Tornado Alley (PROG)

[decouverte d Elbe]

(Anger in The Bayou State)


Does Bobby Jindal want us to die or is this just politics?
It's probably both. While Bobby continues to capture mainstream media attention with his oil spill antics, draconian cuts to the health care and public education budgets in Louisiana are fast becoming a reality. The Board of Regents voted on June 25 to cancel statewide access to electronic books and journals. In a public university system in which new paper books and journals were last ordered in the Carter administration, this cancellation presents a particular set of problems. It certainly sets UNO directly on the path to being a trade school, but that's what the Governor wants after all. Me, I'm wondering how to write a dissertation with no resources. Maybe I won't. I mean fuck it, what would I do with a PhD in Louisiana anyway? Cuts equaling those made to higher education are being made to the state's health care system. Mental and physical health facilities are going to begin shedding staff due to massive cuts at a time when we surely can't spare the care. LSU's Health Sciences Center could lose as much as $800,000 as a result of being hit by cuts from both the higher education and health care slash and burn.

I'm aware that the Board of Regents are responsible for higher education's newest and most obnoxious cut, and I'm aware that the state's legislators are the ones throwing up their hands and saying "well, we've just got to find a way to cut government spending." "Why are you so angry at Bobby?, " you might be asking. Jindal himself is too busy ignoring scientific evidence that sand berms and rock walls will increase coastal erosion while simultaneously accusing the Obama administration (correctly) of ignoring expert evidence that a moratorium on drilling isn't necessary to improve safety conditions. I get it. But what the fuck is wrong with the Board of Regents, the state legislature, and the rest of us? Why the fuck can't we see that the long term impacts of reduced health care and education are going to paralyze the state entirely? When the fuck did we agree to this neoliberal, no-tax, bullshit? Why can't we see that the fucking hole in the budget matches the fucking tax cuts that fucking Bobby Jindal put in place when he got elected? And that little extra gap, the one where the emergency funds used to be? That's the money that those north Louisiana crackers stole to pay for new cattle gates and festivals likely celebrating the continued ignorance and poor health of the Republican-voting cracker population. Fuck Bobby Jindal. Fuck the Board of Regents. Fuck the state legislature. Fuck north Louisiana crackers. And fuck us. We can't go to these assholes and beg for them to make some sense and fix the budget deficit through taxation. We let them trick some sort of voting majority into believing that you can run a state on no taxes. But fuck Bobby Jindal and his political aspirations most of all. Fuck him, fuck him, fuck him.


Jul 10, 2010 2:32:43 PM

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