The indisputable disaster of: How Jindal destroyed Louisiana

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Then there’s Bobby Jindal, who decimated Louisiana. The state currently faces a projected $1.6 billion budget deficit after passing huge tax cuts. To pay for the cuts, Jindal cut higher education spending so much that “rats scurry through dormitories” at one historically black college. Even conservative commentator Rod Dreher writes, “If Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign goes anywhere, it will not be because of his record governing Louisiana, but in spite of it” in a blog post titled “How Bobby Jindal Wrecked Louisiana.” The Washington Post recently reported that Jindal’s policies are at the edge of fiscal collapse:

A few universities will shut down and declare bankruptcy. Graduations will be canceled. Students will lose scholarships. Select hospitals will close. Patients will lose funding for treatment of disabilities. Some reports of child abuse will go uninvestigated.
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The Post created a helpful chart (see below) to show how Jindal’s massive tax cuts blew a hole in the budget and how college students ended up picking up the tab. Luckily, the state now has a Democratic governor, whose first priority was an executive order to accept the Medicaid expansion, which will add 450,000 formerly uninsured people to the Medicaid rolls.

 

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The governor and the GOP state legislature really have balanced the budget on the back of higher education. Under Jindal’s leadership, the state has cut its spending on higher education to the bone. Now they’re sucking marrow. This just in from LSU:

LSU is facing a state budget cut of more than 40 percent to its operating budget, a move that could result in turning students away, reducing staff and shutting down entire programs at the Baton Rouge flagship campus.
“The potential that could hit us would be tuition fee increases, 3,000 less course offerings, hiring freeze on all new faculty, which would put a freeze on 125 of our faculty (searches),” LSU President F. King Alexander said.
The state is facing a projected $1.6 billion budget shortfall next year, and higher education institutions have been told to prepare for $300 million to $400 million in reduced funding in the coming academic year.
If that happens, LSU could be on the hook for more than $60 million, roughly 40 percent of the university’s operating budget.
“You can just take 40 percent out of everything we do, ” Alexander said. “If we were flushed with money, we could probably handle it better.”
LSU receives $107 million in funding from the state, and if the proposed budget from Gov. Bobby Jindal were to go through, LSU would get $55 million, a drop of 51.4 percent.
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This is on top of a cumulative 46 percent cut to higher ed over the Jindal years. If this cut goes through, LSU (and other state universities) will be getting only 25 percent of the state funding it received when Jindal took office. Think about that. It’s a disaster. Gov. Jindal and the GOP legislature have been a catastrophe for higher ed in this state.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-bobby-jindal-wrecked-louisiana/

We are proud of all things Indian, Except this born looser called Jindal.

 

[krish44]

Why regret?

We can send many more jindals from india.

We have them in plenty here.

They will shore up the state finances and make a quick buck for themselves.

Banias are enterprising.