Twogether in Texas: how cute, how unnecessary

The state is spending $16 million of our taxes on a pre-marriage counseling program. Government officials say it's needed to curb the growing divorce rate. Although those already married can get advice, it looks to me as if this program is geared to those who have not yet tied the knot.

In the great scheme of government things, $16 million isn't a whole lot of money (although more than I'll ever see in my lifetime), but it seems to me that in an era when our public school teachers are woefully underpaid, when the DISD is forced to layoff teachers, the state could find better uses for this money.