Jindal cuts $248M to Health Care and Education

[jus_the_facts]

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20091223/NEWS01/912230316/1002/Jindal-cuts--248M

BATON ROUGE — Health care services and public colleges are bearing the brunt of cuts to close a $248 million midyear state deficit under spending reductions made Tuesday by Gov. Bobby Jindal to rebalance the budget.

The Department of Health and Hospitals will lose $108 million, and higher education will take an $84 million cut to cover more than three-quarters of the gap in the $29 billion budget for the fiscal year that ends June 30. "We've got to limit government spending so we can live within our means," Jindal said.


The state Social Services Department took a $14 million hit, elementary and secondary education received a $16 million cut and the charity hospitals run by Louisiana State University lost $2.5 million. "Every agency will be having to make some tough choices," Jindal said.


The reductions fall on some agencies and services that had already endured cuts as they started the budget year. Any health care cuts in the Louisiana Medicaid program will grow worse because state Medicaid dollars draw down additional federal matching cash.

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The sick and uneducated get a resounding "let 'em eat cake" just in time for Xmas and the new year. :woohoo:

[BOSSHOG]

1. Piyush's compassionate conservatism

Cantcha feel the love? People in red states don't need no stinking education or health care. All they need to know is who to vote for.

Hey Jus_the_facts - Merry Christmas to you and if I may ask....

WHO DAT!!!!!

[jus_the_facts]

5. Thanks BOSS...same to you and yours....

....ahh WHO DAT...the Cowpokes burst DAT bubble. :D

:hi:

[leftofcool]

2. That's the way, Bobby..

Cut education and health first.

[tishaLA]

3. Maybe he figures the money Sen Landrieu got will make up for part of it

So Jindal is just being a good Christian....robbing from Peter to pay Paul.

[jus_the_facts]

10. I wish they'd CHOKE on that money....seems only fair. nt

[Quantess]

4. What didn't he cut?

What are his priorities, I wonder?

[yankeeinlouisiana]

6. Not raising taxes. Period. End of

sentence. He has no other objective. And my son is starting college in January. Lucky me.

:grr:

I really hate jindal.

[sakabatou]

7. Jindal wants to be just like Reagan and *.

[onethatcares]

8. did he just create "death panels"?

I mean, you take away hospitalization and people are gonna die.

Maybe he should cut his own salary and perks, or would that be too tough a choice to make?

[depakid]

9. Now there's a prescription for a successful society!

a third world society, that is.

[Neecy]

11. Why, oh why, do people keep voting for these goons?

[pitohui]

16. well in this case they voted for him because he ran essentially un-opposed

did anyone here besides me and bosshog speak up and say anything much when gov. kathleen blanco was being demonized? when it her vs. jindal, the voters chose her -- unfortunately, GOP fuckwits baying for blood pretty every moment of the day she was in office and the opposite side was never heard from -- she was tossed to the wolves and decided not to run again and who can blame her

[DatManFromNawlins]

22. Blanco deserved every bit of the criticism levied against her

There's a photo of her in the encyclopedia when you look up "shit for brains," along with Sean Hannity and the current roster of the Philadelphia Eagles.

[hfojvt]

12. thank goodness those tax cuts paid for themselves

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/101

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Asshole.

The Republican plan...keep'em sick and stupid, then they are bound to vote Republican.

[KrR]

19. and support Israel too n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

23. What does that have to do with anything?

[Tutankhamun]

14. That's what happens when people are foolish enough

to vote for a man WHO ACTUALLY PERFORMED A FRIGGIN EXORCISM! Only in America.

[Zynx]

15. This is why we put so much of the stimulus into health and education. Without it, these cuts

would have been 5-10x bigger I assure you and in almost every state. Millions would be kicked while they are already down. A sad day indeed.

[1776Forever]

17. Piyush doesn't fall very far from his fathers homeland does he? The caste system is alive in LA!

As written in the following:

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10379/10379.intro.php

Uninsured in America: life and death in the land of opportunity By Susan Starr Sered, Rushika J. Fernandopulle

"In a broader sense, the death spiral serves as a metaphor for the deep changes taking place in American society as the demarcation between rich and poor traditionally fluid distinction in our society hardens into a static barrier between the caste of the healthy and the caste of those who are fated to become and remain sick."

[Divine Discontent]

18. yep - Jindal clearly believes in a caste system... what an absolute shit stain he is.

[lies and propaganda]

20. Im a native living in Cali now..

just had a dumbass friend from home right me some propaganda email about a 'study'' done to show LA people are the happiest in the nation, while horrible California was but 46!

I told him, were also the fattest and least educated.

he said taht there is then truth in the statements "ignorance is bliss" and "fat and happy."


YOU try arguing with a dumbass redneck!

[n2doc]

21. And yet he is supposed to be the most popular Gov in the USA

What the hell is wrong down there? Actually, living in Georgia, I think I know...