Religion

I totally agree with your statement about religion. I believe there should definitely be a separation between school and church. A child should not be pressured with religion on top of academics. It should be evoked at home, I also totally agree with the commentary on if you want your child to go to a religious school than you enroll them in one. But again I do not agree with religion in public school. I do agree teaching about it as I learned it minimally in my History class growing up. But nowadays it seems like they are taking more and more out of our textbooks because its not important enough. If I had a child id want them to be well informed of other cultures and religions. And I have to agree with the pledge of allegiance keep the "under god" part, its American and if people don't like it they don't have to say it. I think it should remain in schools and not rebuttal should be placed on it. But overall I totally agree with you :)

This Thing Called " The Immigration Reform"

Immigration, one of the biggest topics in President Obama's campaign, that and of course the now infamous Health care Reform. It seems though that this Immigration Reform keeps getting extended and pushed back. Now Texas is the second largest immigrant populated state right under California. So this reform has been a reform people have been patiently waiting for since it first arose in the Bush presidency. Well now since the Health care bill has passed and all the commotion that was attached to it, seems to me that it would be a smart move for the Democrats to wait it out before bringing it up. Seems that people are starting to become inpatient.To me this reform seems to be great, and would greatly benefit the state as well as benefiting the nation.
Now it we were to get these illegal aliens to all contribute and do things the right was, for example paying taxes and follow our rules like we all do in a daily basis. This leads me to the Census that just occurred, I really wish that all immigrants would fill this out to give the state an idea of the much needed funding for the education of their kids. Instead they don't fill it out because they are scared that the government is coming after them. I can test to this personally, being a first generation citizen here in the states, growing up I witness the fear in my families lives on a day to day basis. My parents were immigrants at one point but did things the right way and eventually obtained their citizenship. But I do have several friends that are illegal here and are looking forward to the Immigration Reform.
But what does piss me off personally is that they are here in the states illegally, not paying taxes, and yet using my tax dollars to get an education for free. Which to me is not cool; I bust my butt everyday I work a full time job, so I can have health benefits and pay for my education. And this person has no job , school is free, and still has the nerve to ask me if I happen to know anyone that has a spare social because they are thinking of getting a job with someone Else's identity... REALLY.. But hopefully with this reform (if it ever happens) someone can look into this and fix it. I'm just tired of people living off of me I really look foward to reading this bill when released and seeing where they are going with this.