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Bobby Jindal promised:

Close the spending loophole that allows departments to request funding for state workers that do not exist in order to reprogram that funding for other purposes. Any funding allocated to a department for a state worker should be returned to the treasury if those workers are not hired or needed.

There is no spending loophole, there is only a failure to exercise proper fiscal management.

Vacant positions currently exist throughout the state budget. This budget was proposed by Bobby Jindal.  Are all the 3,000 vacant positions “needed”?

To quote Bobby Jindal: “It’s time to match action to the rhetoric.”

It’s time to hold Bobby accountable.

C.B.

1 CB 7:34 am

Bobby Jindal promised:

“Upon the retirement of a state worker, examine opportunities to incorporate those job duties among existing workforce. Before replacing a retired worker, we owe it to the taxpayers to determine if improved efficiency in government can best meet the needs of the people.”

In the first 10 months of his term, Jindal has increased (not decreased) the number of state employees.

Is every state worker doing his or her job at peak efficiency?   If so, who determined that?  Where’s the data?

Was the above promise simply campaign rhetoric?

To quote Bobby Jindal: “It’s time to match action to our rhetoric.”

It’s time to hold Bobby accountable.

C.B.

1 CB 7:30 am

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words.

In this case, the cartoon above, compliments of my friend and editorial cartoonist Hank Wilson* says it all about how the Jindal Administration plays the budget game.

The Jindal Administration threaten cuts to Higher Education and Healthcare. They make no cuts to billions of dollars in pork barrel projects and programs, vacant positions, slush funds, etc.

One of these days the taxpayers of our state will wake-up and say they’ve had enough of the game. Until then, we shall remain hostage to the leges, a governor and bureaucrats; forced to accept higher taxes, higher fees and more legalized gambling in lieu of fiscal responsibility.

Jindal’s so-called “reform” administration plays the game exactly as did the “bad ol’” EWE administrations.

Been there; done that, too many times.

I’m still looking to elect at least a few folks who have the best interest of the taxpayers instead of those of government as their top priority.

C.B.

*Hank’s cartoons are published weekly in various newspapers around the state and posted on this website (see link) on Wednesdays.

1 CB 8:33 am