tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post8005953738585965298..comments2024-03-17T08:07:12.695-05:00Comments on Between The Lines: End, don't mend, both solar and film giveawaysJeff Sadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03972004592729833310noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post-46583453087400676322013-05-02T15:03:54.020-05:002013-05-02T15:03:54.020-05:00Of course, if we were really serious about fixing ...Of course, if we were really serious about fixing Louisiana's budgetary problems, we'd all be willing to start at our own doorsteps and take a hard look at some other state giveaways, such as those to political science departments in the LSU system that are staffed with tenured government flacks who use state time, money, and resources to pound out borderline-illiterate blog posts that advocate screwing the average private-citizen Louisianan who's actually trying to work for a living.<br /><br />Or, if we were really serious and honest about ending "giveaways", we could expand our focus beyond the usual political pinatas of solar and film tax credits and take an even harder look at the deals the state is giving the oil industry and the New Orleans Saints.<br /><br />But that would take courage, and a more impartial observer who was less interested in slavishly shining the shoes (among other things) of a part-time governor with national ambitions who for five years has cobbled together house-of-cards budgets out of spit, baling wire, one-time funds, and accounting tricks.<br /><br />So in the meantime, drink that Kool-Aid up, professor, and let's fix our state by screwing that "man behind the tree".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com