Well, @JustSomeGuy based on your level of education and choice of profession, as well as your over procreation, I can see why you’re such a whiny, self-righteous twit. The liberal universities in this country have turned out the sorriest group of hand-wringers in the history of this country. My child is a ten-year earlier model of you (40 year old administrator in a public school district in SA) who is also raising his two children and working a second and third job to finish paying off his college debt. He is also as conservative and non-racially-bigoted as I am, which is very. You are obviously a bundle of emotions, with no logic or common sense to draw on. What part of $10.4 MILLION dollars a year, for the next eight years do you really believe will go to any children? Why should anyone else pay for day care (couched as Pre-K “education”) for the children of anyone else? That’s how your “tiny little tax increase” shreds out at $8 a year per person, which is the current best estimate from the mayor. Did they not consider the cost of children when they chose to breed? Why do you believe that the city of San Antonio has any business funding any portion of education? Have you never taken a government class? Oh, by the way, YOU’RE an idiot, regardless of how @trutex spelled it. I expect a class action law suit to be filed on this issue. Oh, and kudos, @trutex! Oh, and @cilygames, if I have to pay a tax I can’t vote for, it’s NOT my city. It’s taxation without representation.

unfortunately we are becoming a country government by those elected by the lazy and inept. The more we allow them to feed the more numerous they will become.

PreK for S.A.: Training ground for young Socialists, funded by the taxpayer.

Thank you for correcting my typos justsomeguy, be careful that you never make one on this site or they now will quickly be shoved in your face. You obviously don’t blog much or that is a path you would never go down. I called you a liberal because you come off as a pompous ass. Of that no one reading your comments has any doubt, your belief in the 2nd Amdt notwithstanding. And your further sidebar down the lane of global warming, tree hugging, etc. is irrelevant to the fact that your (sic) a pompous ass. And OK, so you are instead a crazy nut-job swallowing all the brainwashed garble straight from some leftist talk show. Whatever. But let's not back track, let’s keep going. The pejorative terms racist, hater, etc. which you think makes you come off as sooo enlightened are nothing more than shout-down terms idiots throw at those they disagree with and which have been so overused they now retain no cache' whatsoever. And to end on topic, I already pay through the nose for public education, the cost of which has NEVER been higher and the returns more questionable leading of course to now more demands for more taxes for more programs under the guise of education, itself an admission that the former is failing, but in reality is nothing more than a taxpayer funded babysitting program. You may insist that this is about education but that means you are not an honest liberal. Or whatever political, gender, racial or entomological neutral term you no doubt refer to yourself as. Welcome to the world of blogging.

There were parts of Bexar County that were not able to vote on the Pre-K for SA initiative. The reason is they did not live within the city limits. Not sure how a city can request an increase in a county sales tax and not allow all individuals of that county to vote. Sad day for San Antonio.

So many sore losers here who hate the democratic process. It was chosen in a vote, folks. Get over yourselves. This isn't your country, or my country--it's our country and our city. That means you've gotta compromise sometimes whether you like it or not.

ok, trutex, I won't be called an idiot by someone who can't write 'you're' in the place of 'you are'; let's just start with that. (twice you did so) You don't want to 'hand out' money for those who don't want to do for themselves, I get that. I also get that you don't want anyone strong-arming you into giving up your money to do so; I get that too. Let me clear some things up for you really quick, you presumptuous hate-monger.. I'm NOT a liberal; but I'm definitely NOT a crazy nut-job swallowing all the brainwashed garble straight from some far-right talk show's host either, mon frere. I believe we should have the right to own guns; not only for hunting, mind you, but for killing someone threatening the lives and health of my family. You feel me, right? I don't believe that human activity is to blame for the world getting hotter either. You probably thought I did, didn't you? You think I want to hug on trees and hold everyone's hand as we skip into never-never land? You are mistaken; I am no "liberal", as you so eloquently declared with as much charged fervor as your high-and-mighty self could muster. So let's re-track it a bit, chief, shall we? And while we're doing that, wipe your maw clean of your frothy spittle and huff-and-puff in a big paper bag for just a minute before you spout off some more unfounded chastisements at me for the sake of (NOT) being an idiot. I still stand by my original statements.. read back and you'll see the many racial and socio-economic generalizations, stereotypes & slurs that have been said (or you won't); it's atrocious, plain & simple. It's directly inflammatory and perverse at times. Now, back to the "topic", as you so demand.. Here's something to consider.. You don't want to pay the tiny little tax increase (that may be an overstepping of the educational system's obligation to regulate such areas), then buy less stuff. I can just as well say it helps get people out of poverty as you can assert it's solely daycare

No JustsomeGuy, your justsomeidiot. You say you are loaded with debt. Who's problem is that? Your neighbors? Apparently so. You are a typical liberal who calls anyone who does not share their entitlement ideology a racist, a hater, fill-in-fav-lib-insult-here. This is a baby sitting program, period. Any honest liberal will admit that, at least to himself, unless they are beyond deluded, which some are. Compassion you fool is when you open YOUR wallet and take YOUR money out and give it to charity, not when you coerce it from your neighbor. And what does not wanting to fund yet another liberal boondoggle that will do nothing more than increase the entitlement mentality have to do with all the other typical liberal mindless boilerplate BS that you repeat here for no doubt the millionth time when you didn't agree with someone? Besides providing you the opportunity for some pompous deliquescence that is. As for families that could use this or that, well who couldn't use some other taxpayer somewhere picking up the tab for some portion of his/her livelihood? Bottom line is not one person posting or reading these comments gives one red rat's petudy what you think any more than the next schmoe's opinion. So spare everyone your pretentious spiel and stick to commenting about the topic.

Use to be that big gov't kept better tabs on people with their hand out. Case workers would do unannounced and random checks to see that these women weren't shacking up,they also kept tabs on the kids welfare. Don't know when that was phased out. If they, SA/ Bexar county wouldn't have such high priced individuals in upper mgnt. we could have money left over for situations such as this.

I just want to start with I'm a white man, 30 years old and went to college; now I'm a middle school teacher with 4 kids, and still married.. I'm really loaded with debt. That being said, I now want to condemn all these racist, vile, hate-filled comments I've been reading.. How dare you all spout off anti-latino slurs and mouth-foaming poison toward the poor. My 3 year-old boy and 8 month-old girl may not qualify or even go to pre-k if they do; but am I going get so bent out of shape over this redistribution of taxes to help less fortunate families benefit from this circumstance, no. I don't even mind that some families may indeed take advantage of it. The ones who will benefit are reason enough to endorse the deal, and I did. I know families who work 2-3 jobs per parent and still struggle. I know families who don't 'parent' well because they're providing like parents should. I can see it being easy for someone with a single well paying job that makes ends meet - though under debt and through sacrifices - to criticize this initiative. I still see the folly in their doing so, however. It seems that compassion and real understanding of people they don't know is terribly lacking; and why should that be of any surprise? History shows that little kids raised in racist communities or families grow up believing the views passed down to them about people their elders hate, without ever truly trying to get to know, or understand the 'other' people at all. My heart sank as I read nearly all 38 posts following this small article and realizing that out of those I read, 1 or 2 posts WEREN'T filled with spite, anger, hatred, bigotry, or other ill-minded rhetoric I'd expect from those with little understanding about the state of human turmoil.. There are families that really could use a year start for their kids to become acclimated and accustomed to school life, and even some from non-English dominant homes who could use a year in English immersion before kindergarten