Posted on 08/18/2019 3:56:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
One technique they’ve used successfully here is to dampen economic development by private industry, while growing government. Since the late 60s, the only growth industry has been higher education.
Meanwhile, NOLA’s white collar oil jobs migrated to Houston, where they were welcomed. One Shell Square is now full of lawyers instead of engineers.
One the deadheads retire, they stay here. Government retireds don’t pay state income tax on their pension income.
“The teacher’s union has plenty of power. Legislators are scared spitless of them. They put Bel Edwards in office.”
You must not live in Louisiana.
Louisiana teacher earn the smallest salaries in the nation and the first measly $1,000 pay raise in eight years and teacher unions have all the power?
Jindal and the legislature passed laws that sunk their teeth into the teachers necks. The legislature raided the teacher’s retirement fund, so it is now grossly underfunded. They have no fear of teachers unions.
Unions in general have no power in Louisiana, a right to work state.
Edwards won because the voter turn out was about thirty percent.
He will not win a second term.
I am amazed that people confuse teacher unions with the Leftist teacher bureaucracy, which reigns supreme in all fifty states.
Lived here all my life, and have been active in politics for 40 years. My family goes back seven (7) generations here.
The teacher’s union and the leftist teacher bureaucracy are one and the same.
The reason the TRSL (Teacher Retirement System of Louisiana) is underfunded is the same reason all public employee systems are underfunded. Insufficient employee contributions, overly optimistic annual return projections, and basing retirement pay on the highest three years of salary.
“The reason the TRSL (Teacher Retirement System of Louisiana) is underfunded is the same reason all public employee systems are underfunded. Insufficient employee contributions...”
Some of that may be true, but the hit on the fund came by the politicians raiding the fund. Look it up.
You also must not be aware of the communist Frankfurt School and how it took over education in the United States.
And when you finish looking that up, google and read the Humanist Manifesto (in conjunction with the Frankfurt School) whose main goal was/is to rid Christianity from the public schools.
These people have much bigger fish to fry than teachers unions.
When Obama left in 2016, Arkansas had
Repub governor
2 Repub US Senators
4 Repub US House Reps
Repub controlled state House and Senate and most state offices
Missouri is going through a similar transition based on recent elections.
I, too, am a life long resident of Louisiana and would not live anywhere else.
Jindal was despised by many, one my cousin who is a state retiree hated him because of something he did with their health care, so he voted for the democrat.
Vitter was too tarnished, although I did vote for him.
When I see an ad for Rispone, right after it there is an ad for Abraham. Don’t know anything about either one of them. Shame on me I’m more into national politics instead of knowing much about Local politics. But I do not listen to local news channels which makes me not know much of what is going on in the state. Gotta pay more attention.
Jindal never “raided” the TRSL. He did propose to increase employee contributions and increase the retirement age to bring it in line with what non-government employees receive.
The deadhead state employees and teacher unions pitched a fit and got it killed in the legislature.
He also got enacted a 401K type plan for future employees, but the state Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
Once Jindal took a shot at the state employees and teachers and missed, his fate was sealed. He never got a minute’s rest from the newspapers and the bloodsucker class.
Much as I hate to say it, Bel Edwards will be re-elected. I just don’t see Ralph Abraham generating Trump-like intensity to drive enough voters to the polls in October.
I know lots of folks, many in my extended family who are the same way. Vitter was the most conservative politician ever elected in my lifetime. Many, many conservatives bought in to the enemy's assertion that Vitter was "flawed" because he allegedly once cheated on his wife.
Vitter is/was a saint compared to Trump. These same Louisiana conservatives will defend Trump to the death and say that stuff don't matter. It shows how effective was the media/democrat propaganda about Vitter.
Jindal tried to privatize the state’s Office of Group Benefits (OGB). It covers most public employees and retirees in the state, and it is gold-plated.
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_a2228db7-e16f-582a-920b-c2b08039b317.html
Gov. Bobby Jindal says Louisiana has no business running employee insurance program
“Jindal never “raided” the TRSL.”
I never said Jindal raided the TRSL. It has been happening long before him. I said that Jindal sunk his teeth into the teachers neck, ended tenure, which he could not have done if the unions were as powerful as you contend.
Edwards doesn’t stand a chance, and, yes, we have had large voter turnouts that predate Trump.
He didn’t completely end tenure, but Act 1 considerably weakened it.
https://www.houmatoday.com/news/20170924/how-louisiana-cut-number-of-tenured-teachers-in-half
How Louisiana cut number of tenured teachers in half
I sincerely hope that you are right, and I'm wrong about the outcome. As of now, though, I'm saying Edwards by 5% or more.
RINOs sabotaged David Vitter when he ran in 2015. He ought to be the Governor now instead of Edwards.
People are more willing to go against their usual party for Governor, it’s that simple.
That includes political people BTW. Right now there are traitor RINOs in KY that are backing the rat for Governor. Conversely many in the (White) rat establishment in MD essentially laid down for Hogan’s reelection and Baker in MA virtually got a complete pass.
The only problem is that these “Republicans” don’t tend to be ideologically far afield from the opposition majority. Baker is a moonbat (ditto Scott in VT), Hogan is a liberal RINO.
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