Louisiana a Failed State

Bobby Jindal to leave Louisiana’s next governor with budget mess.”Year after year, Louisiana didn’t have enough money to cover its expenses, yet Gov. Bobby Jindal refused to roll back income tax cuts or ever-increasing corporate tax breaks. Instead, he raided reserve funds and sold off state property.Just in case this wasn’t quite brutal enough, note that when Jindal became governor seven years ago, he inherited a healthy, $900 million budget surplus from his predecessor, Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco.In other words, Jindal, in Bush-like fashion, quickly transformed a good situation into a bad one by imposing a failed conservative economic agenda, leaving a big mess for his successor to clean up.Rod Dreher The American Conservative

Southern University and A&M College, a historically black institution along the Mississippi River, mold spreads across building walls, and rats scurry through dormitories. Eighteen buildings have roof leaks; in two, raw sewage occasionally belches onto the floor. An entire section of the library is off limits because of a perpetually broken fire alarm.WP

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How Bobby Jindal Wrecked Louisiana http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-bobby-jindal-wrecked-louisiana/