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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe party of "fiscal responsibility": Bobby Jindal's Louisiana disaster
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Year after year, Louisiana didn't have enough money to cover its expenses, yet Gov. Bobby Jindal refused to roll back income tax cuts or ever-increasing corporate tax breaks. Instead, he raided reserve funds and sold off state property.
Jindal suggested job growth from his economic development wins would replenish those assets once the recession ended. It hasn't and money from the lucrative oil industry has taken a nose dive with crude prices. Now, the Republican is running out of short-term patches and is struggling to plug a $1.6 billion budget hole just as he tries to build support for a possible 2016 presidential run.
Funding for higher education and health care services will almost certainly be subject to cuts deeper than what they already have endured in recent years, and Jindal's successor will have to repay a string of debts and IOUs. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/jindal-leave-louisianas-next-governor-budget-mess-164848646.html
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The party of "fiscal responsibility": Bobby Jindal's Louisiana disaster (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2015
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His successor will be a Republican who will attempt the same fiscal shenanigans.
LonePirate
Feb 2015
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Xyzse
(8,217 posts)1. He's a friggin idiot whose policies look like a gambling addict.
That's just ridiculous, and he just made it harder for whomever his successor would be to get out of the hole he dug.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)2. His successor will be a Republican who will attempt the same fiscal shenanigans.
Voters (especially in the south) simply do not punish Republicans for their incompetence at governance.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)4. I know. It is pretty idiotic.
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)3. Gee, Why Am I Not Surprised By This?
Trickle down does not work. It will never work, no matter how many times Republicans insist on trying it.
Voters simply have to wake up and stop buying the empty promises.