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re: Eddie Rispone: Louisiana needs a conservative outsider as its Governor
Posted on 4/4/19 at 6:45 pm to I B Freeman
Posted on 4/4/19 at 6:45 pm to I B Freeman
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Jindals faults are related to his failures to cut government more.
Correct. Rather than cut the government more, he played around with one time money and accounting tricks, causing us to continue to pay for things we could not afford to pay for.
I support cutting government in lean times.
Some support raising taxes. I don't, but, I understand some do.
No one should ever support using accounting gimmicks to spend money we don't really have.
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Posted on 4/4/19 at 7:11 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Rather than cut the government more, he played around with one time money and accounting tricks, causing us to continue to pay for things we could not afford to pay for.
Jindal thought he could paper over the budget with enough gimmicks and one time monies long enough to get out of town for a Presidential run.
And of course it didn’t work as karma would have it that the price of oil would go straight down in the shitter and Louisiana’s economy with it and the money we get from it. And thus exposing Jindal as the phony he was and he became one of the most hated lame ducks ever in Louisiana history.
And his presidential run was dead in the water before it could make it to Iowa. But of course that didn’t stop the little prick from timing his exit from the race the same week as the gubernatorial runoff to frick over Vitter one last time.
I will never be as disappointed in a politican as I was with Jindal. Really thought he was a legit change agent. Really soured me on wonder boy type politicians.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 7:27 pm to NIH
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The problem is our state is full of retards. Things like slash and burn taxes/services work on one side, and tax the rich works for the other. Things are more nuanced than that - our infrastructure is already dogshit. What business will come here if we even invest less in it? The real solution is to change how the money is spent, how public bidding is done, etc
I don’t know his platform, but if it doesn’t include a state constitutional convention that it doesn’t matter. This state’s foundation is garbage and the only way to fix it is through a state constitutional convention. If a Republican doesn’t want to do that you might as well vote for JBE and hope in 4 years a Republican who is willing to runs.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 7:49 pm to LSUFanHouston
We had the money obviously. The problem was it was one time money, and it’s not a sound way to run the govt.
He should have reformed nursing home rules, cut out a lot of the freebies like the film deal and tried to reform the tax code.
He failed in really fulfilling the mandate he initially had.
But some people laud Edwards as if he had some magic fix, but anyone could announce a crisis and proclaim that we need to raise over a billion dollars in taxes to fix the state budget.
He should have reformed nursing home rules, cut out a lot of the freebies like the film deal and tried to reform the tax code.
He failed in really fulfilling the mandate he initially had.
But some people laud Edwards as if he had some magic fix, but anyone could announce a crisis and proclaim that we need to raise over a billion dollars in taxes to fix the state budget.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 8:18 pm to Sentrius
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Posted on 4/4/19 at 8:20 pm to Sentrius
I haven’t done enough research, but I’d work for his campaign if he is serious about changing the business climate in the state and the shite tax code
Posted on 4/4/19 at 9:08 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Thanks for sharing as I stay far AF away from the Hayride. As do most people, and thus, it's time, like NOW, to get this message off of the Hayride
What’s wrong with the Hayride?
Posted on 4/4/19 at 9:10 pm to Sentrius
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Posted on 4/4/19 at 9:25 pm to dixiechick
How do you know? Maybe he wants to cut spending in other places and cut taxes. The voucher program isn’t that expensive in the macro sense.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 9:16 am to RidiculousHype
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This post was edited on 9/30/20 at 11:28 pm
Posted on 4/5/19 at 9:20 am to dixiechick
Jindal was the master at earning good tax grades from D.C think tanks.
As the other poster said - this state needs a constitutional convention to re-write how we do business. Slashing sales taxes and taking a shite on infrastructure isn’t going to do anything long term.
As the other poster said - this state needs a constitutional convention to re-write how we do business. Slashing sales taxes and taking a shite on infrastructure isn’t going to do anything long term.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 9:30 am to cssamerican
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I don’t know his platform, but if it doesn’t include a state constitutional convention that it doesn’t matter. This state’s foundation is garbage and the only way to fix it is through a state constitutional convention. If a Republican doesn’t want to do that you might as well vote for JBE and hope in 4 years a Republican who is willing to runs.
Truth. The difference between Louisiana and more successful states is the concentration of power between state and local governments. We have a centralized state government which magnifies corruption and spreads the impact wider.
A Constitutional Convention that removes constitutional and statutory dedications, eliminates the income tax and homestead exemption, and reduces the concentration of power in Baton Rouge is what is necessary to right this ship.
Anything else is fluff. Anyone who claims to have a magic bullet is a snake oil salesman. Anyone who says fixing the tax code and state budget is easy is an idiot.
That is why Eddie needs to release an actual platform and stop with the platitudes.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 9:33 am to RidiculousHype
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The voucher program isn’t that expensive in the macro sense.
Imagine if every private school family, this summer, said, private school is too expensive, we are going to start sending our kids to public school in the fall. Tens of thousands of kids being added to our public schools. All the money needed for that, with no additional revenue. How in the heck would we cover that cost as a state/parishes?
Whenever i hear talk of expanding vouchers, that is my concern - where is the money going to come from?
Posted on 4/5/19 at 9:40 am to brewhan davey
Heard a radio ad this morning from a group whose name I could not remember, but it talked about for every billboard you see advertising jobs or promoting new business, you saw 20 billboards for trial lawyers. Also talked about how in this state, we are actually "proud" to have a system that benefits trial lawyers.
Really hit a point home for me. You see trial attorney billboards everywhere but no where as much as here in LA.
Really hit a point home for me. You see trial attorney billboards everywhere but no where as much as here in LA.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 9:57 am to LSUFanHouston
It’s truly disgusting, every person involved even in the smallest fender benders act as if they’ve just won the lottery. Also wouldn’t hurt my feelings if they did something about the schyster doctors and their quack testimony to these “injuries”. These schmucks add zero to the economy and negatively impact it in a lot of ways.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 10:02 am to TJG210
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It’s truly disgusting, every person involved even in the smallest fender benders act as if they’ve just won the lottery. Also wouldn’t hurt my feelings if they did something about the schyster doctors and their quack testimony to these “injuries”. These schmucks add zero to the economy and negatively impact it in a lot of ways.
chiropractors need to eat too.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 10:08 am to NIH
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This post was edited on 9/30/20 at 11:26 pm
Posted on 4/5/19 at 10:10 am to BlackAdam
It’s easier to rile up idiots with platitudes
Posted on 4/5/19 at 10:32 am to dixiechick
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His desire to expand education to “workforce development” will end up being an unending drain on the taxpayer.
I guess it comes down to, what level of training/schooling should be up to the state, and what level up to industry.
There's certainly an appeal to labor businesses if the potential new hires already have a basic understanding of their craft.
And certainly, if given a choice between spending a $1 on training someone to use a weld torch, vs spending a $1 for someone to sit in a BS humanities class at Southeastern, i'd rather the state spend the money on the welder.
Now, should we not spend the money on either? I guess that's a good discussion to have.
I think the "workforce development" he talks about is just providing the same investment in labor education that we provide in classical education. Given that we have always been and will likely always be a blue collar state with a lot of heavy industry, I don't see an issue with this.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 10:38 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
Rispone is 3 syllables.
Ris (like Risk), po (like Poe from Star Wars or Kung-Fu Panda), ne (like knee).
Rispone.
Ris (like Risk), po (like Poe from Star Wars or Kung-Fu Panda), ne (like knee).
Rispone.
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