re: Did JBE create the financial shortfall?

1. Jindal created huge problems for the state that we will have to overcome for several years;
2. on top of that, we have suffered a collapse of Oil and gas prices which is an important part of our tax revenues. This was not the fault of Jindal, but he refused to forthrightly deal with it in revenue projections.
3. JBE is not lying but he is giving doomsday scenarios to try to get everyone's attention. Every governor since Roemer has done this, but JBE's is more dramatic. Circumstances may be dire enough to justify this, but it is politics.
4. Football will not be affected and schools will not close, except possibly some of the Southern system over the next few years.