This is what the Tennessee Legislature feels is worth its time and energy.
Even though Tennessee has the tenth highest poverty rate in the nation.
Even though Tennessee has the third worst high school graduation rate in the nation.
Even though Tennessee has the eighteenth highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation.
Even though poor, rural communities in Tennessee have raging meth epidemics.
Even though Tennessee has some of the worst health care in the nation, including over 200,000 people having recently lost access to any kind of healthcare through cuts in the state health care system, Tenncare. We have no idea how many people have died as a result of these cuts, but some estimates put the number in the hundreds.
I could go on. I could cite lots of different studies with conflicting statistics, but the overwhelming consensus is that our state has major problems: problems so huge that only entities like state and national governments are equipped to handle them. And our elected representatives feel that the best use of their time and our tax dollars is to debate whether kids low-riding their pants like gangster rappers? Imitating silly fashions from rap videos is now an offense against the state?
Is it really any wonder that our state is so behind? Is it any wonder that our region of the country is a national joke?
Please pray for the state of Tennessee. We have a very long way to go.
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"A bill currently before the Tennessee State Legislature would make "low-riding" your pants a crime."
So will this put plumbers out of business? LOL!
If visible crack eats away at the very fundament of society, then they also ought to do something about young ladies wearing hip-hugger jeans.
On the other hand, one could just look away. Not everything visible needs to be seen.
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