C’mon. The legislature has little to do with healthcare outcomes and whether or not kids can read. Both problems have more to do with our poor diet (tasty but fattening) and the fact that, with the exception of Walker Hines, most of us started screwing around at too early an age, leaving our state with a high rate of teen pregnancy, which produces yet another generation of overweight, stupid people who perpetuate the problem. Until we learn to stop eating everything out of the FryDaddy, and tell our daughters to put the dikk down (remember we can’t teach safe sex, only pour money into useless abstinence programs), then we will continue to have these problems, even if the legislature worked for free.

seer sucker - 03 July 2008 03:17 PM

C’mon. The legislature has little to do with healthcare outcomes and whether or not kids can read. Both problems have more to do with our poor diet (tasty but fattening) and the fact that, with the exception of Walker Hines, most of us started screwing around at too early an age, leaving our state with a high rate of teen pregnancy, which produces yet another generation of overweight, stupid people who perpetuate the problem. Until we learn to stop eating everything out of the FryDaddy, and tell our daughters to put the dikk down (remember we can’t teach safe sex, only pour money into useless abstinence programs), then we will continue to have these problems, even if the legislature worked for free.

So, if your hypothesis is correct, why are we spending tens of billions on state government?

Highways? Law enforcement?

Then, let’s do those things better and do it with fewer state employees.

Based on what other states do, the number of state employees should be halved.

By the way, my opinion of the quality of people in this state is far higher than yours. They do very well when they go to other states to work and live. Why is that, do you think?

That’s because we often send our best and brightest out of state, while a large portion of those who can’t ween themselves off of the government teet stay here driving up the cost of government.  And, I’m proud to call myself a Louisianan, and do my best to promote the state when I travel outside its borders.

I guess my real point is that there are serious problems that need to be addressed and overcome, yet they go unnoticed by most people since Bobby Swindal has been successful in tearing down our image, so he could “rebuild” it.