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re: A letter from Joe A. About the 16-17 year...
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:54 pm to Andychapman13
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:54 pm to Andychapman13
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How is it better than anything Jindal's did?
Jindal overspent and never planned long term. He sold state assets to balance the budget. Now that they can no longer hide the budget problems, Edwards, the current governor for 6 months, has to make the hard choices.
Do you actually think Edwards is the bad guy and Jindal was the good guy?
How old are you? Have you ever had to create a budget and stick to it?
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Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:02 pm to ATL-TIGER-732
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How old are you? Have you ever had to create a budget and stick to it?
Sure, I make a budget for the school I run. But for my family I dont, I just make sure that money I spend is money well invested or neccessary. I don't blow it by gIvins it out to a bunch of people who didn't do anything to earn it. Edwards cut $ to TOPS, cut money to public schools, and didn't give the university any more money while he increased welfare (food stamps, medicaid) and still didn't balance his budget. He ran on fiscal responsibility and dropped the ball there because of welfare. Jindal ran on lowering taxes and he did it. Jindal is no saint, but Edwards is giving it away (welfare) instead of investing it (education).
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:16 pm to dukke v
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Happy 4th buddy
You too brother.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:16 pm to dukke v
Double post
This post was edited on 7/4/16 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:19 pm to Andychapman13
Jindal's solution was to give state education money to fly by night "Jesus Voucher Academies" that hire unqualified teachers at $21,000 a year to teach kids to watch somebody teach class on a computer. And then try to eliminate tenure, which only caused virtually every quality teacher to "drop" and retire early, further exacerbating our woeful shortage of qualified teachers.
You would have thought with Jindal's "investment" in education the last eight years, there wouldn't be a need for Edwards to piss away the budget on Welfare, right?
Downvote the frick out of me. I don't care. But please, somebody who also has firsthand knowledge, explain how I'm wrong without parroting the same tired Republican talking points.
You would have thought with Jindal's "investment" in education the last eight years, there wouldn't be a need for Edwards to piss away the budget on Welfare, right?
Downvote the frick out of me. I don't care. But please, somebody who also has firsthand knowledge, explain how I'm wrong without parroting the same tired Republican talking points.
This post was edited on 7/4/16 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:25 pm to Andychapman13
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How is it better than anything Jindal's did
You have to be joking. Jindal took a 1 billion dollar surplus and turned it into a 1.6 billion dollar deficit.
Anyone that cant admit that Jindal sucked,has an agenda.
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Funding for higher education and health care services will almost certainly be subject to cuts deeper than what they already have endured in recent years, and Jindal's successor will have to repay a string of debts and IOUs.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:29 pm to Andychapman13
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Jindal ran on lowering taxes and he did it
No shite. Thats why LA is in the economic state that its in.
He lowered taxes and only cut spending .25% per year, which i one of the most ignorant things a governor can do.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:30 pm to Andychapman13
Damn mobile double posting
This post was edited on 7/4/16 at 8:31 pm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:30 pm to Rickdaddy4188
Edwards voted for all but 2 of Jindal's budgets?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:31 pm to Rickdaddy4188
But at least we got that booming film industry out of it, right?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:35 pm to lsutigers1992
2 main problems in schools:teachers that aren't any good for kids and learning and kids that aren't any good for kids and learning. Vouchers allow charter and private schools to remove the kids who aren't good for kids and learning from the equation. Eliminating tenure allows schools to get rid of teachers who aren't any good for kids and learning.
State test scores and SPS's have gone up over last 8 years after a nose dive under Blanco. EBR scores hAve increased over last 8 years.
TOPS is the one thing LA govt has got right in the last 20 years and we threw it out the window. Jindal gave parents choice in what to do for their kids education, TOPS gave kids affordable college tuition, plus kept talent in state.
State test scores and SPS's have gone up over last 8 years after a nose dive under Blanco. EBR scores hAve increased over last 8 years.
TOPS is the one thing LA govt has got right in the last 20 years and we threw it out the window. Jindal gave parents choice in what to do for their kids education, TOPS gave kids affordable college tuition, plus kept talent in state.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:41 pm to Tiger Nation 84
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I hope this letters finds you
Published: July 01, 2016, 11:07 PM (CT)
Updated: July 04, 2016, 07:25 AM (CT
It bothers me that this first sentence was posted and updated and yet no one at LSU electronic media has seen or deemed it worthy of correcting. First sentence and we look stupid.
This post was edited on 7/4/16 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:42 pm to Tiger Nation 84
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This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 3:27 am
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:43 pm to Andychapman13
I promise you the bad teachers are still there. The good teachers retired early. If you are in the system you know that. Administrators in EBR aren't firing a bunch of bad 40 year olds if they want to stay l, just to replace them with a naive 23 year old just out of college who will get eaten alive and quit in two months. The kids aren't getting any smarter. They're just being taught how to pass one standardized test. The rest of the teacher and school performance scores can be manipulated to make bad teachers look good. I've seen it happen.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 8:47 pm to Lacour
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Lacour
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There's a board for your biases political views.
Unfortunately there isn't one for your piss poor grammar though.
While I'm responding, can you tell me how you feel our Governor was acting courageously by not recalculating state income on oil prices even though it's been approximately 20% above the $50 mark when our estimates were more than 20% below that? Or what-exactly-he's done courageously by failing to fund TOPS?
Let's leave aside those very specific questions, though. Just tell me what you think is courageous about our Governor? I'm genuinely curious.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 9:23 pm to Andychapman13
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while he increased welfare (food stamps, medicaid)
This is required by Federal law. Edwards had no control over this.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 9:30 pm to ATL-TIGER-732
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This is required by Federal law. Edwards had no control over this
Neither is required by federal law. Medicaid $ comes from the feds, however when more people in out state receive medicaid they become eligible for other services that increase our budget, such as funding to health and hospitals. Food stamps are totally state funded and at the state government's descretion. It's all in the 10th amendment to the US Constitution...
Posted on 7/4/16 at 9:40 pm to Andychapman13
Hmmmmmm..... I wonder if the price of oil might have something to do with the States fiscal woes? hmmmm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 9:52 pm to Tiger Nation 84
1) Joe A. Is sucking up to his bosses.
2) Joe is sucking from the government teat, and the more the milk flow the better!
3) Our last governor was running for president, and wouldn't cut programs.
4) Oil averaged about $110 from 2011-2013 this resulted in mineral revenues of $1.408 billion in 2011, $1.437 in 2012, and $1.473 in 2013. In the last two years oil has been below $50 and 2015 revenue was$0.786 billion. That is about $700 million per year or about 1.4 billion for two years less. Source: dnr.louisiana.gov.
5) This short fall has nothing to do with tea party economics and every thing to do with a "don't make waves" Republican governor and a "tax and spend" Democratic governor. Neither are heroic.
6) A mother and father in New Orleans can spend their government education money ( GI Bill) at a public institution (ex. UNO), a private one (ex. Tulame), or a religious one (ex. Loyola) but they are too fricken stupid to do the same for their children. Oh my! They might CHOOSE to send tax payer funds to a "Jesus Voucher Academy" instead of flushing their children's futures and tax payer funds down the toilet that is the local public schools. I was able to pay for "Jesus No-Voucher Academies". It was hard but they were worth it! So get off your antichristian bias and help those who are FORCED to send their children to the septic tanks called Louisiana public schools.
2) Joe is sucking from the government teat, and the more the milk flow the better!
3) Our last governor was running for president, and wouldn't cut programs.
4) Oil averaged about $110 from 2011-2013 this resulted in mineral revenues of $1.408 billion in 2011, $1.437 in 2012, and $1.473 in 2013. In the last two years oil has been below $50 and 2015 revenue was$0.786 billion. That is about $700 million per year or about 1.4 billion for two years less. Source: dnr.louisiana.gov.
5) This short fall has nothing to do with tea party economics and every thing to do with a "don't make waves" Republican governor and a "tax and spend" Democratic governor. Neither are heroic.
6) A mother and father in New Orleans can spend their government education money ( GI Bill) at a public institution (ex. UNO), a private one (ex. Tulame), or a religious one (ex. Loyola) but they are too fricken stupid to do the same for their children. Oh my! They might CHOOSE to send tax payer funds to a "Jesus Voucher Academy" instead of flushing their children's futures and tax payer funds down the toilet that is the local public schools. I was able to pay for "Jesus No-Voucher Academies". It was hard but they were worth it! So get off your antichristian bias and help those who are FORCED to send their children to the septic tanks called Louisiana public schools.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 9:57 pm to Andychapman13
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Neither is required by federal law.
Federal Grants to State and Local Governments
Page 6:
Spending for some mandatory grant programs is open-ended;
that is, the relevant agency has unlimited authority to disburse funds as required by the conditions set forth in authorizing legislation. Medicaid, for example, falls into that category. Spending on other mandatory grant programs,
such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), may be limited to amounts specified in the
authorizing law for a given program.
many grant programs include matching requirements or maintenance-of-effort (MOE)provisions that require state and local governments to partially pay for a program from nonfederal revenues.
Some such provisions may cause state and local governments to spend more on a program than they otherwise would and may constrain their ability to spend their own revenues according to their own policy priorities.
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