re: Only in Louisiana

Our state is poor because for 125 years or so a populist democrat cabal controlled the state. In the early 1970s that cabal put a new constitution on the table that protects the political class and the bureaucracy. It only allows spending adjustments to,higher education and healthcare.

We have allowed the unions and state and local,government to destroy public education. We have our state capital with an airport that makes us look like a very small town.

Our current political class argues about how to raise taxes and stop incentives to recruit businesses when all of our competitors are trying to figure out how to lower or eliminate taxes and raise incentives. As long as our political class is going down the tax increase path there is very little hope for progress.

We have a great research university. It should be spinning off all sorts of start ups and technology. But it is not.

We have very little angel or investment capital here locally. New Orleans has a little bit.

Anyway. None of our economic woes have anything to,do,with the football program