TOPS Payments Stopped Immediately

we are in the top 5 of state workers per capita. everyone else has an ebt? card they use proudly. many do both.

 

I've had to pay the state every year for the last 6 years. I know I'm not the only one and I don't make 6 figures. Where the fuck did the money go?

 

Louisiana needs to legalize pot and tax it, stop spending so much fucking money on prisons and here we go baby.

 

Natural disasters suck....Katrina and Rita fucked y'all over and they keep on giving. It's not just about prisons or agriculture or rebuilding the reefs. There is a long history of corruption that has never stopped.

"[F]or genuine, savory, infused-in-the-gumbo style public venality, Louisiana still has Illinois, and most of America, beat. Ranked according to corruption convictions per capita from 1998-2007, Louisiana is No. 3, well ahead of Illinois at No. 19. (Only Washington, D.C., and North Dakota ranked higher--and in North Dakota's case, the results were skewed because of its extremely small population.)"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/27/louisiana-beats-illinois_n_180051.html


"Hurricane-related graft merits its own dissertation, but here are a few highlights: 70 percent of Katrina contracts—$7.4 billion worth—were awarded without bids. The FBI is investigating a New Orleans housing agency that spent millions in federal dollars to rehabilitate almost no homes. And government fraud cases increased 243 percent during the two years after the storm, compared with the two years before it, centered around New Orleans.

Katrina was hardly the beginning of corruption in the greater New Orleans area. The U.S. attorney working downstate has issued more than 240 corruption indictments since he officially got the job in 2005, with more on the way. The former city council president is doing three years in federal lockup for a bribe-and-kickback scheme behind parking garage contracts. Outgoing Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who ran in his first term as a reformist, is leaving under a cloud after his family vacations to Hawaii and Chicago were paid for by a campaign contributor whose police security-camera system (which mostly doesn't work) was overpaid by $4 million. The Orleans Parish School Board president went to prison in 2007 for taking$140,000 in bribes (another contract award, this one for a software system). Police investigators are charged with covering up a shooting of six unarmed civilians after Hurricane Katrina. Even the tax assessors are in on the act. And that's just the accusations we know about: Investigators last year discovered 140 city agencies not included on any city audit. 140!"
http://www.newsweek.com/louisiana-most-corrupt-state-69541

 

i pay both. i need to claim a kid but i wanted to talk to vball first.

 

Louisiana you gotta love it.

 

It's just not true. Snap program is funded by the feds. I disagree with him doing away with work requirement but it had zero effect on budget. Government raises would save a million bucks or so. 939 million to go. Long term, these things help but John Kennedy says "get rid of medicaid waste". Well of course that's a good idea, but how. And even if you can, you'll realize no savings by June.

 

This should be done immediately. Can't believe Edwards is against it. Probably not good for his lawyer buddies.

 

And by the way, for the most part, JBE's administration didn't give the raises. Jindal guys gave their departments raises in the weeks before they left.

 

I'm just saying if you are in such a huge crisis, and everyone else has to pull up their boot straps and tighten their belt and whatever other cliche fits, I think it's pretty shitty that state workers get a raise. I mean that's paid for by the people who have to do all those cliches.