Post War Help

The Editorial “Post-war help for families” talks about post partum depression of soldiers when they return from war and finding help for them. Too many of them return home only to live their very own nightmare. These veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan put up with psychological scars the eye won't see, but their wounds often reach deep into their core with overwhelming consequences. The soldiers coming home no matter from war, training or other experiences they may encounter should be required to go under evaluation. The government should keep record of these soldiers and as times and years pass by they should do evaluations and get them in their to see how they doing emotional and mental in their daily lives, and always offer a ear when they want to talk . For example, my father is a Vietnam veteran and he never received any counseling after the war, he was in some serious fighting over there and he never talked about. Now after all these years he is actually talking to a counselor and trying to get thru it. They thing he said that made him have flashbacks or memories was when the first reports of the Iraq war when he heard all the gun fire and the bombs going off , he said that he froze and had flashbacks. So, know when he able to talk about a least there are more advance in therapy to treat these war soldiers. So if the government is able to catch and treat these soldiers right after they come home and at home maybe we can have less families struggling to deal with post partum

Austin School Tax Increase

I was reading the editorial about Austin school district tax increase: Voters should approve pay raises for teachers by the EDITORIAL BOARD. When I was reading this editorial it was a little confusing and is a catch 22. I agree that voters should approve pay raises for teacher and other full time staff. When voters vote “yes” on this it will raise property tax in Travis County so teachers and staff will get a raise, the school district will get a better percentage out of the tax to pay for these raises. So let say the teachers and staff live in Travis County ( which almost all of them do) they have to pay the higher tax , when they do they are paying for their raises , because the money that they are paying on higher taxes is going to the district, in which is giving them the raises. So it a catch 22 for the teachers and staff in the district to pay these taxes, they would be paying for their own raises, it goes in circles they more money they get in raises they have to pay higher taxes. I am all for giving raises to teachers and other staff, they are teaching these children, these children our country future. When it comes to raises Travis County should have to come up with maybe a better way of does this without it play a catch 22 for these teachers.

Texas Falling Gas Prices

The retail of gasoline prices keep dropping across Texas as crude oil prices fall on world markets. This means great news for Texans. This means that people finally afford to put gas in their tanks. This article gets me excited because every day I drive from south Austin all the way to Round Rock by IKEA. I have been car pulling and trying not to drive as much on the weekends, just trying to safe as much money as I can. I tell everybody remember the days that we all used to pay like a $1.98 and when we used to fill up on $20 dollars of gas and that was great, instead of paying $60 dollars for a tank. For now I really hope that the gas prices keep on falling and falling so that we can one day reach that goal of filling up our gas tanks for $20 dollars once more! Then maybe once that keeps moving then people will start saving money and then maybe we can help our weak economy. Then finally I can afford to by some awesome groceries. The Link is http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=9157707