Will Texas ever ban texting behind the wheel?

Texting while driving has always been an issue for us Texans to come an agreement on. In our country there are about 41 states that ban texting behind the wheel but we are one of the few states that only ban texting on school bus drivers and texting on school zone in most of our cities. Texas tried to ban texting behind the wheel but failed.

An unknown author wrote “Take the pledge on texting and driving” on My San Anthonio's homepage  on September 20, 2013 discussing the bill that was not passed back in April of this year. According to this article there are a few cities that ban electronic use while driving, one example San Antonia where office is very strict, the major himself is in the Mayors against Texting While Driving campaign to help with ban of texting while driving. To research done there was an estimate of 3,000 people that died only from distractions while driving in the prior years, due to this The National transportation Safety Board recommends that we should not use electronic devices while driving. April of this year Texas House passed the 98-47 bill to ban texting while driving. After an intense argument the bill was denied to vote on, and now we are where we started from the beginning.

The unknown author was very straight forward with his siding, if was really obvious that he agrees with the ban of texting and wants to encourage our audience to be aware of the dangerous drivers since the bill did not pass. I do agree with the authors augment, I do believe we should take considerate of the ban and reduce the death of our people on the road. I’m sure that it won’t reduce all the deaths caused by distraction while driving but I’m sure it will reduce enough and that’s better than nothing, anyway what do we have to lose. 

Hating on Obamacare

     I don’t know much about the Affordable Care Act, but I recently received a letter from my job about the health insurance they offer and the changes they made due to this act, which started to take place on Oct 1.  I didn't really have much time to look over the letter, but I should have since my parents insurance took me out because I passed the age limit.

    While skimming through The Texas insider I came across the article Obama Lied, My Health Plan Died by Michelle Malkin, who is known for her conservative blogs and work.  In the article she uses herself as an example and states that she is one of the 22 million Americans who have private insurance and have a wide variety of doctors to choose from, but now after October 1, she stated she cannot use her old doctor and that her insurance plan cannot be continued because of the new law Affordable Care Act. ACA also known as Obamacare is an act that will be fully go in effect on 2014, it is a new set of changes that will help improve our healthcare.  After Milkin explains her issue , she states how Obama has promised to help people keep their doctors and health plan if they wish,  and describes him as a “lier” who caused her health plan to die. Her Audience is people going through the same issue as her, people who lost their health plans due to the new rules.  Throughout the article she starts stating companies and people that face problems with the Obamacare.   You can conclude that Malkin is against the Obamacare because all she states is negative effects that will occur once the Obamacare takes in affect. Towards the end she is very clear and biased and states “Obamacare is destroying the private individual market for health insurance by design, not accident.”  According to me I do understand for her loss but I feel that she just too negative about this Obamacare and she just needs to give it time to sink in.