I think the last time we did this it turned into a Shreveport vs. every one else debate. Most people were joking but that didnt seem to matter. I dont think the Shreveport poster(s) ever came back. :hihi:
Well, I hate the idea of giving any business my tax money. However, it happens because if we don't, another state will. The economic impact of the Saints on this state is monumental in Superbowl economic impact alone. Tax revenue from visiting players, tax revenue from concessions, tax revenue from gameday purchases, tax revenue from ticket sales, etc. I think you get the picture. Any proof that we're "laying off thousands of state and university employees this year" to make the Saints deal happen? The contract already stands for a payment of $26 million, but instead we're going to end up forking over $6 million (tops) in cash, another $2.5 million for rent (eventually) of space that's already budgeted by the state and investing $85 million into the Superdome to extend the life of the structure by at least another two decades. Pretty cheap in comparison to the deal the state just gave for a chicken processing plant or what they were going to give to ThyssenKrup for the steel mill that ended up in Alabama.
Very well said, except Baton Rouge hasn't been white anglo/saxon in many years. You must not get out much. Very well said again. I would add that many from N.O. have had an arrogant better than thou attitude for generations. I saw it in my years at LSU with students from New Orleans and in my hundreds of trips down there through my life. If the transplants don't like it here and New Orleans is so much better just go home. If you would rather stay here then just shut up.
I get the picture that it is great for New Orleans. It don't help folks in Grant Parish very much. They ain't the Louisiana Saints, they're the New Orleans Saints, let New Orleans bribe them. We'll know in July when the budget is finalized, but yes, thousands will be laid off from state departments, especially hospitals and universities, according to the department heads forecasts. It ain't cheap at all and unnecessary if the Saints could make a buck like they are supposed to. The chicken plant is another Bobby Jindal Fiasco. Experienced, educated researchers at LSU will be laid off this summer and leave the state to find work . . . so that a chicken plant can be subsidized. That plant will likely end up with a staff of illegal Mexicans like many of the other chicken plants around the country.
You'd be surprised. Baton Rouge and the entire Florida Parishes is still mostly white anglo-saxon protestant. The blacks are significant in the city itself, but they are mostly protestant, too. The cultural differences between BR and NOLA are huge.
My wife works with a nurse that is from Baton Rouge and she is constantly talking about how much more she liked it in B.R. and how everything is better. So it's a two way street. I don't know if that means she hates N.O., but I guess she just rathers B.R.. That's exactly what my wife says about her. I've lived in both Baton Rouge and New Orleans and love them both. Each for different reasons.
