I Side With the Blue too!

    I side with Francisco on his article, "I Side With the Blue." In his article Francisco talks about the Government and its views on same sex marriage. I agree that the Government has no say in who can marry who. Telling people who they can marry, to me, goes against the right to the pursuit of happiness. What is the worst that can happen? The world isn't going to automatically blow up if the Government decides to allow same sex marriage. It will only honor happiness to the people once discriminated against. Francisco mentioned the past's discrimination's and how they are similar to today's society. I have never really noticed the pattern. Just like the segregation of blacks, same sex couples are also being segregated against by society and it just is not right. People are people and let them live their lives how they choose.
    There was also a paragraph on higher education and it's funding. Francisco and myself also believe that the Government does not invest enough money for higher education. At least for me, I grew up always hearing about continuing education to be somebody in life. I would her this from, of course, my family and also society. "College, college, college," is all I would hear from family and society. So my question is, "if you want us to go to college to better ourselves and the society that we live in, then why is college so damn expensive and how do you think potential college students are going to pay for it?" There needs to be some other solution other than falling upon the tax payers, but what?

"Providing" for State College Funding

    On The Texas Tribune, there is an article tilted, "State College Funding Turns on Definition of 'Provide,'" that talks about how the State Constitution says that "the state will provide for the maintenance, support and direction of a University of the first class." This ultimately means that the state has to dedicate half of every dollar to higher education. According to the article, nowadays only 13 percent goes to the University of Texas at Austin and 22 percent to Texas A&M University. So the question that is posed is, is the state really providing for the first class education stated in the State Constitution? Some individuals might say that the state does not provide enough money to provide for the maintenance, support and the direction of a University. One reasoning for this conclusion may be that if the state were providing enough money, then why are the tuition rates so high? The 13 or 22 percent being offered at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M seems to be considerable low compared to the amount of tuition owed. On the other hand some individuals might say that the state is providing enough funding for a University of the first class. Due to the fact that the state is only part of a whole that makes up funding, it is up to the other methods of funding to pick up the supposed slack and not the state's. With that being said, is it really legally the job or even the concern of the state to provide more than constitutionally stated?