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re: Louisiana budget shortfall: should we repeal State Trooper raises?
Posted on 2/11/15 at 12:54 pm to magildachunks
Posted on 2/11/15 at 12:54 pm to magildachunks
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money is being generated by LSP:
pretty sure the same can't be said about higher ed. I don't know that public higher ed has ever actually paid for itself. Higher Ed can take a hit and should. Its a bloated, inefficient system that needs to live within its means and get off of the taxpayers credit card.
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300 million being cut from Higher Ed. Gas economy suffering. On verge of getting lowered credit rating for 7 years of budget shortfalls, yet they get a 20% raise?
money is being generated by LSP:
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Starting pay, with benefits, would go from around $35,000 to $46,000. The increase was approved last summer but the money just became available, and still needs to be shifted from a fund that collects increased fines from drivers without insurance. The joint legislative budget committee is set to vote on moving that money Friday.
Louisiana State Police says the raise is well over due, especially when comparing their current salary to departments like Gonzales that start pay at about $44,000 a year. But departments like Baton Rouge that start pay around $31,000 a year complain it puts them at a disadvantage, especially when it comes to recruiting new officers.
pretty sure the same can't be said about higher ed. I don't know that public higher ed has ever actually paid for itself. Higher Ed can take a hit and should. Its a bloated, inefficient system that needs to live within its means and get off of the taxpayers credit card.
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Posted on 2/11/15 at 12:59 pm to tigerinthebueche
Higher ed should be cut if the correct cuts are made. Hammering every school equally is stupid. LSU, SLU, La tech, ULL pull weight. There are plenty of schools that don't pull weight and they should be on the chopping block. We have far too many colleges for a state our size. The issue happens to be the schools that deserve to be slashed or even closed wont be. They will only slash across the board.
It is just stupid to look at higher education as the only thing that needs to be slashed. I could go through the budget and find program after program that is worthless. Higher Education might not directly fund its self but if you destroy higher education then you are hurting the state. The smart students will leave in even higher numbers and make homes elsewhere. Then you have a state that has very little home grown talent and businesses wont even look at coming.
It is just stupid to look at higher education as the only thing that needs to be slashed. I could go through the budget and find program after program that is worthless. Higher Education might not directly fund its self but if you destroy higher education then you are hurting the state. The smart students will leave in even higher numbers and make homes elsewhere. Then you have a state that has very little home grown talent and businesses wont even look at coming.
Posted on 2/11/15 at 1:06 pm to tigerinthebueche
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money is being generated by LSP:
No.
That revenue is not coming from LSP. And a good bit of their operating costs are taken from DOTD funds at will.
Also, the state still has to put money back into the state retirement fund, which was raided years ago, and they haven't put one cent back on.
Shouldn't that money go towards that?
Posted on 2/11/15 at 1:26 pm to tigerinthebueche
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Louisiana State Police says the raise is well over due, especially when comparing their current salary to departments like Gonzales that start pay at about $44,000 a year. But departments like Baton Rouge that start pay around $31,000 a year complain it puts them at a disadvantage, especially when it comes to recruiting new officers
Seems about right, I see the same 5 or 6 sitting in the median on 20 shooting the shite every morning in their Tahoes - they park perfectly so they can let the engines run and roll the windows down to talk, and they had 2 full time directing traffic at the new Dairy Queen in West Monroe.
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