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re: Why can't Louisiana just get its sh** together?
Posted on 5/11/17 at 12:48 pm to DupontsCircle
Posted on 5/11/17 at 12:48 pm to DupontsCircle
quote:Wow, yep.
State government can't manage to procure any services it needs at competitive prices, vendors rape the taxpayers, while the elected officials stroke their balls. I'm convinced government can't be fixed in this state because there is no talent to fix it. The cream rises, leaves and the only people left are local hillbillies to play king of the castle.
The people are poor because they're illiterate and raised to be good ole baws. There's no vision of a future beyond tomorrow and dreams stop at 18. The average Louisiana high school graduate has no plan or purpose beyond Senior year. The amount graduating from a Top 200 school is relatively few. A top 50 school is a fraction of a percent.
Essentially, LA is a leading state for "brain drain" because of the general disdain for intelligence and education. It's not just neglect, which is reflected in the terrible schools. It's an actual hatred for intelligence, and smart kids can't wait to get the frick out.
There is zero investment in a meaningful future. When the oilfield is up, the big "philanthropists" would rather bolster the piss ant local sports teams or build meaningless monuments to themselves than invest in actual education. This mentality has no long term future.
I could rant on and on and on, but you covered most of it.
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Posted on 5/11/17 at 12:52 pm to DupontsCircle
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The average home price in Baton Rouge significantly out paces the average salary with rent prices comparable to a city twice its size.
There was a bubble, but it was filled after Katrina. Now the flood. The correction was pretty weak in Baton Rouge relative to Florida or Georgia.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 12:55 pm to kingbob
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Operators, tradesmen, contractors, and engineers
Point proven
Posted on 5/11/17 at 1:08 pm to DupontsCircle
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Why can't Louisiana just get its sh** together?
I got paid significantly more to move elsewhere after grad school. Louisiana's white collar job market is just not competitive.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 1:13 pm to reggieray420
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Your list is retarded, frick do you and your bitch do for a living?
LOL this has been asked 10 times in this thread.
I'm a consultant on strategic acquisition development and negotiation, mainly with large services contracts to governments, both international and domestic, including the IMF. I also work through contract disputes on behalf of firms with the government. It's a mixture of legal, business and government relations.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 1:28 pm to DupontsCircle
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Your list is retarded, frick do you and your bitch do for a living?
And that's also my reply to people who say we have a thriving health care industry here.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 1:39 pm to blueboy
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Big philanthropists
I'm not against these guys propping up local sports teams. It takes money to make the world go around and at local athletics is its own economy.
The problem with the educational system is an entirely different matter but overall I agree with you .
Posted on 5/11/17 at 2:12 pm to DupontsCircle
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GF is pressuring me to relocate back closer to her family
This doesn't make any sense. Why are you moving your entire life for a GF?
Stay where you are and see what happens. If GF becomes wife then that's a different story. Either way you bide your time to talk her out of moving back to LA.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:06 pm to G Vice
quote:That's always the line, and it's ridiculous. There is no amount of small town sports revenue that can change the economic landscape of the area. It's bullshite. It's oilfield or bust, and one day, it's going to go completely bust, and you and I will be the only two people left here, sitting around with our thumbs up our asses.
I'm not against these guys propping up local sports teams. It takes money to make the world go around and at local athletics is its own economy.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:09 pm to blueboy
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Essentially, LA is a leading state for "brain drain" because of the general disdain for intelligence and education. It's not just neglect, which is reflected in the terrible schools. It's an actual hatred for intelligence, and smart kids can't wait to get the frick out.
product of Huey Long
that and generations of people who a made good living in the oil field created an anti-education sentiment around blue collar folks. purposely tanking high school because there's a good roustabout job waiting isn't such a good idea anymore.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:12 pm to DupontsCircle
So you work for the government basically? Good luck finding a job, parasite
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:14 pm to el Gaucho
god some of you people are ignorant Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:15 pm to blueboy
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y, it's going to go completely bust, and you and I will be the only two people left here, sitting around with our thumbs up our asses.
Lafayette has done a good job of trying to diversify since the last oil bust. things aren't perfect but the city isn't crumbling either.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:18 pm to DupontsCircle
If the jobs are only available for engineers, payroll clerks and PI lawyers maybe you should expand on that. Engineers need teachers (professors). Payroll clerk jobs can be outsourced to accountants, so maybe you should consider that. PI lawyers have to sue someone. Maybe you should consider being an adjuster or defense attorney. If real estate is disproportionately priced relative to income it sounds like you should be a realtor. If political jobs are the flavor of the month you could be a political advisor or lobbyist or political ad marketer. If small bait shops are that popular you should make a trip to California a few times a year to figure out what the next hot bait will be (they are notorious for coming up with new baits in California years before we do, e.g. Swimbaits, drop shots, umbrella rigs, hand poured plastic baits...).
Maybe stop bitching about the lack of opportunity and do a little forward thinking toward the current work force or what the future work force will be.
Just a thought.
Maybe stop bitching about the lack of opportunity and do a little forward thinking toward the current work force or what the future work force will be.
Just a thought.
This post was edited on 5/11/17 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:20 pm to NIH
quote:Bingo. I don't know how much shite I've heard reviling "them college boys; I make more than they do" over the years. They don't seem to realize that "them college boys" innovated every single thing that makes their lives possible. But, of course, they do so from out of state.
that and generations of people who a made good living in the oil field created an anti-education sentiment around blue collar folks.
People look at me suspiciously just because I don't have an accent, and if I use a word with more than three syllables, they believe that I must think I'm better than them.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:24 pm to blueboy
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g "them college boys; I make more than they do"
yep. a lot of that has died down recently. the bust will serve as a wake up call for a lot of folks, can't rely on a commodity to provide work for you all your life.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:25 pm to RobbBobb
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Tell me where in La you would have to live, that a couple making 100K+, isnt living a comfortable life?
Not if you have 2 kids in private schools.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:30 pm to DupontsCircle
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leeches
I learned something today.. I always thought it was leaches
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:37 pm to DupontsCircle
I read the entire thing, and I warm heartedly agree with you.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 7:27 pm to Mr. Hangover
I'm here to teach
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