re: So why is this state always broke?

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You can't blame the Catholics

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I can blame for the corruption that exists wherever the Catholic culture dominates: Italy, Spain, Latin America, New York, Chicago... Add that to the Baptists you so lovingly cited and the Black Poverty pim-- I mean community organizers, and you get LA

Texas gave us LBJ, who is still helping destroy this country 40+ years after his death

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we also gave you Eisenhower

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raised in Kansas from age 2

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and Willie fricking Nelson

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Doug Sahm >>>>>>>> Willie Nelson

speakng of inbred, north and south shreveport people look inbred. Mustve been due to geographic isolation due to the great raft or some shite. Weird.

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Louisiana can’t blame immigrants

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Why would we need to do that? Immigrants work hard for peanuts. Louisiana would be a paradise if a bunch of food-obsessed Catholics speaking a romance language were the most of our problems.

It all started with a scumbag named Huey p long and his cronie family. When you see one of his descendants or walk by a building or statue memorializing him or his family you should spit on it. Once a year I go to the state capitol and take a selfie laughing in front the bullet holes

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Louisiana is always broke because we have among the highest rates of poverty per capita, highest rates of crime, highest rates of mental illness, highest rates of incarceration, highest rates of drug use, lowest rates of educational attainment per capita, the highest rates of government employees per capita, most 4 year public universities per capita, fewest 2 year public community colleges per capita, massive infrastructure challenges for such a small state due to our geology, extremely generous corporate tax structure, extremely generous property tax structure for non-corporations, a centralized state government that does a lot of the work that county governments handle in other states, a metric f&%k ton of corruption, a raw-material / natural resource-based economy that is based on commodity prices which are mostly in the toilet right now (Timber being the exception), and we have some of the most generous state entitlement programs in the United States for everything from higher education, to welfare, to foo

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When you put it thst way we sometimes Nd all yucky


I am 48 years old. I had the “why do we stay in La” talk with my wife.

I love my friends and family. But when you go to other places in the US you just see how nice it can be