Readers of "PolitiDose" know that Jindal and the republican controlled state legislature has yet to balance one state budget since Jindal took office. They say its balanced with cuts and other revenues but 5 or 6 months before the budget year ends Jindal announces the budget is out of balance by millions of dollars.
And true to form the same thing is happening to this years budget that ends June 30, 2015. In a November 22 article in the Times Picyune the state is facing a mid year budget deficit of $180 million that Jindal plans to close using one time state revenue and cuts. Five million of revenue will come from the TOPS scholarship program the article reported. And on a more serious note the legislators were told that next years budget beginning July 1will face a wopping $1.4 billing short fall.
Jindal is no conservative when it comes to the state's fiscal matters and has put off year after year the hard choices necessary to put the states fiscal house in order. His actions fiscally is a mirror image of the national republican party that has not balanced a federal budget since President Eisenhower in 1960. When Jindal's term expires he will leave the next governor and the people a fiscal disaster to clean up. Much like President George W. Bush left Obama and the country.
Jindal and his party's leaders are not really conservatives, although they have sold that bill of goods. They are right wing radicals who preach an unAmerican ideology. Because of precedent, this writer has been able to predict once again that this years budget would be out of balance long before the fiscal year ends in June 30, 2015. And you read it here first in "PolitiDose" your daily dose of political commentary.
This commentrary written by John Lucia.
