Mary Landrieu's vote will cost tax payers $100 Million

Did your teacher ever tell you that there are no dumb questions? If so, they lied. I hope it's rhetorical. Just in case it's not, here are a few reasons:

1) Louisiana ranks fourth in crude oil production. Two percent of U.S. oil reserves are located in Louisiana waterways.
2) Louisiana's natural gas reserves account for about 5 percent of the entire country's total.
3) It is the port of entry and exit for the largest inland shipping water in North America, positively impacting tax revenue and taxes.
4) Louisiana is the third largest producer of petroleum and the largest in petroleum refining.
Louisiana is home to the largest concentration of natural gas processing plants, crude oil refineries and petro-chemical production plants this side of the Atlantic ocean.
5) Louisiana supplies twenty-five percent of the country's natural gas.
6) Louisiana supplies the country with twenty-five percent of it's seafood as well.

Every time a hurricane hits this state, the entire country feels it. What do we get in return? Cancer alley, an eroding coastline thanks to irresponsible corporations, imported seafood, third world living conditions, etc.

Those are just a few reasons why the country should care, but they're all pretty damn big. Why should I care about the rest of the country? The best possible scenario for this state would be to secede from the country, effectively making Louisiana into the coonass version of Kuwait. You'd sure care about Louisiana then.

That might not be what you and I think that government should be, but that's exactly what it is here in the real world. It doesn't need you to agree or disagree with it to be that way. It simply is and it's too big for large-scale radical change.

The Federal Taxes sent to Washington are just a drop in the bucket compared to the oil royalties collected from energy companies sent to Washington, made with Louisiana blood, sweat and resources.

Ethics, morals and values are for states with more than 9 electoral votes. As long as it's legal, I'm fine with it. You point out how Mary's actions were illegal and I'll join you on the bandwagon.

I have tried very hard to avoid conveying this message because it brings nothing to the debate, but it's awfully hard when people walk around in mock horror at the way our country has worked for the past two centuries. It's politics. It predates the country by hundreds of years. Anyone ever elected to any office knows that this is how the game is played and they either play it willingly or are ineffective leaders.

I don't care what party my representative belongs to, as long as they're Louisiana first and foremost like me. We've been raked over the coals by the majority in the country since the seventies and we have no business lowering ourselves to the idiotic dance of two-party politics that the rest of the country sees fit to keep time to. We a state that has elected a Democrat for Senator on multiple occasions while electing a Republican President, so I feel pretty safe in saying that most of my fellow Louisianians feel the same way that I do.

 

then why do they need federal tax dollars if they have oil to sell?

why do they need federal tax dollars if they have natural gas to sell?

why do they need federal tax dollars if they have profitable ports?

why do they need federal tax dollars if they have these profitable refineries?

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i think you get the idea.

so? is it the job of the government to stabilize oil prices? isnt cheap oil ruining our environment?

what does this have to do with why LA should get far more tax dollars?

i am from LA, and i like it, but for none of those reasons should i favor them getting tax dollars from other states.

none of what you are saying makes any sense whatsoever.

i didnt say you should. you apparently dont, as you favor taking their money away from them for your state.

ethics are for everyone.

i think your political philosophy can be boiled down to: "me wanty free stuff"

 

I think that you're being disingenuous because anyone with a working knowledge of our government should know the answer to those questions.

 

Won't stop conservatives from spending it, though

 

translation, you want free stuff, you want taxpayers from other parts of the country to give money to LA because of selfishness, even though LA has few people and lots of natural resources.

 

Translation: I have no idea what I am talking about, but I enjoy passing judgment on people with limited knowledge because this is a message board and no one's coming through the monitor to hold me accountable.

I really don't know why I ever bother responding to you.

 

your policy is to take as much as possible from others. that is bad. there is no way to justify it. the goal of government should not be to take from your fellow man.

you argument that LA needs to take from everyone else because they have oil and gas is ludicrous and makes the exact opposite of sense. perhaps we should send saudia arabia more money so they too deal with the fact they that, like LA, have the horrible burden of having oil to sell.

again, it is exactly your attitude that ruins everything. because everyone wants to take, everyone want to clamor to get more and more money from the government. nobody has any principles, they only think of how they can screw everyone else.

ask not what your country can do for you.

because you feel obliged to defend your ludicrous position.

like i said before, LA is getting back 1.70 for every federal dollar paid. presumably you think this isnt enough. you feel like taxpayers in other states need to work harder for LA residents?

selfish. terrible. immoral.

 

Whatever the phuck that's supposed to mean.

 

Even you're smart enough to figure it out

 

This crap is exactly why we need political reform ahead of any other reform in this country.
There is nothing more important than this issue.
What is good for the states isn't always good for the country and vice versa.

This country is going straight down the toilet.
People no longer do whats good for the country, they are too busy blaming each other and comparing notes.
To hell with the country!:dis: