But really, is sending the money to Mandeville going to help those who need help in New Orleans? Of course not!
But sending money to conservative Mandeville and taking it out of liberal New Orleans… perhaps now we can understand why Jindal made the cut. I guess politics is more important to Jindal than actually helping people who need it the most. But what else should we expect. The man made a name for himself by cutting an additional $200 million in services from the Louisiana Department of Health after returning the department to the black.
On Friday June 26th, Dan and Dave on the Air had on as a guest Louisiana Representative Sam Jones to discuss the Louisiana Legislative Session. One of the topics that came up was the issue of why the legislature was not able to pass legislation that would have forced Bobby Jindal to veto a bill to prevent Louisiana from accepting those additional unemployment funds.
We all know that one of the excuses Governor Jindal gave for rejecting those funds was that it would increase taxes on Louisiana business.
As Tim Barfield, Jindal’s appointment to the Louisiana Workforce Commission, stated:
“This amendment would have the effect of changing our current law in a way to use temporary federal stimulus money while resulting in a long term tax increase on Louisiana businesses who will long after be taxed along new experience ratings that are used to calculate their individual tax rates.”
However, the shocking revelation that we heard from Representative Jones was that Jindal’s refusal of these funds has caused an increase on business taxes.
Let me repeat that just in case it didn’t sink in. Jindal’s refusal to accept the unemployment funds from the stimulus package has caused an increase of taxes for Louisiana businesses.
Had Governor Jindal accepted the stimulus funding, the trust fund would have been funded above $1.4 billion and no tax increase would have been needed.
So, according to Representative Jones, the exact thing Jindal was worried about in changing the rules is the thing that happened because he didn’t.
People, including a relative to Bobby Jindal’s wife, have started a PAC to “draft” Bobby Jindal to run for president.
I mean seriously, is anyone left that is still buying this crap that Bobby Jindal is not running for Preisdent and that Jindal “has the job he wants”? Give me a freaking break.
A common chant in LGBT pride rallies is “We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It!”. Well, I was thinking about what a straight person might shout at a rally in support of LGBT rights. I quickly came up with an answer!
“I’m straight! It’s Great! I dont hate or discriminate!”
Someone else liked it so much that he wished someone would make a bumper sticker. I did him one better. I made a bumper sticker and a t-shirt and they are available at the LJ4a Store now!
In a video on YouTube, I had discussed my shock that any black person would support the discriminatory legislation that was prop 8. Apparently someone has gotten all their friends together and have decided to try and brand me a racist. They use as “proof” that I spend so much time dealing with black voters who supported prop 8 (even though the video was just over 2 minutes and only takes up 13% of my total YouTube time spent discussing prop and that I first chose to scapegoat black voters (when I clearly uploaded 2 other videos unrelated to the black vote prior to uploading this one).
So I am asking all my blogger friends to please go check out my video and leave comments in support of what I have said, rate my video positively, and rate their comments negatively.
The Democrat from Baton Rouge refused to stand idly by as Bobby Jindal rejected the additional stimulus funding for unemployment benefits. An amendment was slipped into a bill that will help those who are currently unemployed. The legislation will put Louisiana in a position to except the funds.
Maybe now there can be more discussion about the truth of this bill and how it will have NO additional requirements on businesses once the federal funds run out.
Jindal said that this bill could “cost businesses” 12 million a year. Um, how much money did Jindal spend on saving that chicken plant again? $50 million? Where does Jindal think THAT money is coming from? Thin air?
Jindal is a liar and a hypocrite. This rejection of additional unemployment funds is just grandstanding at the expense of those Louisiana citizens who are unemployed in this hard economic time. It is about time more people called him on this.
All you need are John Lithgow and Kevin Bacon and you can have a new sequel to Footloose. This time an Ohio Christian School has threatened to suspend a senior who is ready to graduate if he goes to the prom of his girlfriend (that obviously does not attend the same school he does).
The handbook for the 84-student Christian school says rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people’s hearts and minds.”
I mean seriously, did the school just rip off the script of footloose and use Rev. Moore’s arguments as their code of conduct? Talk about life imitating art.
Of course, the other side of this story is my usual comment about how one should not participate in a game and then complain about the rules in the middle. Don’t start a game of chess and then complain that you can’t pass GO and collect $200. The student and parents did sign a form that basically allowed the school to have total control of their personal lives while they attended that school. So perhaps the parents should have thought a little longer and harder about what kind of school they were sending their child to.
Here is my response that I emailed him immediately after reading the article:
I have been wondering since 2004 when the media would start to see through Jindal. It is the fault of the media for failing to do its job that Jindal is able to get away with all he has gotten away with. Had the media done fact checking, they would have known that Jindal is a fraud, a hypocrite, and absolutely insincere when it came to ideas like “ethics reform” (or anything else for that matter)
Before blaming the voters, perhaps the Times Picayune should do some introspection and look back at the past reporting done on Jindal over the years. Many of the news articles written about him sound either like fluff peices or like campaign press releases. Your newspaper allowed Bobby Jindal to waltz into the Governors office without a hint of criticism or questioning.
I suggest you read this blog post I made after your paper endorsed Jindal for Governor.
He lied about saving the healthcare system in Louisiana. He lied about bringing us our fair share of oil revenues. He lied about being supportive of ethics. And you guys not only let him do all those things, you published his lies as fact. And you wonder why the voters are not seeing through Jindal? The reason is because you helped create the monster in the first place! So before anyone on the Times Picayune blames the voters, they need to look inward and start blaming themselves first.
and that I first chose to scapegoat black voters (when I clearly uploaded 2 other videos unrelated to the black vote prior to uploading this one).