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Write 2 pages thesis on the topic texas education budget cuts. Why Texas’ Plan to Cut the School Budget is Wrong of the Faced with falling municipal revenues due to economic conditions not seen since the Great Depression, Texas, like many other states, is faced with tough budgetary choices. This paper addresses why Texas’ public school budgets should be exempt from budget cuts and examines some of the effects such cuts would have on the state, on our community and on the future of our children. Why Texas’ Plan to Cut the School Budget is Wrong “To eat the seed corn” means to eat the corn that was meant be saved to start next year’s harvest. The expression describes an act of desperation. a deal with the devil done to provide short-term relief that merely forestalls a now-guaranteed disastrous long-term consequence, for it turns temporary hunger pangs into inevitable starvation. To eat the next year’s seeds is to fail to invest in the future. It is myopic generational theft that insidiously steals from tomorrow by mortgaging the future. Such is the same with Texas’ ill-conceived plan to cut public school budgets. We’ve all heard the mantra that the future is high-tech and in Texas, even traditionally low-tech industries like oil exploration have gone high-tech. According to Southwest Economy: The history of Texas lies in cattle and oil. But increasingly, the future of the state is becoming linked with the ever-evolving high-tech industry. High-tech employment has grown more than twice as fast in Texas as it has in the nation during the 1990s...