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re: Do you feel like Louisiana will ever get its act together?
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:20 pm to Mr Perfect
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:20 pm to Mr Perfect
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so what's the answer then dude if you can't fix the schools or with programs. what is the answer
We need to relocate dysfunctionals to other states.
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Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:20 pm to fallguy_1978
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We need to rewrite the state constitution
What does it take for this to happen?
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:28 pm to TDcline
Not a shot in hell. The state is too corrupt, and the people are too stupid.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:32 pm to TDcline
Jobs for college graduates. You want to bring the homegrown talent back? Offer us liberty and fortune.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:33 pm to TDcline
Nope.
Louisiana never had it and never will. Great food and people. Horrible political system and ignorant voters.
Louisiana never had it and never will. Great food and people. Horrible political system and ignorant voters.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:34 pm to tigerpimpbot
Food is not that good, neither are the people
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:38 pm to fallguy_1978
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We need to rewrite the state constitution and stop subsidizing poor people breeding. Won't likely ever happen though
How is this going to bring good jobs and opportunities? That’s just a cop out.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:46 pm to HappyFunBall420
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How is this going to bring good jobs and opportunities? That’s just a cop out.
Not sure which part you are referring to.
Our tax code is unnecessarily complex with anti business taxes like the inventory tax. We need to scrap it altogether and start over.
We need to have a system with more localized control over things like schools (ISDs).
The subsidizing breeding part isn't necessarily unique to Louisiana but those least capable of producing productive citizens are breeding the most, largely consequence free for them. This can only lead to Idiocracy.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 4:34 pm to sta4ever
You can spend more money on education and it will probably get good teachers to stay. However, that does not solve the problem of kids. It all starts at home and if you continue to have all of these kids with bad parenting at home not raising them right, you are not going to fix the brain drain. Couple that with all the youth crimes, it is kinda hard to turn hoodlums into scholars.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 4:36 pm to Oneforthemoney
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However, that does not solve the problem of kids. It all starts at home and if you continue to have all of these kids with bad parenting at home not raising them right, you are not going to fix the brain drain.
The quality of a school has a lot to do with the quality of the student body. You could load mall city's finest into the best school in the country and it would be D rated the next year.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 4:36 pm to fallguy_1978
Louisiana is ranked mid 20s in education spending per pupil and has 48th ranked schools. Throwing more money at it probably wouldn't improve this much.
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Correct: Just ask Calfornia about all that money they threw at education and how that worked out for them.
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Correct: Just ask Calfornia about all that money they threw at education and how that worked out for them.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 4:48 pm to SpqrTiger
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I love Louisiana, but there’s little incentive for me to stay here beyond family.
This is a comment that is made over and over and it’s a legitimate reason for staying in one place. But, generations come and go. Grandparents pass on, parents pass one, current generation passes on. But there needs to be more reasons to stay than just “ being close to family” if people want change in Louisiana. Whatever reason a person is in Louisiana, make a difference outside of family so that others with no family ties will want to be here and flourish as well.
I’m retired and the only reason I’m here is because I’m close to family. I guess that makes me part of the problem and I accept that.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 4:50 pm to ElderTiger
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I’m retired and the only reason I’m here is because I’m close to family. I guess that makes me part of the problem and I accept that.
I've made a good living in Louisiana in a white collar field unrelated to O&G, personal injury attorneys or plants. I guess I'm a unicorn
Posted on 5/27/19 at 4:52 pm to ellishughtiger
quote:this makes no sense considering that New Orleans is a shite hole.
If it was not for Nola I would be out west or North Carolina.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 4:53 pm to Oneforthemoney
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Couple that with all the youth crimes, it is kinda hard to turn hoodlums into scholars.
Damn near impossible and, when it happens, there is usually one caring, reasonably intelligent, parent involved.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 5:06 pm to TDcline
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but wasting resources seizing CBD oil shops ain’t what many would call progress.
Just go get drunk like everyone else hippy.
But to answer your question seriously, no. South LA is a very strange culture of extremely hard working people that vote for redistributive policies that have proven time and time again to fail. Couple that with the extreme bible thumpers kn north LA, drug decriminalization will always face an uphill battle (strong popular police unions and support of all police forces don’t gel this either)
Look at the places where people really WANT to move to, Western st. Tammany, Ascension Parish, Southeast section of EBR, and they are overpopulating so quickly traffic is becoming a nightmare due to lack of surface streets.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 5:14 pm to TDcline
Nope; as long as we keep giving our resources to Petro chem at pennies on the dollar nothing will change.
WE pay a high price for the jobs they bring. A higher price for a job than basically every other state.
WE pay a high price for the jobs they bring. A higher price for a job than basically every other state.
This post was edited on 5/27/19 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 5/27/19 at 5:35 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:Me too but we are exceptions.
I've made a good living in Louisiana in a white collar field unrelated to O&G, personal injury attorneys or plants. I guess I'm a unicorn
Slight Generalization here but to paraphrase Dean Wormer:
“Fat, dumb, lazy, and gullible is no way to go through life.”
Louisiana has bad demographics with a laissez-faire work ethic.
The hot spots of America are distancing themselves from the Louisianas & Mississippis.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 5:36 pm to TDcline
I have seen signs of life in some small communities. Groups of good people who still care and are trying.
We’ll see how it turns out, but I’m pulling for them.
We’ll see how it turns out, but I’m pulling for them.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 5:53 pm to Decisions
I have cousins who work for maintenance contractors, and as long as I can remember, every year a week before dear season, they managed to get themselves laid off, collect unemployment, and hunt and fish until the turnarounds start. It would drive my grandfather crazy. That's the kind of stupid shite that has to change, but it's not going to.
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