re: These melts are hilarious but the fact remains: LA has no future

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look at per capita incomes in LA.

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post the data

it's hard to imagine real PCI increasing while our entitlement population grows

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you need to wipe the running mascara off your face, take a deep breath, and quit being so dramatic.

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wut?

this ain't a new, or hot, take

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I think there is agreement on early childhood funding

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wait what? this is a waste of money

classic LA

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that will move the needle the most.

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TRULY classic LA

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I think you, who often touts how there is a straight forward path for the poor to improve their future, are being overly fatalistic

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the problem is incentive and culture. when you pass a certain point, you won't see any improvement. that's why i said we're on the wrong side of the demographic tipping point. even Rispone only said he'd freeze Medicaid and not roll back JBE's expansion completely

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LC hasn’t added tens of thousands of jobs. We have added quite a good bit of high paying permanent jobs, but we laid off tens of thousands of workers over the last year due to the jobs being completed.

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hence why i said in OP it's coming to an end

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we'll continue to plod along as we adjust from the decline in the last few years from oil production support, but will eventually adjust. we have to, since we don't have productive frack formations here.

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Move on to what?

doesn't JBE control regulations to kill gas and oil? I heard the Gov of NM is trying to shut down with regs.

the biggest allegation against JBE is funding lawsuits against O/G (and, of course, giving the contracts to his friends to litigate). i don't think there are any regulatory issues in play. he'd be DOA if he tried to do that

he did change some tax incentives to give more local control to the exemptions. that bit BR in the arse

Education

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there aren't any

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Shut your mouth (tongue-in-cheek)! How dare you say there aren't any oppertunities in Louisiana. That's just not true. Why just the other day I read a story about a giant bust of massage parlors in Lake Charles. Dang the cops raided six of them "dens of iniquity".......six of them. Actually I didn't think there was six of anything left in Lake Charles. So your statement there aren't any economic oppertunites in Lousiana simply isn't true.

As you were.

that sting was actually run by our drug enforcement team so I'm curious what the real origin was/is of that investigation

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So move like we all did who had any smarts...

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This.

Louisiana is a great place to visit.