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- Alheithinn, on 02/21/2009, -57/+202You pour bastards in Louisiana are going to have to vote this misguided religious fanatic out of office. His god isn't going to feed you or pay the rent.
- freedomjoe, on 02/21/2009, -50/+194"The Governor said the state will not use a portion of the stimulus package that requires the state to change its law to expand unemployment insurance (UI) coverage to qualify for up to $32.8 million of the federal stimulus funding because it ultimately would result in a tax increase on Louisiana businesses."
M y heart breaks for his constituents, who are already starting a recall against their rep who voted No on the stimulus plan. Party first, as people starve. - C0ntraRadical, on 02/21/2009, -26/+105Does this mean he agrees with the other $3,762,297,704 Louisiana is getting from the stimulus bill? Hardly a principled stand and it's his constituents who are making the sacrifice.
Hopefully Jindal pays the price for this political stunt come election time. - paintgrl, on 02/21/2009, -22/+88Hey I had no idea that all the levies were fixed and the lower quarter was all rebuilt and new. How wonderful for Bobby Jindal that his state is doing so well that he can play games with the very lives of his constituents.
- GeographyJoe, on 02/21/2009, -47/+111***** real!!! When are they going to get with reality??? People are OUT OF WORK and STARVING.
- USArugula, on 02/21/2009, -41/+101Hmmm, Louisiana has the 9th largest black population in the US, over 90% of black people voted for Obama. Result? Jindal is intentionally acting a blockade between Obama and the people who voted for him.
- freedomjoe, on 02/21/2009, -30/+79maybe Jindal couldn't live up to the Notice the President gave today that the money has to be used in a the right way and he would keep them accountable.
- inactive, on 02/21/2009, -18/+65I understand that people need that extra $25 week, but you have to understand the dire straights that Louisiana is under.
The state is still devastated and dilapidated. It ranks DEAD LAST at #50 for "Best states to do business in." Any tax on business would cause those who remain after the Hurricanes to bailout (literally, no pun intended) and create even more unemployment.
The unemployment rate in Louisiana is 5.5 percent, well below the national rate of 7.6 percent. I think if unemployment did increase, he would accept the $90 million.
Is partisanship playing a factor? Very likely, but Jindal isn't your average Republican knuckle dragger. He was a Rhodes Scholar in college, and from what I've studied about him, has done as well as one can do with a state left in almost literal ruin.
I just get the feeling that Digg is always in a "***** idiot Republicans who spend all this money -- and now they're bitching about how we spend money" mode. Welcome to politics, kids. Both parties are guilty of generational theft.
Citations: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/9/06beststates_Th ...
http://www.ktbs.com/news/Jobless-claims-continue-t ... - freedomjoe, on 02/21/2009, -11/+52they're already talking recall against their rep for voting No -- I can't believe this crap...I really can't. And then Jindal will try to blame Obama for the people starving in his state.
Now, will Palin have to earn her cred (or reverse her socialist label)? - USArugula, on 02/21/2009, -14/+53He's gambling his governorship on the presidency.
- freedomjoe, on 02/21/2009, -9/+46I hope so -- you're absolutely correct -- he is taking the rest of the money...and leaving the poor and desperate to fend for themselves. It's the financial Katrina.
- JenniferInMO, on 02/21/2009, -29/+65Ideology before people. Disgusting. So the ONLY thing he refused was help for people who are unemployed? More of the war on the poor and middle class. Shame on him.
- pintomp3, on 02/21/2009, -17/+52Jindal likes creationism, not job creation.
- GeographyJoe, on 02/21/2009, -8/+41Recall?
- EarlOfLade, on 02/21/2009, -18/+49Bobby Jindal is a young earth creationist who believes the universe is only 6000 years old and that man and dinosaurs co-existed peacefully.
The man is ***** insane and should not be in charge of anything.
He and Barbour in Mississippi, Palin and another governor has all refused the help. These morons are not thinking about anything but their ridiculous religious and political insane fantasies. - TheDHC, on 02/21/2009, -7/+35pour?
really? - joand315, on 02/21/2009, -14/+41Of all the things to reject in the stimulus bill, unemployment benefits make the least sense. If Jindal is hoping the poor people will move out of his state up north, he doesn't know his history. It's the people with means that leave.
- freedomjoe, on 02/21/2009, -5/+31My heart is breaking for those people. Do they have any way to stand up for themselves and fight this???
- shupy, on 02/21/2009, -20/+46Does he really think the rest of the country is looking at this and saying "hey, let's make that guy president!"
- poopsybythebay, on 02/21/2009, -16/+39Have they started talking about recalled him or do they have that in Louisiana?
- freedomjoe, on 02/21/2009, -12/+34state legislators can and most likely will override any ridiculous ideological gesture on Jindal's part. MOre theatre, let's hope.
- magicalnoodles, on 02/21/2009, -13/+34Jindal is playing with people's lives.
- novenator, on 02/21/2009, -16/+36This is quite entertaining watching all these GOP hopefuls trying to position themselves to be defeated in 2012. Jindall, Boner, Lindsay Graham (a name only a republican could get away with), Pawlenty, Palin, etc.
It's just too bad in this case the people of LA will be the ones suffering for ambition. - emkaysmith, on 02/21/2009, -11/+31@morgino -- I live here, you *****. Even Louisiana, as politically retarded as it is, does not deserve both Jindal AND Vitter. Two lying, self-righteous, self-serving, hypocritical bastards. Vitter considers himself superior to any of his constituents -- especially if they're black. His off-camera, off-mike casual racist comments are well-known. That's why he's so pleased New Orleans is considerably more white now than before Katrina, and why he's been so eager to purge black voters who had to flee the state from the electoral rolls.
Jindal thinks he's superior even to Vitter, bragging on his political ethics while pursuing unethical policies that injure even the mindless right-wingers who voted him into office. Ever since McCain looked him over as a potential VP candidate last year, he's got stars in his eyes. If he has to step in Louisiana's face in order to boost his national rep among the rednecks, he'll do it without hesitation. He's raised several million dollars already on OUT-OF-STATE tours -- after complaining about Democrats raising "foreign" money.
Both these turds me want to vomit. - realeiger, on 02/21/2009, -5/+24Digger1123
were you paying attention the last 8 years? If this were daddy Bush handing out the money, they would be feeding at the trough just like everyone else. This is politics of the crassest sort. - freedomjoe, on 02/21/2009, -12/+30except poor sarah haas budget problems from that socialist program of giving money back to people from the oil co:
"The Governor has announced a $445 million cut in next year's proposed budget. Sarah had based the original budget on totally unrealistic oil prices. The new projected price is still too high and we could reasonably expect further revisions to the revised budget based on another revised projected oil price. Are you following it?
When Republican Representative and co-chair of the House Finance Committee, Mike Hawker, saw the budget she first proposed, he sent her a letter expressing concern. Sarah's response went something like this: “Don’t worry your pretty little head about it”.
Under the new proposal, the state would have to draw approximately $1.2 billion from savings accounts to balance the budget. Ouch! All these complicated sums are too much for Sarah's pretty little head!" - woodsjransom, on 02/21/2009, -17/+35Well he can kiss all of his future political aspirations good bye. That is going to turn Louisiana into a powder keg near lit matches. Now the businesses are really going to have something to worry about. That was dumb on all levels.
- kmom5, on 02/21/2009, -20/+37I would call him an ass, but that doesn't begin to cover it.
I truly feel for these people. - shupy, on 02/21/2009, -9/+25Yes Republicans, keep it up. Show the world your true colors.
- shupy, on 02/21/2009, -4/+20Yes, they can vote. They can protest.
They can petition and hold a recall. And they can let their elected representatives know how they feel. Governors can be impeached too. - GeographyJoe, on 02/21/2009, -3/+19It says upthread they're trying to recall a congressman who voted no on the stim. don't know the rules about governors though. it costs money to recall.
- magicalnoodles, on 02/21/2009, -15/+31My house is burning down but I oppose the waste of water for use in putting out fires.
- Ishiguro, on 02/21/2009, -2/+18I thought it was:
Republicans: screw everybody
Democrats: screw everybody - Sid0101, on 02/21/2009, -16/+31***** Bobby Jindal.
He is the type that would sell his soul just to gain more politically.
He converted to Christianity just to further his political goals.
Now, he has sold out on the people who elected him to the office just so he can win ***** brownie points with his christian fanatic overlords that is the Republican party. - novenator, on 02/21/2009, -12/+27These people don't give a rats ass about anyone other than themselves and their puppet masters.
- goes211, on 02/21/2009, -6/+20Do you even think before posting illogical crap like that? Even if your logic was sound ( which it is not ), Louisiana only voted 40% for Obama?
- deweyhewson, on 02/21/2009, -16/+30Shhh! You'll spoil Digg's political circle jerk!
- MalevolentDust, on 02/21/2009, -0/+14I'm from Louisiana. Most of the state is not Catholic. From around I-10 and below you will fine they may be in the majority but north of I-10 it's mostly Baptist and Pentecostal.
When I was in college, one of my teachers was upset by the Baptist church she went to. They were raising money for missionary work. They wanted to travel to south Louisiana and save the Catholics. Her view: "Why don't we take that money and talk to people who don't already belive in God instead of annoying the ones who already do?" :-) - buzzben, on 02/21/2009, -15/+29And it's his own party's fault.
INCOMPREHENSIBLE. - wreckosaurus, on 02/21/2009, -11/+24What do you expect from a guy that believes in creationism and literally performed an exorcism on a girl, and claimed it cured her cancer.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/20 ...
This asshat represents everything wrong with the republicans.
And to all the wingers who were in here the other day defending republicans fighting for stimulus money they opposed, how are you going to defend this one? One of them is wrong, either the republicans refusing the money, or the ones taking it after they complained about it. - twiztidsinz, on 02/21/2009, -1/+14Pull your head out of your ass and look at how many jobs have been lost and continue to be lost...
- sharpfork, on 02/21/2009, -4/+16How about you defend the reason he gave for not taking the $ instead of assuming it will raise taxes.
If they take the money and write into the law that the extension only last as long as there is federal funding, there is no raising of taxes on business in LA and Jindal's logic breaks down.
This is a simple solution but does not meet Jindal's political needs for 2012. - shupy, on 02/21/2009, -7/+19Well, it is up to the people of Louisiana now.
- deathandtaverns, on 02/21/2009, -11/+23Okay I might be wrong but can't the state legislature overrule him, so that the state can take the money anyways and he wont have a way to measure his failure. Then when the stimulus doesn't immediately make us all vomit rainbows,he can say "See? I told you so. I even tried not to be part of the problem but my legislature made me take the money." and even if the stimulus is seen as a success he doesnt have to be held accountable for his decision.
- TigerStar337, on 02/21/2009, -9/+20Let the people in Louisiana eat cake!
- brucealmighty, on 02/21/2009, -17/+27This pea-brain is the best hope of the Repubs for 2012...? Well, good luck with that...and I'm sure Sarah P. will be happy to fill out the ticket. Meanwhile back in the real world the rest of us will actually be trying to make life a little better instead of a little worse......
- EarlOfLade, on 02/21/2009, -7/+17Jindal has the perfect solution to the problem - prayer.
The man is a religious nutcase. - macgarp, on 02/21/2009, -6/+16There is a provision in the stimulus bill that says that if a governor refuses the allocated money, the state legislature can vote to get the money anyway. So if you are unemployed in LA or know people who are unemployed and could benefit from this, tell your state rep to vote for the money! :)
- BossKey, on 02/21/2009, -1/+10unlike Rush Limbaugh.....?
- ace429k, on 02/21/2009, -1/+10I ***** on your bed this morning.
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