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Louisiana is doomed. We're all doomed.

Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:18 pm
Posted by Slippy
Across the rivah
Member since Aug 2005
6593 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:18 pm
I don't want to be alarmist about this. The modern world in general is a mostly unliveable place. Society is in decay. But Louisiana seems to be the trendsetter. Think about it.

Skyrocketing crime rates in the bigger cities.
Inability of local governments to pay for necessary law enforcement and other basic services.
Addicts everywhere (pills, meth, heroin), with numbers growing daily.
Hundreds of thousands of poor people taxing our health care system.
30% high school dropout rate (in 2017!) and we're being told it's improving.
Crumbling infrastructure, and the absence of funds to pay for maintenance, much less improvements.
Personal injury lawyers dominating TV screens and billboards, selling dreams of riches and causing forced income redistribution via insurance companies. (90% of suits pending in Louisiana courts are personal injury suits.)
Corrupt, self-dealing politicians, judges, and civil servants.
Lack of lynchpin industries (bye bye O&G), causing conversion to service economy in a state where nobody has any money.
People with brains (and money) leaving and taking their tax dollars with them, leaving fewer of us to support the parasitic underclass.
Too many fricking nail salons.
Oh, I almost forgot: the constant threat of utter decimation by Mother Nature.
I'm sure I am forgetting a bunch of stuff.

But hey, we still have Coach O. One team, one heartbeat. Geaux Tigers.
Posted by BayouBengals03
lsu14always
Member since Nov 2007
99999 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:19 pm to
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Too many fricking nail salons.

Definitely my biggest concern
Posted by Lacour
Member since Nov 2009
32949 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:20 pm to
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Posted by Doomaflochie
Member since Jan 2011
285 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:20 pm to
Tldr


but I agree in general
Posted by rmnldr
Member since Oct 2013
38240 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:20 pm to
I think the amount of nail salons is reasonable tbh
Posted by Devil_doge
DFW
Member since Sep 2016
2499 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:21 pm to
Too much cultcha.

Posted by Gladesman
The Glades
Member since Jul 2017
26 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:21 pm to
Wait 40 years when there is no more O&G in LA. It will become the Detroit of the South.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
114038 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:22 pm to
quote:

The modern world in general is a mostly unliveable place.


frick this. I'd rather live in today's world than in most of the 1800s.. I like having sewage, electricity and all this shite. Politicians have always been corrupt.
Posted by Seaux_cal_tiger
Member since Sep 2016
394 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:23 pm to
Taking down all the Confederate monuments will help get us back on track though.
Posted by DustyDinkleman
Here
Member since Feb 2012
18176 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:23 pm to
CSB
Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:24 pm to
quote:

We're all doomed


What's this "we" shite? Y'all are all doomed, up here we will be just fine. We got snow and no black people.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
75263 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:26 pm to
When was Louisiana trending upwards? Seems like dystopian-like dysfunction for years upon years now.
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29453 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:27 pm to
quote:

But Louisiana seems to be the trendsetter.
quote:

the constant threat of utter decimation by Mother Nature.

Are you saying the rest of the country will start having hurricanes due to a trend started in Louisiana? Talk about some hipster shite.

"Hurricanes were so much cooler before Katrina. Now everyone's into them."
Posted by aVatiger
Water
Member since Jan 2006
27967 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:27 pm to
Oh you didn't know?


YOUR arse BETTER CALLLLL SOMEBODY!!1
Posted by BigPerm30
Member since Aug 2011
26009 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:28 pm to
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Hundreds of thousands of poor people taxing our health care system.


I agree but you forgot about all the fat people too.
Posted by Pecker
Rocky Top
Member since May 2015
16674 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:33 pm to
I'm not doomed.
Posted by LSU-MNCBABY
Knightsgate
Member since Jan 2004
24371 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:39 pm to
I post this every time someone tries to compare any city in Louisiana to somewhere else but.... look at the demographics and there is your answer.
Posted by LongueCarabine
Pointe Aux Pins, LA
Member since Jan 2011
8205 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

I don't want to be alarmist about this.

Skyrocketing crime rates in the bigger cities.
Inability of local governments to pay for necessary law enforcement and other basic services.
Addicts everywhere (pills, meth, heroin), with numbers growing daily.
Hundreds of thousands of poor people taxing our health care system.
30% high school dropout rate (in 2017!) and we're being told it's improving.
Crumbling infrastructure, and the absence of funds to pay for maintenance, much less improvements.
Personal injury lawyers dominating TV screens and billboards, selling dreams of riches and causing forced income redistribution via insurance companies. (90% of suits pending in Louisiana courts are personal injury suits.)
Corrupt, self-dealing politicians, judges, and civil servants.
Lack of lynchpin industries (bye bye O&G), causing conversion to service economy in a state where nobody has any money.
People with brains (and money) leaving and taking their tax dollars with them, leaving fewer of us to support the parasitic underclass.
Too many fricking nail salons.
Oh, I almost forgot: the constant threat of utter decimation by Mother Nature.
I'm sure I am forgetting a bunch of stuff.


Well, whatever you do, don't read "One Second After", I don't think you'll be able to handle it!
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98317 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 7:04 pm to
And worst of all MeauxJeaux2 is on the loose.
Posted by Sidicous
Middle of Nowhere
Member since Aug 2015
17258 posts
Posted on 7/26/17 at 7:49 pm to
quote:


I don't want to be alarmist about this. The modern world in general is a mostly unliveable place. Society is in decay. But Louisiana seems to be the trendsetter. Think about it.



Don't nobody get outta this life in one piece. We all gonna die sooner or later.

Thing is, it's not what ya get, how much stuff ya got, but what ya do with what ya got that determines what kinda life ya live on this one trip through.

There's a whole lotta miserable people with a whole lotta stuff that the people themselves are not worth a flip. The happiest people I've ever known had hardly anything except each other.

Now...



























Git off'n mah lawn!!!
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