Renita Young in a Times Picayune article dated 3/19/14 reported the unemployment rate in Louisiana for January was 4.9%. The lowest it has been since September 2008. That was good news for Louisiana and its people. The national unemployment rate for January was 6.6%. Lets look at some facts between the two numbers.
In January 2008 when Jindal took office the Louisiana unemployment rate was 3.8%. In the six years he has been governor unemployment in Louisiana has increased 1.1% When Obama took office in January of 2009 the national unemployment rate was 7.8% and in January of 2014 it was 6.6%. In Obama's first five years in office the national unemployment rate decreased 1.2%.
Despite the bad mouth Jindal has put on the President, Obama has done a better job controlling the national unemployment than Jindal has done controlling state unemployment. We also know that the federal budget deficit has been coming down on Obama's watch and that just the opposite happened on the previous President's watch while Jindal served in congress. In previous commentary this writer explained how Jindal has never really balanced one state budget since he was elected governor.
When a governor can not be positive in his comments, he is not a serious public servant.
Thie commentary written by John Lucia.
