What actually gets done at Legislative Sessions?

It seems so puzzling how it seems like whatever the government does, the amount of government debt continues to increase. As the Texas legislature meet at the 82nd Legislative session, the current budget is paid for and the future budget is set. That is all that really got accomplished so far. It seems like there is no plan on how we can stop increasing debt or some how even start repaying debt. Supposedly these people in legislation are somehow qualified to set government budgets yet for some reason debt increases. There are no agreements on what the next step to take on the government debt should be. Whatever the next step should be, there should at least be some kind of progress. Remaining in the same position we are in right now will result in just more and more debt. These Legislative sessions are ment to actually get something done. Hopefully the differnent groups in legislation can agree on some kind of plan to combat the financial crisis so we can start improving the already great state of Texas.