Everything's bigger in Texas, even budget deficits.

As you can see on my previous postings, I care about the education funding quite a bit. An article I read on CNN Money by Tami Luhby, states that Texas' budget plan cuts $31 billion in spending to try and balance out the budget crisis. Education and Medicaid were the two that would be hit particularly hard. Growing up, I've always had people tell me that teaching and the medical field was the way to go with a career. In my previous post, the article was about how Texas was cutting the funds on doctor training programs and how 60% is being slashed from that. Teacher layoffs in Texas were said to cut 100,000 teaching jobs from public schools across Texas because of the huge budget deficit our state is facing right now. 100,000 jobs from public schools is a third of teachers that are employed by public schools. Is the medical and teaching field the safe way to go? As of today I think that we can all agree that it isn't. Governor Rick Perry has a priority to bring jobs to Texas but how is that when so many jobs are being taken away? I have a hard time believing that our state's economy will improve in a couple of years. Our economy is the way it is because our country and state are over populated and jobs aren't able to keep up with the people. Many teachers are losing their jobs while college students are graduating and looking for jobs. When our economy improves, who gets the jobs? Many schools are developing the plans to rehire the teachers they let go but will there be enough jobs for upcoming teachers?  According to Texas on the Brink, Texas is ranked 50th in the United States for having people over 25 with a high school diploma and 43rd for the highschool graduation rate. Texas is known for having a poor education system and it obviously needs to improve but how is that supposed to come about with the budget cuts from education? These kids that are being educated right now are the future of Texas, how is our state supposed to improve when education keeps getting worse?