Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza

[Onkel Neal]

Well, yeah, you're right, Mookie, but $50 and $30 a month, isn't that a lot of money for someone who cannot feed his children? And many of these families have 3, 4, 5+ kids. Each has a phone. (Not too mention the inevitable beer and cigarettes money that the parents and often the kids spend).

As for the education problem, I don't think there is anything government can do to make people better parents. All I can see is that government should reward, not handicap, students that actually do choose to make education an important part of their life, who behave, work diligently, and who may become successful "1%er"s at some point.

While the kids who cannot sit down and stop talking, won't do their work unless you do it for them, who want everything done for them... eventually grow up to have lives where low wages are a result, and may be part of the crowd that protests and wants to overtax the group mentioned above.