Mercedes Schneider writes here about Bobby Jindal’s reckless stewardship of higher education in Louisiana. In addition to cutting funding and shifting the costs to students and families, he made promises that the state could not afford to keep. Jindal left behind a mountain of deficits and broken promises. Yet now he is under consideration for the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services. In a future post, if Jindal continues to be a contender, Mercedes should detail Jindal’s inhumane budget cuts to hospitals and health clinics for the poor.
She helpfully reminds the Trump transition team of the insults that Jindal heaped on Trump at a press conference where he described Trump, as reported in The National Review:
“Narcissist,” “egomaniac,” “absurd,” “a carnival act,” “insecure,” “weak,” “dangerous,” “unstable,” “unserious,” “shallow,” “hothead,” “small,” “substance-free,” “power-hungry shark,” “egomaniacal madman”: Those were just a few of the names Jindal called Trump in his 10 minute speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. today.
I want to say what everyone is thinking about Donald Trump but afraid to say,” Jindal said. “Everybody knows this is true.”
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Jindal: so right about Trump; so wrong about education.
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Again, a couple of nasty, self-absorbed people who richly deserve each other.
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Why not? The rest of the country is seemingly striving to become the heaven on Earth that Louisiana has proven to be over and over again (that’s sarcasm for those of you who might miss it).
Here’s a letter I wrote that was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2013:
“While growing up in Louisiana, we would joke, ‘Thank goodness for Mississippi because at least there is one state with lower standards than ours.’ Mississippians told a variation of the same joke, thanking goodness for Louisiana.
“Under the newly approved budget, Gov. Kasich and the Ohio Legislature have started to shift the state’s tax burden toward poor Ohioans and continued to reward political supporters with public funds. Combined with their attacks on public education, unions, and women’s health, pretty soon the people of Louisiana and Mississippi will be thanking goodness for Ohio.”
Pretty soon, Chile may be thanking goodness for the U.S.
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Bobby Jindal also privatized the hospitals leaving the most vulnerable without care nearby. He refused to expand Medicaid. He would be a Disaster in any position.
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After Jindal refused to expand Medicaid, privatized, & closed many clinics, I heard a conversation between a nurse & a policeman at a restaurant in New Orleans. The nurse said to the policeman, “Well, you’re going to be seeing a lot of my former patients, because they’re going to be out in the streets w/o their medication.”
In fact, I was just in New Orleans. Everyone I talked to there said they thought he should have been impeached.
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