Blog #5 The Texas Senate's biggest spenders

I came across this article while lookin for an article for this assignment, The Texas Senate's biggest spenders. The article talks about how much the Senate spent from September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2010, in that fiscal year the senate spent 16 billion dollars on routine administrative and travel expenses. On average that is $500,000 dollars for every senator of a 31-member body according to the records of that year individual spending of the lowest spender was around $205,000 who didnt even serve a full fiscal year. Based on the needs of thir districts and the make up of the district each senator can spend the taxpayers money as he or she pleases. The senate puts no restriction on how many districts each senator can have so each senator can continue to spend as much of the taxpayers money they wish on "campaigns" to help them get elected. Senators also spend money on subscribtions to two newpapers so they are able to get their name out but these senators are such frugal spenders they dont take into consideration that the source of their money is coming from the very people they expect to vote for them but if the senators of these states countiue to spend the taxpayers this fugaly the people that vote for these senators will lose trust in the fact that the government is trying to help the economy yet countines to spend money like it grows on trees.