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re: La. legislature again proves is a useless body full of worthless people.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:36 am to Midtiger farm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:36 am to Midtiger farm
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Why is the Washington St. exit in BR that rarely gets used still open?
Oh, it's used. That clusterfrick generates a lot of revenue for our local ambulance chasers
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Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:42 am to udtiger
What is the purpose of a bicameral state legislature in a small, low population state like ours? Why do we even have a senate?
ETA: other than to provide a salary and kickbacks to friends
ETA: other than to provide a salary and kickbacks to friends
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 9:44 am
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:44 am to Gaspergou202
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So according to magildachunks refrence to the dotd site, our neighbors in Mississippi and Texas can build and maintain their roads with less!
Texas has more tolls than we have bridges. I'm for installing tolls on every non-interstate bridge over the Mississippi.
Also, you have no idea where those states funding comes from. They could have it tied to gas and sales or income etc.
Our funding only comes from gas tax.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:47 am to magildachunks
And who's fault is that? The frickin legislature. They have the power to fix the state and it's budget problems but choose not to.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 9:48 am
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:50 am to Slippy
It is useless by design. It is working exactly as intended. The legislature makes no difficult decisions that could make individual members vulnerable in elections, the governor holds all the cards with the line-item veto, dedicated funds give them excuses to cut popular programs, and anything really controversial gets the buck passed to the people via a vote on a Constitutional Amendment.
In Louisiana, all meaningful power is wielded by the Governor and those he appoints.
In Louisiana, all meaningful power is wielded by the Governor and those he appoints.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:51 am to FalseProphet
They're going to accomplish a lot during "Special Session".
Yeah, right.
Lots of finger pointing and then declaration of victim status.
Taxin' JBE will lead the way on the latter point.
Yeah, right.
Lots of finger pointing and then declaration of victim status.
Taxin' JBE will lead the way on the latter point.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:00 am to Slippy
I don't see the big deal. It would have been much bigger news had they acted like adults and actually passed something.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:08 am to magildachunks
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And Jindal and his Republican controlled house had at least 7 of those in his 8 years.
They don't care about that. They just want to make shite hard on a democrat.
And you must have partisan amnesia. The folks in control of the House (Cameron Henry et al) DEFINITELY fricked with Jindal as much as they could.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:16 am to BigJim
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you must have partisan amnesia. The folks in control of the House (Cameron Henry et al) DEFINITELY fricked with Jindal
i'm not very partisan, and i don't remember that. what did he do to thwart beej?
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:20 am to 90proofprofessional
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i'm not very partisan, and i don't remember that. what did he do to thwart beej?
They stopped just about every Jindal initiative in his second term including, but not limited to, his attempt at eliminating the state income tax and closing SUNO. Jindal basically got nothing he wanted in his second term. His educational reforms were also severely watered down.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:22 am to kingbob
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They stopped just about every Jindal initiative in his second term including, but not limited to, his attempt at eliminating the state income tax and closing SUNO
very hard to believe that henry had any part of either of those things
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:29 am to udtiger
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Why is the Washington St. exit in BR that rarely gets used still open?
Oh, it's used. That clusterfrick generates a lot of revenue for our local ambulance chasers
It's used a lot by traffic coming down 110. That's what makes it so dangerous. The 110 traffic has to merge right and cross several lanes of traffic to get to it while the bridge traffic has to merge left to avoid it. That's why they're redesigning the exit so that it's on the left side of the road, making it easier for traffic coming from 110 to get off there and clearing the way for the current exit only lane to eventually be extended all the way to College Drive.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 11:16 am
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:33 am to 90proofprofessional
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i'm not very partisan, and i don't remember that. what did he do to thwart beej?
Couple things mostly revolving around the use of one-time money.
One time Jindal teamed up with the dems (of which JBE was the leader, remember) to put back one-time money the Fiscal Hawks removed.
Next year, the Hawks teamed up with the Dems to defeat Jindals budget (though their budget was replete with gimmicks as well, just different ones aka a three year amnesty).
They passed Act 419 to require REC to forecast stat ded revenue.
And a bunch of other small burrs under Jindal's saddle.
Plenty of them got kicked off the Appropriations committee for their trouble.
Now I don't agree with everything they did or tried to do; but hard to say they just gave Jindal a pass.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:36 am to Midtiger farm
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had to do with our Republican controlled house wanting to not spend all the state's revenue because the revenue projection has been wrong 9 times in the last 15 years.
Its called fiscal responsibility. They also presented 2 compromise budgets. The senate presented none.
But our governor and his group of crooks in the Senate like John Alario want to spend all the revenue then when the projection is wrong the state goes in a deficit, then come the tax increases.
This all day long, but you wouldn't know it listening to the local media and propaganda rags like the Advocate.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:39 am to 91TIGER
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This all day long, but you wouldn't know it listening to the local media and propaganda rags like the Advocate.
Well you have to at least fault the leaders in the house for not being better at getting their message out.
They avoided the media after the session failed; big mistake. They should have been pushing their viewpoint.
Not saying the media doesn't lean left, but that just means you have to work harder.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:40 am to tigersbh
quote:i for one am surprised that people in a conservative state are blaming the democrat governor over the republican legislature
I blame the Governor more than them. His answer is to raise still more taxes, and the majority of the Legislature disagrees.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:41 am to Midtiger farm
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But JBE is just as bad if not worse and the house is letting him know they won't be bullied anymore.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:45 am to kingbob
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That's why they're redesigning the exit so that it's on the left side of the road, making it easier for traffic coming from 110 to get off there and clearing the way for the current exit only lane to eventually be extended all the way to College Drive.
Is this actually going to happen?Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:46 am to BigJim
good rollup, i'd agree those things likely pissed bobby off bad. that said, i don't think that stuff quite reaches the same level as torpedoing a budget or a gas tax increase that probably would have gotten thru had the governor been an R. point taken though, and i don't mean to suggest they were exactly in bj's pocket, although he did seem to ride roughshod over them overall
interesting bit there. why would they do this?
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require REC to forecast stat ded revenue
interesting bit there. why would they do this?
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 10:47 am
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:47 am to Machine
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i for one am surprised that people in a conservative state are blaming the democrat governor over the republican legislature
That's like a fish swimming upstream and complaining about how the river is showing an epic failure in leadership.
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