Well, here's an idea from North Carolina: we can do the same thing for goods YOU need.
And if you insist on "blackmailing" the rest of us to rebuild your state, I'll lobby MY senators and congress people to vote against all the other money you want from the federal government.
See how that works?
Let them try.
They had better remember all those sugar subsidies Landrieu screwed the "American People" over with, just to get re-elected. It's not as if any of those damn politicians had Louisiana's best interest in mind in the first place. What makes them think they do now?!
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We can start here.
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Sen. Landrieu, like many Louisiana politicians, opposes a recent move to phase out import quotas on sugar.
Landrieu's efforts to "protect" sugar
American farmers no longer can earn sufficient profit from sugar. But rather than switch to more profitable crops, these farmers lobby Congress to restrict imports from foreign countries or levy tariffs to make foreign sugar uneconomical. As a result, they prolong their precarious positions, and Americans pay two to three times what the rest of the world pays for sugar.
Louisiana sugar producers have been protected by tariffs almost continuously since 1816. Import quotas on sugar have existed since 1934, except for one eight-year break that ended when President Reagan re-established them in 1982.
Sen. Landrieu -- and almost every other Louisiana politician -- opposes the Central American Free Trade Agreement, a plan that would double import quotas for sugar but take 15 more years to do it.
Well, here's an idea from North Carolina: we can do the same thing for goods YOU need.
"And if you insist on "blackmailing" the rest of us to rebuild your state, I'll lobby MY senators and congress people to vote against all the other money you want from the federal government.
See how that works?"
We won't need any money from the Federal government if we are able to push through the tax on the Major Corporations using pipelines across the State of Lousiana to pass their oil and gas to the rest of the Country. We will have all we need and then some.
What's interesting is this pervasive attitude here on Free Republic that says over and over ad nauseum: "let Lousiana fix their own damned problems, I'm tired of my hard-earned tax money going to fix their problems." Okay fine! So Louisiana is pushing to find a viable solution and everyone here wants to bitch about that too.
I'm curious to know what wonderful Natural Resource you State contributes to Louisiana or the rest of the Country which would, if withheld, put us to our knees? Turnips? Trees? Do tell!