re: Only 15 Democrat Governors in the U.S.

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The 17th Amendment was the biggest mistake ever.

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14th is worse.

17th is very specific in what it entails and completely unambiguous.

14th has been interpreted to totally frick us up.

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Yeah.... the state economies of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, Alabama are booming.

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Please explain. Louisiana has seen the exodus of 1 or 2 major businesses, has failed to attract more business to the state under Edwards, and is one of the highest taxed states in the country, while having one of the lowest median incomes, poorest performing public schools, and crumbling infrastructure. Louisiana also has one of the largest public to private employee ratio's in the country (that means a large number of public employees for every private employee). When it came time to make budget cuts, due to our no deficit clause in Louisiana budgets, Edwards chose to only cut TOPS funding. He did not address the billions in private undisclosed contracts that are being wasted, nor has he addressed the massive over spending on wasted public universities. Louisiana also has a large amount of public universities for a state it's size. Many of which are complete failures and are redundant.

Which economic policy in particular?
The stelly plan tax cuts supported by JBE inthe legislature and passed with a veto-proof majority?

Not much one can do when the primary resource your economy is based on drops from over $120/barrel to $30 overnight. There are tens of thousnds of jobs and hundreds of businesses that simply shut down when oil drops that low. Jundal tried to diversify our economy with these economic incentives, but few of those outside investments stuck.