That money is burning a hole in Jon Bell's pocket

and he wants to spend more, but rascally Republicans won't go along with new budget numbers.

After cutting TOPS once and threatening to cut TOPS again , universities and the old folks; JBE got his second tax hike.

Now just six months later, he's projecting a nice surplus that he wants to give the sheriffs for state prisoners and for teacher pay raises down the road.

I thought we were letting prisoners loose to save mega bucks, but I guess I was wrong. 43 million more needs to go to lock people up.

It's amazing how fast people forget. We have been in crisis mode since JBE took over. LSU was crumbling, folks weren't being taken care of, we have an insurmountable back log in roads, and even the State Capital is falling down becsuse we have no maintenance money.

But now JBE says we have a tidy surplus now and expects an even bigger surplus next year, but instead of taking care of the problems we all heard about in the spring, he wants to help his sheriff buddies and the teacher unions.

I hope the rascals hold the line until we actually see a surplus and then we see the surplus go to the rainy day fund or to one time expenses.

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