re: A letter from Joe A. About the 16-17 year...

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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.

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Did edwards not inherit a billion dollar deficit after his predecessor turned a huge surplus into a deficit?

At no point did he call him a hero

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Have you ever had to create a budget and stick to it?

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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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Has absolutely nothing to do woth my political views moron

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Tiger Nation 84

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And Food Stamps are totally state $.

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program)

The federal government pays the full cost of SNAP benefits and splits the cost of administering the program with the states, which operate the program.

SNAP eligibility rules and benefit levels are, for the most part, set at the federal level and uniform across the nation

In fiscal year 2015, the federal government spent about $75 billion on SNAP.

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For the first time since 1984 LSU failed to win a conference championship or a post season conference championship in any sport (M-F).

What courage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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