re: LA Senate Proposes 37 Billion Dollar Budget Proposal

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This is like spending $100,000 for a used 2001 Civic.

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That would be an improvement. A 20 year old Civic probably works for some people. When was the last time government actually improved something that impacted you? Did you recently get a new bridge? Did your kid's public school improve? Did they build a new levee?


Government Budget in a nutshell:
Imagine you have 100 critical items that you need to buy. Each of the 100 critical items that you need costs $10. Some of these are new roads, some are schools, and others are pension obligations.

Instead of buying 100 items at $10, you decide to put $1.00 towards 10,000 items each.....none of which you actually need.

So you end up catastrophically over budget and you still have unmet needs that never seem to be addressed.

Who cares? No way a state with 4 million people should have a budget of $37 billion.

Louisiana was the first of these, how many votes do we need in this blue district to win the election...oh, this many, rigged elections..in a state wide position. They’ve got to hammer down and fundamentally change the place or it wouldn’t be worth it, outside of showing it could be done to effect a presidential election. But they’ve hammered down to change everything at that level too. If you’re going to cheat, make it count.

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And still no fricking new bridge or loop in Baton Rouge.

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and still the most trashed out, dumpiest state in the country

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We all have opinions about where to cut until they cut something we want.

So, they try and please everyone, screw the public good.

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+1

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But everyone bitched about Jindal when he cut it below 20 billion........

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It's almost like there is a happy median somewhere.........