If any one thinks Mark Ballard's opinion column published in the New Orleans Advocate of 1/5/20 concerning tort reform and auto insurance rates sounds familiar, its because you read it here first in PolitiDose commentary a week or so ago. And if more people realize the "fake news" tort reform story of Louisiana's republicans and start to speak out, such so called "tort reform" will be dead on arrival in the state legislature.
Mr. Ballard points out the obvious reasons why the Insurance Industry themselves do not think tort reform will in fact lower automobile insurance rates. Louisiana's republican party in the state legislature have little to no credibility on just about everything they touch. Beside tort reform, their latest 'fake news" is to withhold from the Governor, the estimated revenue numbers projected for the state's fiscal year that begins July 1. They want that information withheld from the Governor for their own selfish reasons and try to sabotage the Governor's fiscal budget plans.
When one thinks about the do nothing republicans in the U.S. Congress and in the Louisiana state legislature it is a party that opposes everything and at the same time can not articulate any democratic values they have or accept. They are truly the party of an extreme ideology that lie about everything, even to their own base, because like their leader President Trump, they have no respect for anyone.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Sunday, January 5, 2020
More American Troops To The Middle East Is A Foreign Policy Failure
President Trump's foreign policy failures continue to pile up in the Middle East that now require more American troops be put in harms way. The idea was to reduce America's troop presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, end those wars and let those two countries defend themselves with all the training they received from American troops who stayed behind for that purpose.
But the President undermined all that by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement rejecting our allies sound advise, refusing to believe Iran was in compliance and instituted sanctions against Iran that has once again destabilized the region. Iran now has a larger role in Iraq than ever before and a larger say so in that government.
A successful foreign policy would not require more Americans to be deployed to the Middle East. President Obama's decision to remove all of America's combat troops from Iraq and leave behind only those troops necessary to continue the training of Iraq troops was the right decision. Any draw down of American troops now in Iraq will be speculative at best and could involve more combat operations for those troops in Iraq then they experienced since the draw down.
A reckless foreign policy is not in the best interest of America and certainly not in the best interest of our troops who give and sacrifice so much for their country.
This commentary was written by Joe Lorio
But the President undermined all that by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement rejecting our allies sound advise, refusing to believe Iran was in compliance and instituted sanctions against Iran that has once again destabilized the region. Iran now has a larger role in Iraq than ever before and a larger say so in that government.
A successful foreign policy would not require more Americans to be deployed to the Middle East. President Obama's decision to remove all of America's combat troops from Iraq and leave behind only those troops necessary to continue the training of Iraq troops was the right decision. Any draw down of American troops now in Iraq will be speculative at best and could involve more combat operations for those troops in Iraq then they experienced since the draw down.
A reckless foreign policy is not in the best interest of America and certainly not in the best interest of our troops who give and sacrifice so much for their country.
This commentary was written by Joe Lorio
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