Open letter to Gov Bobby Jindal by Sean Illing

I could have just gone to the local coffee shop and heard the same talking points.

Short summary. He covers all the liberal agenda:

Uses the term Tea Baggers

Criticizes Jindal for:

1.) Canceling high speed rail from BR to Nola
2.) Cutting Higher Education Budget
3.) Not Expanding Medicaid under Obamacare
4.) Trying to stop the lawsuits against the oil and gas industry.

Same ole, same ole.

Just for clarification. I support Jindal on all those issues.

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3.) Not Expanding Medicaid under Obamacare

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, do the gas bags that complain about this even know the actual words of the law? The federal government only pays 100% for the first three years. After that, and increasingly each year, the state must pick up the tab. That is a huge amount of money for a state to pay.

The governor of any state is an executive. He is not elected to serve rich people or poor people or any other group at the expense of all others. Accepting medicaid expansion is a foolish decision for anyone to make, and it is a decision that fails to look at long term problems. The imbecile who wrote this needs to get educated on the subject before he spews talking points.

Bravo Jindal on not fricking your state's future budget by expanding medicaid. It's too bad many other states will find out the hard way.

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1.) Canceling high speed rail from BR to Nola

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Good idea but that thing would hemorrhage money from day 1. I would imaginethat train would be trashed within a week as well.

After reading the letter, I'm fairly certain Mr. Illing has never had to manage a budget. His entire position boils down to "I don't like you because you won't spend a shite ton of money that we don't have on stuff I like."

It's pretty depressing seeing all the gratuitous comments for such a childishly written article.

Yeah. I cuss. A lot. But, if you want to be taken seriously, you don't write or speak like that. Save that for informal situations only. He comes off like a bratty kid.

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Good idea but that thing would hemorrhage money from day 1.

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Amtrak called, said "STFU!"

I think Sean Illing is retarded.

Jindal is a political animal but the author of that piece is just wrong.

The cuts he mentioned just did not happen to the degree he describes.

Jindal was right to oppose the rail. It should be done by private entities if it is viable and it is not.

Jindal was right to sign 469. Nothing is more hypocritical than for those government entities who have shared in the oil companies profits to be suing for the same activities they profited for. Ask them to return their lease and royalties payments they received over the years and they will promptly drop their suites.

The author should not have been so profane.

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I don't agree with this. Let them go to court.

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How could ANY American be okay with unilaterally exempting a whole industry from repercussions for their actions?

fricking disgusting.