Texas has to be one of the most unfocused states both in government and politics.  It appears that they spend far too much time focusing on trivial issues, and maybe they need to reevaluate some of their thought processes. If the state simply prioritized a bit more they might find a reduction, if not resolution, to some of the larger state issues.    

For example, Texas was so worried about preventing gay marriage that they thought it would be a good idea to add an amendment to the constitution (as if they don’t have more important issues to be focusing on) which is now causing a new set of issues due to the phrasing, Oops. Apparently, due to the amendment and the way in which it was worded the constitution could very well be miss interpreted as they banned marriage altogether.   

This leads directly into why the state should spend more time focusing on the educational system and its financial needs. For instance, instead of investing tons of time and energy into modifying/updating texts books due to “questionable verbiage” use the books as a partial teaching tool; teach the kids the correct “verbiage” and then redirect those funds towards a different area within the public school system.  

Better yet, instead of rebuilding/restoring the Governor’s Mansion for 3.5 million use that money towards some of the money needed to fund teachers for the educational system.  Texas already has one of the lower graduation completion rates; let’s not compliment the dropouts with more poorly educated young adults, let's pay to keep as many teachers as we can.   I could probably go on and on with more perfectly good examples, but the point is instead of the state using what little money we have on stupid petty things let us refocus as much of our funding as we can on better things.