybody picks their favorite agency, and keeps up to date on it, we the people can keep government in line.

Remember, we the people (a.k.a., voters) are ultimately responsible for keeping our government working for us.  Recently, too many of us dropped the ball and let an oligarchy, assisted by gullible MAGAt voters, install their favorite convicted criminal, pathological liar back into the oval office (FA).  Those, who had been warned, are FO the hard way; our democratic republic has been violated/lost.  Folks who caused/allowed this to happen are discovering, the hard way, that this has unpleasant repercussions for almost everybody.     

The reason that some things must be done by government is because social structure that works best as is possible for as close to everybody is not done for profit; not what businesses do.  The business of business is profit, the occupation of government is working together to make a place for all to prosper while creating and leaving a better world for the next generation.

Suggested reading; copied from: https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2024/06/vote-in-your-own-best-interest-vote-for.html  

You need not read all these books cover to cover to get a really decent idea of what's being presented for your consumption.

Who is Government; by Michael Lewis (and many others); Riverhead Books, 2025.  

Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet (Your Wallet Does Better During a Democratic Administration), by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb, Advantage Media Group, 2012.

Poverty, By America; by Matthew Desmond; Crown Publishing; 2023.  

How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems That Shape Our World; Deb Chachra; Riverhead Books; 2023. 

There's more where that comes from (see link provided above)...