re: Louisiana is doomed. We're all doomed.

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I don't want to be alarmist about this.

Skyrocketing crime rates in the bigger cities.
Inability of local governments to pay for necessary law enforcement and other basic services.
Addicts everywhere (pills, meth, heroin), with numbers growing daily.
Hundreds of thousands of poor people taxing our health care system.
30% high school dropout rate (in 2017!) and we're being told it's improving.
Crumbling infrastructure, and the absence of funds to pay for maintenance, much less improvements.
Personal injury lawyers dominating TV screens and billboards, selling dreams of riches and causing forced income redistribution via insurance companies. (90% of suits pending in Louisiana courts are personal injury suits.)
Corrupt, self-dealing politicians, judges, and civil servants.
Lack of lynchpin industries (bye bye O&G), causing conversion to service economy in a state where nobody has any money.
People with brains (and money) leaving and taking their tax dollars with them, leaving fewer of us to support the parasitic underclass.
Too many fricking nail salons.
Oh, I almost forgot: the constant threat of utter decimation by Mother Nature.
I'm sure I am forgetting a bunch of stuff.

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Well, whatever you do, don't read "One Second After", I don't think you'll be able to handle it!

And worst of all MeauxJeaux2 is on the loose.

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I don't want to be alarmist about this. The modern world in general is a mostly unliveable place. Society is in decay. But Louisiana seems to be the trendsetter. Think about it.

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Don't nobody get outta this life in one piece. We all gonna die sooner or later.

Thing is, it's not what ya get, how much stuff ya got, but what ya do with what ya got that determines what kinda life ya live on this one trip through.

There's a whole lotta miserable people with a whole lotta stuff that the people themselves are not worth a flip. The happiest people I've ever known had hardly anything except each other.

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Git off'n mah lawn!!!

Insurance defense lawyers are pussies.

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Too many fricking nail salons.

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Y'allgot eyebrowplaces?

David Weathers

Solid melt. 8/10.

Just read in another thread that people are leaving the NE in droves. Maybe the state should look into offering all of these intellectuals and rich folk a free tour of the beauty. Encourage them to invest in...uh...uh...uh, well throw them a crawfish boil.