Religion in Public Schools

I don’t see how or why we are still debating this issue here in 2010 but I suppose there will always be people who feel that their job is to push their beliefs on others. I can understand wanting to have your child be in an environment which is based off and teaches a certain religion, but public school is not that place. My father was raised Catholic and his parents sent him to Catholic school. That’s what you do if you want religion in all parts of your child’s life. And I can understand if your family simply doesn’t have the money to send their child to a school that is of their religious practice but there are religious based home school courses. And as for things like the Pledge that have the association of God in it is something people shouldn’t HAVE to do. I don’t think they should take it out of schools but as long as the association of religion in it I don’t think that it should be forced.

If there is going to be any religion in schools it should be the teaching of Religions of the world, and what each religion practices so that the ignorance of religion of other countries can be sorted out.

In an article called "Austin more than staying afloat" on the Austin Stateman website, it is being said that "this part of Texas, from Austin all the way down to San Antonio, could lead the nation's economic recovery." This article is aimed and anyone who has lost a job or is about to.
The article is about how Austin is trying to get corporations to open up down here to create an estimated 850 jobs. Facebook is already opening a unit which will create 300 jobs. A far cry from the 2,300 jobs lost between December 2008 and December 2009, but a good start.
In order to get these companys to open up down here, the government is giving them tax breaks. Apparently this has called for some criticism about using incentives to lure business. Frankly I don't see what the problem is, its helping more than its hurting. Its creating jobs in a time where jobs are hard to come by. So I agree with the author in that I think that this is a good opportunity and that its gonna help out a lot. But I don't think we will "lead the nation's economic recovery with" this, I think it's going to take a lot more that tax breaks and such to bring America out if this recession.

Blog 2

I came across this article on the KVUE website about how Texas is giving Vets a $30 million homebuyer initiative. Its good to see the government helping out our vets more after they come home cause a know a few who struggled after returning.

See article here

I picked this article cause I think we need to give our vets more benefits than we do, they risk their lives in order to defend us this LEAST we could do is give them a bit more support.