TPHMR Afterschool program

[ac6976]

Texas mental health afterschool program for Amarillo's disabled children, the only program helping mentally handicap children for afterschool and summer time childcare has lost its funding, therefore there is no help for parents of these children or the children and the teachers that have worked so hard to make these kids lives better will be unemployed along with the parents who will not be able to work without childcare for their disabled children.
This is part of our president funding cuts...... taking from the elderly and disabled.

What can we do ??

[west-texan]

I would see the problem as being on 3 levels:

1. National - where Obama is anti-business which hurts business and sales tax revenue at the state and local levels.

2. State - where Obama's anti-business attitude is hurting sales tax revenue for the state of Texas.

Obama won't let us drill our own oil which is costing Texas millions of $$$$ in lost tax revenue.

And Texas has a budget deficit...which means some things have to be cut.

TPMHR is probably lucky they haven't completely lost state funding.

3. Local - where the Amarillo mayor and city commission and AEDC are anti-business.

Most of the jobs created by the AEDC in the last 10 years or so...have been minimum wage jobs.

Low pay jobs in Amarillo mean less U.S. income tax and less state and local sales tax revenue.

The AEDC's minimum wage jobs don't leave those people much money to spend which means less sales tax locally and for the state of Texas.

The only thing that has kept Texas afloat is that Rick Perry is a pro-business governor.

We have a bad anti-business president in Washington, DC.

Then our local Amarillo City Hall people are also anti-business.

And that hurts tax revenue.

1. We need to be drilling our own oil and aggressively promoting business in our country.

2. And we need need to bring new companies in Amarillo with lots of good paying middle class jobs.

We must vote Obama out in November 2012.