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re: When Edwards lays off 50 State Troopers
Posted on 2/12/16 at 3:58 pm to mxs1998
Posted on 2/12/16 at 3:58 pm to mxs1998
To say Jindals administration was the cause or worsened the shortfall is more or less correct...he was the Governor for the majority of this fiscal term....I believe the vast majority of the citizens are not outraged there is a 900M shortfall this fiscal term....it's the manner in which Edwards is proposing to fix the problem and using his "scare tactics" during his public address....you don't go suspending TOPS and threatening to shut down all higher education facilities in the state including the football program was idiotic and insulting....no one in this state will fall for that shite....be a man and say....we are short, we have to scale back programs, government...we will do our best to have the least impact to the vast majority and we will have to have a tax increase....not that bullshite he pulled last night....painting a picture that you can't live with and hoping you will be happy with less than total collapse of state government! No one can possibly blame Edwards for the state of our financial affairs, but you can certainly point your finger at a shite missle when he opens his mouth to remove all doubt....want to talk about historical? That was a historical cluster Frick of an address last night....he certainly showed what he is made of....I'd love to build a montage of all the lies he told campaigning vs what he is saying now! TYPICAL
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Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:11 pm to tigerbutt
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So staff gets immediate raises, he expands Medicaid yet threatens to raise taxes and cut education. Voters picked a fine one this time around. Enjoy dumbass democrats.
Go back to the GOP board.
Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:14 pm to BRgetthenet
Why would he lay off 50 troopers?
Why not any one of the million other things?
Why not legalize pot and tax the shite out of it?
Why not any one of the million other things?
Why not legalize pot and tax the shite out of it?
Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:14 pm to AwesomeSauce
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He was on Jindal's budget committee. Yes La voters were dumb enough to elect a democrat who was part of that budget committee because he didn't have a documented affair. Apparently La voters prefer to be the ones getting the shaft, not prostitutes.
Vitter was an unlikable career politician with no accomplishments and didn't even show up at some debates. He excited no one and had no ideas. In addition to being a "family values" hypocrite. You should be more annoyed that your fellow republicans rejected viable candidates in favor of Vitter in the first place.
Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:26 pm to biglego
You bring up a valid point....Republicans crapped the bed with Vitter....Campaign aside, parties aside, how/who we got here aside....Edwards "address" last night was a shite show and demonstrates everything that is wrong with La politics....he did nothing but hurt the state....It was historically Stupid....I wasn't even mad he was Governor because Vitter was such a poor candidate...I expected it....what I didn't expect is a Moronic rant I witnessed last night....laughable how tragic that was...he basically killed any agenda he had last night....who is going to associate themselves with his idiotic thought process? No one will align with his administration and work with that!
Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:43 pm to biglego
I am also amazed at how JBE gets his shite pushed in over his speech when he was laying all our problems bare. No one should believe that we won't have football next season just bc he says it's a possibility. If you lay the worst case scenario out there, people have to reckon with it and do what needs to be done. And I believe he did it bc of the partisanship apparent in our state politics. Jindal didn't do what he was supposed to because he signed that no taxes pledge. He inherited a surplus and left us a deficit. People also talk about the medicaid expansion but never mention that it's paid for by the Feds and Obama even is allowing for waivers for those states who didn't accept it initially so that they can get the full 3 years before the states' shares if the burden increases to only 10% of the total. It's our tax dollars anyway so might as well bring them home! And Kennedy's rebuttal offered nothing to go off of last night. We will have to tax and cut spending and just because JBE threw some ideas out there doesn't mean that's the way it has to be done. But it does provide a starting point for negotiating. I've already contacted my elect representatives: rep. Foil and Sen. Colomb to see what they have to proffer in all this and I expect a deal to be made
Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:43 pm to OptionRight
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To say Jindals administration was the cause or worsened the shortfall is more or less correct...he was the Governor for the majority of this fiscal term....I believe the vast majority of the citizens are not outraged there is a 900M shortfall this fiscal term....it's the manner in which Edwards is proposing to fix the problem and using his "scare tactics" during his public address....you don't go suspending TOPS and threatening to shut down all higher education facilities in the state including the football program was idiotic and insulting....no one in this state will fall for that shite....be a man and say....we are short, we have to scale back programs, government...we will do our best to have the least impact to the vast majority and we will have to have a tax increase....not that bullshite he pulled last night....painting a picture that you can't live with and hoping you will be happy with less than total collapse of state government! No one can possibly blame Edwards for the state of our financial affairs, but you can certainly point your finger at a shite missle when he opens his mouth to remove all doubt....want to talk about historical? That was a historical cluster Frick of an address last night....he certainly showed what he is made of....I'd love to build a montage of all the lies he told campaigning vs what he is saying now! TYPICAL
Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:50 pm to tigerbutt
quote:you do realize that Jindal constantly underestimated TOPS (by a large margin) to make himself look better for his president run?
Enjoy dumbass democrats.
Posted on 2/12/16 at 4:59 pm to Kafka
OK, I did laugh at the wall of text thing...I get it...there's so much to say doe...if I'd just prefaced with Baw and referenced trucker nuts and tree fiddy...I might've faired better....
Posted on 2/12/16 at 5:17 pm to mxs1998
Good call Barack. How long you gonna use that one?
Posted on 2/12/16 at 5:21 pm to Slippin Jimmy
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People also talk about the medicaid expansion but never mention that it's paid for by the Feds and Obama even is allowing for waivers for those states who didn't accept it initially so that they can get the full 3 years before the states' shares if the burden increases to only 10% of the total.
10% of that total is a huge cost to a bankrupt state like LA
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We will have to tax and cut spending and just because JBE threw some ideas out there doesn't mean that's the way it has to be done. But it does provide a starting point for negotiating.
his "starting point" with TOPS was dishonest and downright immoral. he went for political points and should be raked over the coals for it
we are way too poor of a state to be spending what we do in state government
things like expanding government programs (medicaid) and cutting restrictions to others (welfare) are the opposite of what needs to be done
jindal's failure was never forcing a constitutional convention to give our legislature more power and our budget more leeway in cutting
Posted on 2/12/16 at 5:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
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10% of that total is a huge cost to a bankrupt state like LA
It is a huge cost to any state, much less one that can't balance a budget. It took a program that was killing the state and dumped more unfunded liabilities on top of it in perpetuity. One of the finest things Jindal ever did was avoiding that fiscal blackhole.
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jindal's failure was never forcing a constitutional convention to give our legislature more power and our budget more leeway in cutting
He never did it because it would have killed his iron-grip on the legislature. It is the worst kept secret in Louisiana politics that the legislators want the handcuffs so they can skirt responsibility for the hardest thing in state government, budgeting.
This post was edited on 2/12/16 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 2/12/16 at 6:21 pm to TigersforEver
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I wonder how much we could save by eliminating the entire State Police. Good place to start.
Eliminate one of the few governmental agencies that actually brings in revenue, sounds really smart. He should double down on the lsp budget so they can start running academies back to back to increase generating revenue
Posted on 2/12/16 at 6:21 pm to tigerbutt
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So staff gets immediate raises, he expands Medicaid yet threatens to raise taxes and cut education. Voters picked a fine one this time around. Enjoy dumbass democrats.
Maybe republicans who voted for JBE will learn now that it's the policies and what they support that matters the most, not who they sleep with and whatever else they do on their own time as that shite is irrelevant.
Posted on 2/12/16 at 6:23 pm to mxs1998
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Of course, this dickwad will get 0% of the blame around here.
Just because Jindal was a phony and a fraudulent conservative that only gave lip service and smoke and mirrors to the budget does not mean that JBE is making it any better.
JBE has no business asking for the taxes that he wants without cutting state gov't and other programs. You have to have both.
Posted on 2/12/16 at 6:37 pm to biglego
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Vitter was an unlikable career politician
Vitter started out as a republican in the early 90s when this state was still a pretty blue democrat state instead of the blood red state it is now and he was a constant pain in the arse of Edwin Edwards and corrupt assholes down in Jefferson Parish like Newel Normand and harry lee.
He had the right kind of enemies that I liked, ambulance chasers, liberals, family forum type social conservatives, and basically any others who benefit from big gov't hated him with a passion. I liked that.
Vitter had a pretty conservative voting record in congress too especially on issues that were state issues.
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had no ideas
Vitter had one of the most expansive and fleshed out issues section on his website out of all the four candidates.
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In addition to being a "family values" hypocrite.
That's going to look like small potatoes the worse JBE gets.
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You should be more annoyed that your fellow republicans rejected viable candidates in favor of Vitter in the first place.
I'm annoyed how they trashed Vitter on personal and character issues that had diddly shite with how this state is run and didn't touch JBE until it was tool late.
Dardenne and Angelle were untrustworthy and spotty conservatives at best.
Angelle is Jindal's buttboy and was clsoely associated with his inner circle. He was also a democrat for 25 years that associated himself with Edwin Edwards types and the man himself. He only switched to republican because it was politically expedient.
Dardenne? I had my suscpions about him for the longest time starting when he pushed through the film subsidies that are a money pit with absolutely no ROI whatsoever and I felt he had no conservative principles whatsoever.
It didn't take very long for those suspicions to be proven correct when Dardenne endorsed JBE and took a job with him and won't give up his bloated salary. He's a piece of shite. frick him.
Vitter was the best candidate for Governor last fall. We missed an opportunity with him.
This post was edited on 2/12/16 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 2/12/16 at 6:53 pm to Bulletproof Lover
I was told by the arse't HR director at DPS years ago that the governor would lay off God before he laid off one state trooper. 
This post was edited on 2/12/16 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 2/12/16 at 6:56 pm to Godfather1
You'd be surprised at how many commissioned desk jockies that are employed by the State Police who never go near the road.
Posted on 2/12/16 at 6:59 pm to TigersforEver
It did not make much of a media splash, as the media was/is in love with him for a few short mths, but the State Trooper's Association's board endorsed him. A first ever for the association. FWIW
Posted on 2/12/16 at 7:03 pm to Keltic Tiger
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the State Trooper's Association's board endorsed him. A first ever for the association. FWIW
There is no way that was a legit endorsement that was free of coercion.
It stinks of corruption with Edmondson.
If they endorsed Vitter, you can bet the press would've covered it with a fine tooth comb.
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