[jshel1]

Texas has been Click it or Ticket for a decade unless my memory fails (sometimes yesterday seems so long ago).

Just passed by the Texas Congress, awaiting President Perry's signature, back seat passengers and third row passengers will be "clicked or ticked" beginning September 1.

The ink is not yet dry on the budget, but the latest reports show that we must keep our citizens safe and add additional sources of revenue so that we may refuse as much federal stimulus moneys as possible (political statement by Office of the President of Texas).

I think our accepted handout was a paultry 1.5 billion of our 91.1billion annualized budget and we are in the black by about 2.5 billion.

(Acceptance of federal stimulus was based upon political alienation issues rather than absolute need; yes on the balanced budget for those wondering).