Full-Time Legislature Needed

On May 5, 2016, Veronica Sigler wrote an article discussing the shortcomings of the Texas State Legislature. Her article was straight to the point and I couldn't agree more with every word of it. It is unbelievable that a state with such a population as Texas has only has a part-time legislature. How can 140 days every 2 years be anywhere near sufficient in getting things done in order to improve our state? This policy is setting us up for failure, and I think the results are clear when you see Texas ranked against other states, in areas such as education, for example. Its hard to analyze Sigler's post much more, because she perfectly sums the situation up when she state's "the government is failing us". Such a short session and terrible representation of the state's population within the Legislature  (which I discussed in a previous blog post) leave no room for improvement of this state, which so many hold up in such high esteem. Sigler ends her post perfectly with an urgent request for everyone to get out there and vote. As citizens of Texas, we have so much more power than most realize. We need to take advantage of the voices we have, as we really are lucky to have them. So many places throughout the world don't allow freedom like ours to control the government. But, at the moment, we are living as if we have no say in our government. Nothing will change unless we decide its important to us to get educated and take the reigns out of the hands of the tiny and elite group of wealthy people currently holding all the power. So, I'll end this like Ms. Sigler did: VOTE.