Evan, Fredericksburg
We need better budget choices because our education and healthcare are too important to cut, and because I don’t want to live in a state that doesn’t care about people without a voice.
Toney
Virginia Needs Better Choices - so we can ease gridlock and put people back to work by funding transportation projects.
Natalie
Virginia needs better choices because we need to fund important services like education, public safety, and social services. I’m a graduate student in Education and I believe we need the best materials, teachers, technology and resources to educate the leaders of tomorrow and create a better Virginia.
Peter, Fredericksburg
Virginia needs better budget choices so my parents can stop spending their retirement savings on college tuition for their five children. As teachers themselves, they are already facing reduced pensions and may have to continue working years beyond their planned retirement.
Laughing Stock
Virginia is fast becoming the laughing stock of the nation, and rightly so. Is it really more important to fund tax breaks for coal than to fully fund the education of ALL of our children, even the thousands whose parents don’t care enough to come to a meeting with a teacher or even return a phone call - much less bother to enroll them in a charter school? Are interstate rest areas truly more valuable than public health, especially when there are gas stations, convenience stores, and fast food restaurants at every exit? Should our legislature honestly be spending it’s time debating contraception and medically unnecessary ultrasounds for women seeking legal abortions rather than focusing their attention on bringing our state kicking and screaming into the 21st century? Virginia definitely needs better choices, starting with the Governor and the House of representatives who seem to think they can and should turn the clock back to the 1950’s.
Teacher Struggling
I have been a teacher in Virginia for 29 years. I am trying to buy a home and the mortgage companies say no because teachers just don’t make enough money. I can’t stay in my rental home because the rent has gone up $100 each year but my salary has been frozen for 5 years. Now my retirement is being refigured. At my age that spells disaster for me. I entered an agreement in 1983 and kept my end of the bargain.
Virginia suffers $2.5M loss in Fed Funds to support McDonnells “Political Agenda”
Virginia spends $400,000 on abstinence programs while losing $2.5 million in federal funds due to Gov. Bob McDonnell’s “political agenda.” - Politifact
We can’t afford Politics over what’s best for Virginia. We need real 21st century medical advice and care, not 19th century.
Carl
I have long term care insurance and I do not want it cut. I oppose most of the so-called conservative agenda.
I support paving 42 in Bridgewater, not in the rural areas where it has been repaved, but was as smooth before as now.
The Future Starts Here!!!
What you decide now will shape Virginia for years to come… maybe you don’t plan on living here then, but I do.
Let’s make some common sense decisions to provide a bright future for Virginians!
1. Private School Teachers Don’t Need State Certification: But we’re taking money from the public education system and giving it Private Schools? Seriously? A Kindergartener could tell you that doesn’t make any sense (now) - in a few years a Kindergartener might not be able to.
2. Removing Funding for Teen Pregnancy Prevention - will only lead to teen parents having unwanted children and them “living off of the system,” which ultimately COSTS US MORE MONEY!!!!!
3. Our Elders Once Took Care of Us - now it’s time to take care of them! Don’t leave them high and dry or they’ll leave for sunny Florida - which reduces state tax income.
To believe in the future we need start investing in it now!! Make decisions that make sense and that your constituents support!