Hamilton: Balance the Texas budget the smart way

[Guest guest]

You can now see where the current and past Gov. , Lt. Gov. , Speaker of the

House, and elected Reps. and Senators have been using the EMS Trauma Funds.

Simply put it’s been used to balance the budget and not what was dedicated

for. We can stay on the same path with the same folks and not get the funding

paid from collected DWI fines, etc and NOT taxes , or vote them out next

election period and at last we can keep a blind eye as we have.

Ron

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/hamilton-balance-the-texas-budget-the-smart-way\

-1219073.html

[Guest guest]

The same thing happened in New Jersey 2 years ago. NJ had a volunteer EMT

training fund paid for by a surcharge on all traffic violations. It paid

for the basic EMT course, refresher and all ceus's. After $5 million was

taken from the fund, it could no longer pay for ceu clases and NJ has gone

from a 3 year to 5 year certification period to help compensate for the loss.

In a message dated 2/3/2011 12:17:52 A.M. Central Standard Time,

haussecker87@... writes:

You can now see where the current and past Gov. , Lt. Gov. , Speaker of the

House, and elected Reps. and Senators have been using the EMS Trauma

Funds. Simply put it’s been used to balance the budget and not what was

dedicated for. We can stay on the same path with the same folks and not get the

funding paid from collected DWI fines, etc and NOT taxes , or vote them out

next election period and at last we can keep a blind eye as we have.

Ron

_http://www.statesman.com/opinion/hamilton-balance-the-texas-budget-the-smar

t-way-1219073.html_

(http://www.statesman.com/opinion/hamilton-balance-the-texas-budget-the-smart-wa\

y-1219073.html)

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[Guest guest]

The same thing happened in New Jersey 2 years ago. NJ had a volunteer EMT

training fund paid for by a surcharge on all traffic violations. It paid

for the basic EMT course, refresher and all ceus's. After $5 million was

taken from the fund, it could no longer pay for ceu clases and NJ has gone

from a 3 year to 5 year certification period to help compensate for the loss.

In a message dated 2/3/2011 12:17:52 A.M. Central Standard Time,

haussecker87@... writes:

You can now see where the current and past Gov. , Lt. Gov. , Speaker of the

House, and elected Reps. and Senators have been using the EMS Trauma

Funds. Simply put it’s been used to balance the budget and not what was

dedicated for. We can stay on the same path with the same folks and not get the

funding paid from collected DWI fines, etc and NOT taxes , or vote them out

next election period and at last we can keep a blind eye as we have.

Ron

_http://www.statesman.com/opinion/hamilton-balance-the-texas-budget-the-smar

t-way-1219073.html_

(http://www.statesman.com/opinion/hamilton-balance-the-texas-budget-the-smart-wa\

y-1219073.html)

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]