re: Open letter to Gov Bobby Jindal by Sean Illing

Also interesting that you list Illinois as a shining example: it would cost the state 500 million dollars in just 4 years, yet the state as of now has a budget deficit of 18.5 percent, one of the largest in the country. Where will Illinois get that 500 million?

Illinois:

> Debt per capita: $5,041 (11th-highest)
> Budget deficit: 18.5% (9th-largest)

Only 40.4% of the state's pension obligations were funded in 2012, the worst rate in the nation. Illinois also had the fourth-largest debt in the country at the end of fiscal 2011 at nearly $65 billion.

From the article's website:

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About Us
What is The Red Shtick?

The Red Shtick is the digital offspring (some might say “bastard child”) of Red Shtick Magazine, which served as the only print satirical publication in Louisiana’s capital city for 8½ years. (That’s like 92 in Baton Rouge satirical publication years.)

Like its progenitor, The Red Shtick likes to think of itself as a bold and engaging source of satire and irreverent humor. And while The Red Shtick is completely digital and subsequently limited only by the scope of the worldwide web, it – like its printed precursor – has a tendency to focus on happenings in Baton Rouge and the rest of South Louisiana.

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Who is The Red Shtick?

The Red Shtick is written by a collection of talented contributors representing various backgrounds: black, white, male, female, conservative, liberal, Christian, Buddhist, hell-bound atheist, and even Yankee.



Why does The Red Shtick exist?

The Red Shtick’s mission is to provide the Baton Rouge area (and the rest of the digital world) a comical enema to cure political impaction and cultural constipation.

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C'Mon man, you know it would work as smoothly and profitably as C.A.T.S.

Yeah because Louisiana does not produce politicians that have national ambitions. Other states do that. We produce politicians that go to prison for greed and corruption. Viva Louisiana