Bobby Jindal, governor of the State of Louisiana, who lusts for a role in national politics, discovered (Oops!) another hole in the state budget. Oh! What to do? Here's Bobby's list of programs which will be cut:
Among the deepest cuts were at the state Department of Health and Hospitals and the state Department of Children and Family Services.
Doctors, hospitals, mentally ill patients, pregnant women and dying patients will be affected by the state’s financial problems.
State
Sen. Sharon Broome, D-Baton Rouge, complained that the reductions
affect departments that deal with the state’s most fragile residents. “I
hope we can see these reductions with faces on them,” she told Nichols.
Faces? Does the governor see human faces? Would Jindal recognize a human face if he saw one?
Other reductions include:
- Contract reductions for health care providers who help the poor, the mentally ill and the drug-addicted.
- A 1 percent cut in the rate that doctors and hospitals are paid by the state to care for the poor.
- The elimination of dental benefits for pregnant women relying on the state for health care.
- Possibly laying off 63 state government workers.
Jindal is the man who wants to be president or vice-president of the US, or, if that doesn't happen, he wants a big job in Washington DC to have the power to mess up the country in the same way he's wrecked the state he "governs". He spends much of his time traveling around the country drumming up support, ignoring our wreck of a state, except to dash home from time to time to cut the budgets of state agencies. (For all I know, Jindal may cut the budget from afar, because he is not forthcoming with the local media about his out-of-state travels.) When the national media portray Jindal as a rising star in the "new" Republican Party, beware. The policies Jindal trumpets on the national scene are the same old Republican policies that advantage the rich at the expense of the poor and the middle class disguised by clever, manipulative words. Jindal is the consummate flim-flam man.
Bobby Jindal, governor of the State of Louisiana, who lusts for a role in national politics, discovered (Oops!) another hole in the state budget. Oh! What to do? Here's Bobby's list of programs which will be cut:
