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re: Baton Rouge is in trouble...
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:17 am to BabyTac
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:17 am to BabyTac
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The $53 million just thrown in a trash can to BK could’ve went a long way to cleaning up north Baton Rouge.
Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said 'give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime'.
We have given too many fish to north Baton Rouge and it has only gotten worse. Democrats are too empathetic to make the tough decisions necessary to maintain a safe and civil society. Throwing money at north baton rouge is just enabling that behavior, not correcting it.
Things will have to get worse before they get better... let the cuts begin.
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Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:19 am to teke184
And she would have been re-elected Mayor if she had done the right thing. So happy she got shite canned on re-election.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:19 am to Traffic Circle
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Baton Rouge should have annexed St. George years ago but they didn’t because they wanted a majority black vote.
Pretty sure part of it is the Voter Rights Act limitations on annexation to where you can’t “dilute” a minority vote.
It translates to “you can annex minority areas but not white areas”, which fricked BR city limits over the course of about 40 years as most of the new development moved to unincorporated EBR, much of which is now St George.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:20 am to TeddyPadillac
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When they come out and say they will be short $52M over the next two years b/c of St. George, and then try to steal $56M from the library, i'm pretty sure St. George has everything to do with it.
Or maybe they used bullshite numbers, just like they did all through the lawsuit, in order to push through their "debt" payment scheme, which amounts to a slush fund.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:36 am to theliontamer
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The politicians acted like the St George thing wasn't going to affect BR that much. But now, the dominos started falling, and the only option is to eliminate a third of city government positions. Now I'm all about firing excess government employees, but for that to be a option this early in the game shows how bad things really are. This means we have no money to run the city. And the only option after reducing overhead, is raising taxes. Are we going to be paying record high taxes for a small crime ridden city? And if taxes go up, more respectable people will leave. And let's not beat around the bush. North BR is a drain on the city and needs to be addressed. The logical solution is to make that its own city and bring back the tax paying families that were sick of the crime, private school, and paying taxes for themselves and 10 other families up north
Truth be told, TPTB knew that StG was going to bring down the house of cards. Thats why they fought tooth and nail against it during both petition drives, the election, and for 4 years in court.
Of course, they could have changed course and prepared for this eventuality during that time, but like all retarded Democrats, they just rolled along and spent taxpayer $$$ like an EBTer with an extra 0 on their monthly allotment.
I am from BTR and have live here most of my life. You can lay the vast majority of these ills at the feet of Judge John Parker, who so fricked EBR Parish Schools that families and businesses (you know, taxpayers) got the frick out and didn't come back. Once the demographics changed, you got the same fricking retarded and corrupt municipal government that befalls just about every similarly situated city (NO, Jackson, Birmingham, Detroit, St. Louis, etc.).
BR is in a death spiral and there's nothing that can be done about it. The only question is will it auger in nose first, or land on its belly and crack up on the ground?
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:41 am to theliontamer
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only option is to eliminate a third of city government positions
What’s the problem ?
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:58 am to GreenRockTiger
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those were issues before Katrina - and the latter two continue to be issues - remain ignorant - it’s the Baton Rouge way
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GreenRockTiger
Hey Greenie, don’t be so prickly.
I gave you a chance to enlighten me with some evidence that this is true, but you replied with a snarky attack, and simply a re-assertion of your claim.
Let’s try this again. What do you know about these topics and how do you know it? I’m not claiming they’re false, just that I’d never heard that.
I know a lot about the serial killers, and I know about the Barry Seal case, and I didn’t even quibble with you about whether those two factors make the claim that Baton Rouge has always “been in trouble”.
But I’m skeptical that Baton Rouge was ever the “AIDS capital” or that “gays killing kids” was rampant in BR. Nevertheless, please tell me why you think those things and I’ll listen.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:07 am to theliontamer
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The logical solution is to make that its own city
De-Annex North Baton Rouge.
I like it.
New Orleans should De-Annex New Orleans East too.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:08 am to theliontamer
America is in trouble.
Humanity is in trouble, if you want to know the truth.
Humanity is in trouble, if you want to know the truth.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:29 am to theliontamer
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The politicians acted like the St George thing wasn't going to affect BR that much. But now, the dominos started falling, and the only option is to eliminate a third of city government positions. Now I'm all about firing excess government employees, but for that to be a option this early in the game shows how bad things really are. This means we have no money to run the city. And the only option after reducing overhead, is raising taxes. Are we going to be paying record high taxes for a small crime ridden city? And if taxes go up, more respectable people will leave. And let's not beat around the bush. North BR is a drain on the city and needs to be addressed. The logical solution is to make that its own city and bring back the tax paying families that were sick of the crime, private school, and paying taxes for themselves and 10 other families up north.
BR has hired 5 people to do a 1 man job en masse over the last 50 years. Now you gotta cut those 4 others because of the snowball of debt that's been coming down the hill. The money in St George has helped pay that extra baggage, including legacy pensions that BR could only pay for with SG money. Now it's time to be realistic. Hire independent auditors to see how the city functions and then go on a crash diet. St George was the eye opener BR has been waiting for.
Looking back, imagine if BR would have just given SBR it's own school district. That's what started this whole thing. Remember that? And just look at them now.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:35 am to el Gaucho
GravyTown !
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:36 am to TeddyPadillac
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admitting they have been using St. George money and not spending it on St. George, which the whole reason St. George now exists.
St. George exists because the people there wanted their own school district, and EBR said they couldn’t have a school district without an incorporated town/city.
Challenge accepted.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:43 am to theliontamer
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The logical solution is to make that its own city and bring back the tax paying families that were sick of the crime, private school, and paying taxes for themselves and 10 other families up north.
you better build a wall around that north city, cause the criminals and ilk that make it so awful aint gonna just stay up there. They'll drive right on over to your nice white neighborhood and help themselves to your shite.
Just like they do now.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:44 am to theliontamer
Place the city government of br into receivership and liquidate.
Sell off the assets and dissolve it.
It wasn’t doing much anyway.
Sell off the assets and dissolve it.
It wasn’t doing much anyway.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:50 am to Bazzatcha
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Democrats are too empathetic to make the tough decisions necessary to maintain a safe and civil society
This is the most naive statement I've seen in quite a while.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 9:52 am to theliontamer
Has to completely fail before healing can occur
Posted on 11/18/25 at 10:05 am to CitizenK
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was always about the city domineering over the parish
Actually, it was about ensuring a white mayor over a majority black city, but it backfired in the other direction.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 10:06 am to teke184
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Pretty sure part of it is the Voter Rights Act limitations on annexation to where you can’t “dilute” a minority vote.
Just shows how politics are. Whites trying to keep white districts white, same with blacks. This one bit somebody in the arse and it’s too bad.
Same with desegregation.
Basically, BR is becoming a small Detroit unless real leadership steps in; the chem plants pay -some- taxes; and sanity is brought back.
Sadly, like many, St. George is the answer. It’ll likely never happen in BR no matter what the rah-rah do-gooders say.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 10:22 am to theliontamer
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But now, the dominos started falling, and the only option is to eliminate a third of city government positions.
Deconsolidation. It needs to happen immediately.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 10:31 am to theliontamer
SWB was completely convinced St. George was going to fail in the courts so she had no contingency plan in the event the new city was actually successful.
This post was edited on 11/18/25 at 10:41 am
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