Bobby Jindal’s Hostages
There’s been some talk about a clutch of very conservative Republican governors from the South, led by Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, “turning down” federal stimulus money. This is mostly nonsense—they’re all actually taking the vast majority of the money and in most cases there’s no real option of declining. But Jindal seems to be genuinely putting the meat on the bones of one aspect of this refusenikery by declining to change Louisiana law in such a way as to make its citizens eligible for extended unemployment insurance benefits. The nominal reason for this is that Jindal is claiming that taking the money would lead to a tax increase on Louisiana businesses, but his reasoning is hard to follow. Ryan Powers observes:
But it is not clear why participating in the expanded unemployment insurance program would result in tax increases for business. By Jindal’s own estimate, the recovery package would have funded his state’s unemployment expansion for three years, at which point the state could — if it chose to do so — phase out the program.
As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin suggested earlier today, perhaps Jindal’s presidential ambitions are “clouding” his judgement. “I think he’s been tapped as the up-and-coming Republican to petition a run for president the next time it goes around. So he has a certain vernacular, and a certain way he needs to talk right now,” Nagin said.
My other thought is that there may be a “beggar thy neighbor” strategy going on here. If Louisiana makes its unemployment benefits less generous than what’s available in other states, then maybe unemployed citizens will leave Louisiana for Texas and other neighboring states, thus creating an artificial appearance of an improved economic situation. It would be the equivalent of Mike Bloomberg fighting poverty by demolishing all the low-income housing in New York and hoping the poor people all move elsewhere.
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February 21st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
“Beggar thy neighbor” makes sense on paper, but surely in practice it’s too clever by half — given the short time span we’re dealing with.
I think Nagin has it right; this is about presidential ambition. He wants to be able to claim “we did just fine *without* your steenkin stimulus.”
February 21st, 2009 at 5:24 pm
When someone on unemployment moves to another state, they continue to receive their unemployment benefits from the state they left, so this move on Jindal’s part doesn’t really give the unemployed a reason to move on.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I myself think that the Obama Administration needs to focus strongly on getting the Digital TV Transition rebates out faster.
I still haven’t received mine. Probably the six million other people on the list are still waiting as well.
As I’ve noted, The Administration is playing with fire by taking this issue too lightly:
From http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/174518-KARE_Man_Shoots_TV_Over_Converter_Confusion.php?rssid=20065
“The station reports that a 70-year-old Joplin man was arrested and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm after shooting his TV set. Responding to a report of shots being fired, the station reported, the police found the man angry that he had both lost his cable and had been unable to get his new DTV converter box to work.
According to the man’s wife, he had been drinking.”
February 21st, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Don, you’ve convinced me. We should re-institute Prohibition.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I love this. The Dixie states are all the GOP has, so it is using its power publicly to impoverish them. Excellent! 2010 is going to be beautiful. This is the kind of strategy that would surely have elected a Democratic senator from Georgia.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
People need to learn that if they are stupid enough to vote for Republicans, they get what they deserve. Jindal is just giving the people what they want and they richly deserve to get it good and hard.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I think you are confusing unemployment insurance with welfare.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:51 pm
“I think you are confusing unemployment insurance with welfare.” One of the best thing we could do is stop pretending Social Security and Unemployment aren’t “welfare”. They are all forms of social spending, but to make them more palatable to there often middle class recipients we go to great ends to not call them welfare.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Jindal is glib and smooth, but his alleged “charisma” is nonexistant. I find him a little weird, too. Rush’s oxy must be clouding his brain when he calls him the next Reagan.
The “no thanks” to the money won’t play well as they think.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Ray Nagin allows himself to be quoted questioning another politician’s judgment? Now that’s a funny.
More importantly it will be the Louisiana legislature, with Dem majorities in both houses, and not Jindal who decides whether or not to change the relevant law.
Jindal is acting like any good politician and will end up having it both ways I’d imagine.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Geez, it’s the racism, that’s so obvious. Look, here’s the scoop. Blacks are at the bottom of the labour pool. Their unemployment rate is twice that of whites. Blacks are last hired and first hired. Their employment concentrates in the service industries, menial industries, agriculture and economic sectors that are most vulnerable to recessionary pressures.
So basically, the Dixy states are doing what they always do: Screwing blacks over left and right, because there’s nothing that Dixyland racists love more than screwing over the darkies.
Of course, it’ll also screw over a lot of poor whites. But hell, the well off and secure whites have always been willing to let ‘Bubba’ take it on the chin if it means keeping the coloured folk in their place. Let’s face it the ‘whites who matter’ the Bush set, the country club set, the management class, the landowners, the monied set couldn’t care less about their working class white brethren. Such people are practically coloureds themselves, and fit mostly for keeping the coloured down. And most pleasingly, the cracker sector, stoked up on god, guns and religion, are always ready to take the hit for the team.
So it has been in the Pelagra belt, and so it shall always be. The South simply doesn’t take to redemption. They’re still cursing FDR, who brought them rural electrification and national nutrition standards. They really do want to be a third world backwater.
Racism is America’s national passtime, doncha know. It’s the real reason America’s schools and safety nets are so sub-par compared to other civilised nations. It’s because Americans will always cut their throats rather than give blacks a break.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Skeptic says:
Racism is America’s national passtime, doncha know. It’s the real reason America’s schools and safety nets are so sub-par compared to other civilised nations. It’s because Americans will always cut their throats rather than give blacks a break.
Ah yes, America suffers on almost all points when compared to the civilized nations of Black Africa.
Indeed, how else are we to explain the mass migration of American Blacks to their ethnic homelands?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Ethnic homeland being…. Detroit? Georgia?
What’s the ethnic homeland for a person who was brought over to America a hundred years before your ancestors got the notion?
It’s amusing how ‘Ship em back to Africa’ is such a tired refrain. Efforts to solve America’s black problem by sending them back is a 19th century dodge, buddy boy. Try and keep up.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Well, any temporary increase in welfare is a bit of a slippery slope, because once welfare is increased, it’s hard to reduce, even if it is only meant to be temporary.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Let’s keep the spotlight on Jindal. His policies will fail miserably, and he’ll piss off every non-Christian and half the Christians as well. Let’s see how the imposition of radical Christian philosophy and Supply-side Economics really works. I don’t give a shit about the people of Louisiana anyway, so I’m willing to allow this experiment to fail. And the people of Louisiana voted for this experiment, so bring it on. But the federal government must take good data on this so we can later show why this is a bad strategy. The lab rats are willing, so let’s experiment!
February 21st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I can’t believe you don’t see (or remark on) the obvious parallel with Mayor Carcetti’s decision not to solicit state aid for Baltimore.
For those who didn’t watch season 5 of the Wire, I connect the dots in a brief post here.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Louisiana tried this already. I think the official program was called Hurricane Katrina.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Jindal is acting like any good politician and will end up having it both ways I’d imagine.
Basically, yes. Everyone will remember how he “turned down the stimulus money!”, making him (more) famous. And then the stimulus money will go through, but people won’t remember that part.
But stopping the unemployment benefits extension? That’s just plain mean.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Skeptic Says
Ethnic homeland being…. Detroit? Georgia?
Apparently you are both ignorant and stupid as well as a racist.
There has developed an entire industry in the USofA which uses DNA to identify American Blacks’ ethnic origins (would you prefer tribal?) and arranges “homecoming” visits to the relevant African locales. Indeed many American Blacks have already applied for dual nationality based on genetic affiliation and more do so each year.
I believe that Oprah has done several programs on it not to mention the PBS series
So try again fool.
And yet and yet you are still unable to defend your statement that the civilized nations of Black Africa have better schools and social safety nets than America.
Or are we to understand from your incoherence that you don’t believe that there are any civilized nations in Black Africa?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:41 pm
The hypocrisy of these governors is beyond belief.
Louisiana is one of the welfare queens of America. They rank 49th in federal taxes paid per resident, yet rank 12th in federal spending per resident!
From 1995-2005 they took home a whooping $88,223,000,000 more in federal spending than they paid in federal taxes. If Jindal really had the balls he would demand that his state give back the extra $19,065,000,000 they will take in this year!
February 21st, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Most of the people driven out of the state will be Dems, so you can see why this appeals to Jindal. It’s the same reason the Feds dragged their feet in rebuilding New Orleans – Rove wanted to break up and disperse a largely Democratic population.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Myles Says:
Well, any temporary increase in welfare is a bit of a slippery slope, because once welfare is increased, it’s hard to reduce, even if it is only meant to be temporary.
Aha! Another has discerned the true purposes of the ObaStimulator!
February 21st, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Re Don Williams
Mr. Williams should get off his ass and go out and buy a digital TV set.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:18 pm
JT, I sense that my laughing at your moronic post has upset you in some way. Have I pissed in your cornflakes? Sorry about that. Are you the official racist on this list? Did you feel that your title was being threatened? No offense.
There has developed an entire industry in the USofA which uses DNA to identify American Blacks’ ethnic origins (would you prefer tribal?) and arranges “homecoming” visits to the relevant African locales. Indeed many American Blacks have already applied for dual nationality based on genetic affiliation and more do so each year.
First up, we *all* come from Africa, buddy boy. Some of us had more indirect routes. But every human alive originates from the AFrican continent.
Second, DNA studies indicate that 90% of American blacks have white ancestors somewhere in the family tree, and that 30% of American whites have a recent black ancestor somewhere in the last eight generations. So kiss me, I’m Irish!
And yet and yet you are still unable to defend your statement that the civilized nations of Black Africa have better schools and social safety nets than America.
Well, I’d defend it if I made it. But what I was referring to was civilized nations: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, etc.
Or are we to understand from your incoherence that you don’t believe that there are any civilized nations in Black Africa?
Well, I don’t think its questionable that there are no nations currently in Africa which are members of the ‘first world’ or ‘developed’ nations, as these terms are generally understood.
What’s your point? That as long as American whites aren’t actually committing Rwanda style genocide, that American blacks have it easy? Or are you arguing that American blacks oppression is well deserved because otherwise they’d turn the place into Africa?
Ah shucks, I don’t care what you’re arguing. I’m not sure you know.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I’m intrigued that Myles thinks of ‘Unemployment Insurance’ as welfare.
Is Car Insurance welfare? How about home insurance? Liability insurance? Malpractice insurance?
If I am paying premiums to guard against risk, and that risk occurs, damned right I want my money, and no, it ain’t welfare.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:27 pm
“My other thought is that there may be a “beggar thy neighbor” strategy going on here. If Louisiana makes its unemployment benefits less generous than what’s available in other states”
Is that why Governor Jindal just announced he was going to raise Louisiana’s unemployment benefits by $25 per week?
Incidentally, Louisiana’s unemployment insurance trust fund appears to be better funded than those of some much more populous blue states, which happen to have higher unemployment rates as well.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Oh yeah, I can’t turn around without bumping into a black American who wants to obtain African citizenship. Them and all the Canadians sneaking into the US because its health care system is so much better.
Whoa, good one! That will teach him not to say something he never said!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I’m sure Myles think unemployment insurance is some onerous obligation put upon his employer by the nanny-state and not part of his compensation.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Or are we to understand from your incoherence that you don’t believe that there are any civilized nations in Black Africa?
Whoa, good one! That will teach him not to say something he never said!
I consider myself well and truly taught!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
“Louisiana is one of the welfare queens of America. They rank 49th in federal taxes paid per resident, yet rank 12th in federal spending per resident!”
That’s because the state has such a large black population, and blacks are the welfare queens of America. They pay less in taxes and receive more in federal spending (welfare, WIC, EITC) than any other group. And they almost all vote Democrat.
“It’s the same reason the Feds dragged their feet in rebuilding New Orleans – Rove wanted to break up and disperse a largely Democratic population.”
Right, by importing Hispanics to rebuild the place, since everyone knows Hispanics are reliable republican voters. If the blacks were willing to rebuild their own city, instead of living off the tens of billions of dollars in federal guilt money Bush flooded Louisiana with, that would even have been an issue.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Jindall’s motivation could be as pure as the baby Jesus. With him thinking that the unemployment money would hurt his citizens in the short and long term. For whatever tortured reasons, but reasons in his mind pure and good. Or his motivation could be purely evil. So he could go out on the campaign trail and boast how stopped handouts to niggers, using whatever euphemisms he cares to employ.
I think this will severely damage his electability going forward but it will insure him a lifetime of friends and employment in the conservative universe. He is never going to need any stinking unemployment. Think of this as the Bobby Jindall lifetime Employment Act.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
ROTFL. Accept no substitutes folks.
That’s because the state has such a large black population, and blacks are the welfare queens of America. They pay less in taxes and receive more in federal spending (welfare, WIC, EITC) than any other group. And they almost all vote Democrat.
Well, its true that the unemployment rate for blacks is more than twice the national average. It’s also true that blacks are systematically denied education and job opportunities, that schools in black areas are systematically underfunded, and the blacks are often the last hired, first fired, and often streamed into service industries which are particularly vulnerable to economic trouble. It’s also true that in addition to all that, black males are disproportionately arrested and imprisoned and imprisoned for longer periods, for the same or less violent offenses than whites… with the result that the American penal system is literally waging war on black families. Blacks are disproportionately represented in the American underclasses.
However, they do almost universally vote Democrat, mostly because Republicans are such a crew of racist douchebags.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:58 pm
“It’s also true that blacks are systematically denied education and job opportunities”
This must be in Bizarro World. In our world, schools bend over backwards to let in underqualified black students, and happily through money at them.
“that schools in black areas are systematically underfunded”
More Bizarro World. Black school districts like D.C.’s are among the most generously funded in the country.
“It’s also true that in addition to all that, black males are disproportionately arrested and imprisoned and imprisoned for longer periods, for the same or less violent offenses than whites”
That may have something to do with blacks committing crimes at seven times the white rate. Which by the way makes blacks even more of a welfare case liability for this country, considering how much we have to spend on imprisoning so many of them.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:01 pm
“However, they do almost universally vote Democrat, mostly because Republicans are such a crew of racist douchebags.”
That’s why a black guy runs the party? Blacks vote Democrat for the same reason other welfare queens vote Democrat — Democrats offer more money for welfare queens. Blacks voted Democrat even when every racist redneck in the South was voting Democrat. They didn’t care that the GOP ended slavery; the voted Democrat for the welfare that FDR doled out. They still do, for the same reason.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Obama just has to rename the Stimulus welfare program –call it a “defense contract” . Then every Southern politican will be on it like ticks on a coon dog.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:21 pm
There’s a protocol to these things in the South. If you claim it’s for “national defense” -even though it isn’t — then it ain’t a handout. That’s written in the Bible somewhere.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
“This must be in Bizarro World. In our world, schools bend over backwards to let in underqualified black students, and happily through money at them.”
That’s a lie! Everyone knows that the education industry is full of racist reactionaries doing everything they can to hold back naturally smart blacks.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Ah, the unreconstructed racist in his full glory. Railing way at FDR. How charming.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Ah, the “racist” charge. The white flag that goes up when a lefty knows he has been defeated and can no longer refute the facts.
For the record, I didn’t “rail” against FDR. Just stated a fact. What he did was smart politics. It would be too expensive to trump that today though. Back then most blacks really were dirt poor, and a little government money went a long way in boosting their circumstances. Today, they’ve already got heavily subsidized housing (many pay less than $100 per month in rent in projects) free health care (Medicaid), welfare, WIC, etc. It’s tough (and expensive) to top all of that.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Skeptic
Facts:
The non-partisian (actually right-leaning) Tax Foundation compiles the #’s and has figured out rankings for the states.
Based on The Tax Foundations #’s that would leave us going NJ, NV, CT, NH, MN, IL, DE, CA, NY, CO, MA, WI, WA, MI, OR, TX, FL, RI … notice a little trend in those states that received less federal $ per $ in federal taxes???
Who did 17 of the 18 vote for President – Obama?
19 of the 25 “worst” states (States receiving more than $1.10 in Federal spending per $1.00 in Federal Taxes paid), who did 19 of those 25 vote for? … McCain!!!!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
JimboSlice,
You have done nothing to refute my point about blacks being America’s welfare queens. It’s true that in some states the high-earning (and high tax-paying) non-black population outweighs the dead weight loss of the black population, but that’s not the case in Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. All that shows is that if you don’t have enough rich whites and corporations to offset your population of black welfare queens, your state will be a big welfare queen.
Face the facts. Blacks, the Democrats most loyal voters, are America’s biggest welfare queens. You know it’s true, just accept it.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
A majority of blacks voted Republican until 1960, when JFK ran on a civil rights platform. In the South (at least, those places blacks were allowed to vote), they voted overwhelmingly Republican. Every black Congressman before the civil rights era was Republican.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:44 pm
If you look at the charts of persistent rural poverty (counties with more than 20 percent of households below poverty income level for several decades ), I think you’ll see that the white trash in McCain’s Red States are getting more than their fair share of the welfare rice bowl. That includes almost half the counties of Kentucky, Mitch McConnell’s laissez faire paradise.
See http://www.ers.usda.gov/emphases/rural/gallery/PersistentPoverty.htm
If you took away the highly inflated and unjustifed defense contracts, the South would be even more of a hopeless shithole. Especially since Home Depot and Georgia Pacific won’t be selling too much pine timber to the “housing Industry” anymore. Any guess as to whose campaign donations was influencing Bush into pumping the air into the housing bubble?
February 21st, 2009 at 9:47 pm
If you look at the above chart, you’ll see that Sarah Palin’s state of Alaska ain’t no stranger to welfare checks either — even with all those royalty checks from the PUBLICLY owned oil deposits. (When do those of us in the lower 48 get our share?)
And when it comes to unmarried teenage girls getting knocked up, well, what can I say?
February 21st, 2009 at 11:32 pm
*blink blink*
Was there some kind of Skeptic-on-faux-Skeptic action occurring here?
February 21st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
…are America’s biggest welfare queens.
Oh. I don’t think that many agribusiness CEOs are black, actually. Not that many bank CEOs, either, at least not proportionally. Shouldn’t you should look up your statistics before you cite them?
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:14 am
That’s for sure! States that pay more in taxes than they get back–New York, Michigan, California–definitely don’t have any black people!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 am
Assuming you’re for real, do you actually understand how those programs work? Do you think giving poor mothers free fruit juice and cheese boosts them into the lap of luxury? Do you think that $100/month housing project comes equipped with a hot tub and plasma TV, and sits in a four-star neighborhood?
Yeah, and who are the victims of those crimes? Black people.
We HAVE to lock up someone for being caught with a bag of marijuana. There’s no choice. It’s like the law of gravity.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:28 am
“Not that many bank CEOs, either, at least not proportionally.”
Stan O’Neil, CEO of Merrill Lynch. Don Parsons, Chairman-designate of Citigroup (and a long time director).
Look, all of you are dancing past the facts. Are there poor whites on this country on Welfare? Sure. But there are as many blacks on welfare as whites, and blacks are only 12% of the population.
Blacks are the biggest welfare queen ethnic group in this country by far. The are a net drain on this country’s finances (as they are in pretty much every other multiracial country). These are facts, and bigotry against poor rural whites won’t change those facts any.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 am
If only blacks would learn to get a job and not just do work.
I mean honestly, blacks need to get involved with a small business, the real heart of America’s economic growth – not this stupid work that the government stimulus program creates, leave that work for the white people to waste their time working on.
No, what these black folks need is a job, and not once in the history of the world has a government ever created a single job, heck look what government did to my sister. I was just trying to stimulate her small business, create a job for her by having her provide “catering services” but the government laws had to come along and turn that job into work. It was work to forge those receipts. It was work to con people into donating to my campaign. It is work for the lawyers to defend me against the FBI investigations, and its only work for those FBI investigators.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 am
I’m a lot like Joe Biden, when you think of it. We’re both hack pols who have funneled campaign work to relatives.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 am
But then again Joe Biden actually won his Senate elections. I was too busy trying to figure out how to turn it into a job for my sister that I forgot government could only make work.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 am
Um, where’d all the racists come from? It’s not like I didn’t know about big, dumb, retarded racists and the big, dumb racist things they say — but don’t you fellas need to pull three or four pick-ups ’round the 7-11 parking lot right about now? You’re trolling ThinkProgress? Really?
I mean, don’t get me wrong. I assume you’ve done something useful in your life, or else you couldn’t afford a computer. Or at least you can follow directions to a public library, or something. So your boss may be happy with your performance, even, and maybe today you even managed not to smell like piss. But, sorry, you’re still a retarded racist, so nobody’s taking you seriously.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 am
“Um, where’d all the racists come from? You’re trolling ThinkProgress? Really?”
Yeah, it’s weird. I wonder if they’re the same guys, or, guy, who troll feminist blogs with their sexist and usually, sexual, posts. They sound a lot alike. But then, all cons sound the same to me, pretty much. So maybe there is more than one of these dopes.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
Re: Well, any temporary increase in welfare is a bit of a slippery slope, because once welfare is increased, it’s hard to reduce, even if it is only meant to be temporary.
Extending unemployment is normal in any recession, and the extension is then cancelled when the economy improves.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
“Um, where’d all the racists come from? You’re trolling ThinkProgress? Really?”
Economic contractions do not necessarily imply a popular move to the economic or social left, obviously, and I shouldn’t need to supply some historical examples. Bobby Jindal could profit from his madness.
I would contend that attempting to counter dark populism directly is counterproductive, like atheists attacking religion. Neither will Obama’s attempts to cuddle(”Comity! Non-partisanship!”) with the resurgent racists and anti-semites (which will pretty soon become the entirety of the Republican Party) do us any good. I doubt Obama has a clue of what’s ahead.
We need to provide the troglodytes with a substitute target for the hate. They can be useful. The only just war is class war.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
Hey kids, Barbara Bush [#2] gave you some bum advice about moving from the state where you were collecting and continuing to receive bennies in your new state. Many states ban that outright as not being “able and available” in the local market where you lost your job in the first place. In others, you are going to have to really really make your case for continuation. Chances of this actually happening are about 50:1.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
I would hardly call paying thousands of dollars to a company that no longer exists “campaign work”.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
I’m pretty amused.
Yes, the entire stimulus package is just welfare for lazy shiftless blacks. They sure do have it easy. Right, whatever.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm
That’s because the state is a red state, and red states are the welfare queens of America. They pay less in taxes and receive more in federal spending (welfare, WIC, EITC) than any other group of states. And they almost all vote Republican.
There, fixed that for you.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
“Yes, the entire stimulus package is just welfare for lazy shiftless blacks. They sure do have it easy. Right, whatever.”
^Hey look, another straw man argument by me, tee-hee! I spout ignorant bigotry about white people being welfare queens, but when someone points out that fact that blacks are much bigger welfare queens and fiscal drains I can’t argue on the facts so I resort to this kind of thing.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Shoot us both, Spock!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Hi Everyone, I’m the racist douchebag who pretends to be Skeptic. I’m HIV positive because I drank monkey blood, who knew? Anyway, I hope that my example will be a positive role model for everyone here. Remember, we don’t need a reason to hate blacks, but it helps to make something up. Also, don’t drink monkey blood, not even at a party. Goodbye and god bless.
February 24th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Ah …
Bobby Jindal. Sarah Palin. Steele as RNC Chair. The Republicans are trying the old wolf in sheeps clothing trick. These are the folks who look different than your average garden variety GOP politician. But folks, it’s the same play book being run and America is pretty tired of it. They were right about that lipstick on the pig remark. In the end. It’s still a pig. Same thing here. In the end, the GOP is that same broke party that wants to lead the country into war and tax the poorer folks while giving breaks to the rich. The same folks that say they are fiscally conservative…(uh lie), and then run the country into bankruptcy. Bobby Jindal can try in 2012. Palin as well. Prediction. 60-40 Dems in 2012. 2010 Might be a bad year too. The GOP is fading.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:57 am
This governor is an idiot. It’s not supposed to be all about what he wants. If the legislature has any balls they would ditch him and get someone in who thinks about the welfare of all its citizens. I’m tired of hearing about all the welfare the poor are getting, what about corporate welfare and tax evasion. People of Louisiana, recall the Jindal
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