Tayo-D:

@David and Negro,

California is in the shit it is today because of the free-for-all spending mentality. The State clearly shows you what happens when liberal spending goes on rampage.

Arnold is a republican. duh

Tayo-D:

He recently declared he will be refusing some of the money that Obama is giving to the States declaring that it will create a burden for the States on the long run. many people criticised him for such a move and sme even called it racism. Now, other Republican govenors are toeing this same path and a Democratic governor has expressed Jindal's same setiments. I really think this Jindal guy is a star to be watched!

Louisiana's share of the stimulus - $3.9b
Jindal is refusing - $100m

Percentage of stimulus refused - 0.03%
Percentage of stimulus accepted - 99.97%

Yeah he's a star not a hypocrite.

lmao is 100m even a dent in 3.9b?

I thought Louisiana is still under Federal Disaster Aid.  If that's true then you have an exception in Louisiana.  Under Federal Aid, depending on the extent, job loss is covered, capital loss is covered, business loss is covered. . .so in a way they have been under stimulus for a while.  Jindall is not facing a test as challenging as Arnold. 

Exactly. They've been getting money before this anyway so this "rejection" means nothing.

@davidylan,

Arnold is a republican. duh

I said liberal spending, not democrat spending!  Double duh on you.  Conservatism and liberalism are not limited to Party affiliations.

Louisiana's share of the stimulus - $3.9b
Jindal is refusing - $100m
Percentage of stimulus refused - 0.03%
Percentage of stimulus accepted - 99.97%

Who is doing your mathematics for you.  That is almost 2.6% assuming your figures are correct!

Yeah he's a star not a hypocrite.

It's all about common sense.  Why accept a gift that will be burdensome on you in the near future! This is the foresight that many are lacking!

Tayo-D:

@davidylan,
I said liberal spending, not democratic spending! Double duh on you. Conservaism and liberalism are not limited toParty affiliations.

how has conservatism helped Mississipi?

Tayo-D:

Who is doing your mathematics for you. That is almost 2.6% assuming your figures are correct!

Figures correct. yeah its 2.6%. not 0.03% as earlier mentioned.

Tayo-D:

It's all about common sense. Why accept a gift that will be burdensome on you in the near future! This is the foresight that many are lacking!

It wont burden them, they already know that their state legislations can reverse the increase in unemployment benefits when the stimulus money runs out.

@davidylan,

It wont burden them, they already know that their state legislations can reverse the increase in unemployment benefits when the stimulus money runs out.

That is not true. The stimulus requires a permanent change to their law. How will they sustain that on the long run? Raise taxes and further put a burden on the private sector?

Tayo-D:

@davidylan,
That is not true. The stimulus requires a permanent change to their law. How will they sustain that on the long run? Raise taxes and further put a burden on the private sector?

That is the lie Jindal and co have used to hoodwink you. It is not true.

It's all about the mid-term election in 2010. Republicans are trying to lock Dems out of popularity in home base and Dems are trying to spread their influence through the grassroot network.

If pork allocations are fattened (and I suspect they will be through government lobbied contracting) while individual citizens continue to loose values of their personal worth, then there will be a moment of reflection and people come to grip with reality and dump rhetoric for can-do-politicians.

On the forecast for employment, there is a new angle. The President is bringing home thousands of US military from Iraq within the next 16months. It's going to be a surge in the unemployment market when they return and most of them leave service. Just so we should be alert, an Iraqi war veteran has priority for employment, which means that the more attritions we have from returning service men and women, then the longer ordinary citizens will stay unemployed.

Another factor, . . .infrastructures. . .I keep hearing the talk about construction as if everyone has that skill. First, the unskilled laborers that pour the concrete will more than likely be mexicans. The skilled positions will require licence and some trade or technical certifications. Well, people are going back to school to get MBA and Professional certifications, not learning how to pour concrete or grade a work site. The biggest recovery will be in private sector - services and professional occupations. Which means loans to upstart business or revitalize existing ones. Part of the recovery bill should have focused and invested more on cooperative banks, credit unions and small business assistance programs.

Karma will yell at me again but i just gotta wonder whether you simply love to string meaningless words together with no regard for passing a message.

Negro_Ntns:

It's all about the mid-term election in 2010. Republicans are trying to lock Dems out of popularity in home base and Dems are trying to spread their influence through the grassroot network.

True and about the only thing i understood from the entire post.

Tayo-D:

If pork allocations are fattened (and I suspect they will be through government lobbied contracting) while individual citizens continue to loose values of their personal worth, then there will be a moment of reflection and people come to grip with reality and dump rhetoric for can-do-politicians.

Just exactly what is pork? Can someone point to one? The republican cry of Pelosi's mouse and the train to disneyland or the billions to ACORN turned out to be false. What exactly is your point here?

Tayo-D:

On the forecast for employment, there is a new angle. The President is bringing home thousands of US military from Iraq within the next 16months. It's going to be a surge in the unemployment market when they return and most of them leave service. Just so we should be alert, an Iraqi war veteran has priority for employment, which means that the more attritions we have from returning service men and women, then the longer ordinary citizens will stay unemployed.

you're forgetting that a whole lot of those are moving straight to Afghanistan.

But again pls look at the portion i highlighted . . . what does it mean? There are less than 100,000 returning from the Iraq war most of whom wont come back until summer next yr so you expect unemployment to remain the same or worsen till then?

Tayo-D:

Another factor, . . .infrastructures. . .I keep hearing the talk about construction as if everyone has that skill. First, the unskilled laborers that pour the concrete will more than likely be mexicans. The skilled positions will require licence and some trade or technical certifications. Well, people are going back to school to get MBA and Professional certifications, not learning how to pour concrete or grade a work site. The biggest recovery will be in private sector - services and professional occupations. Which means loans to upstart business or revitalize existing ones. Part of the recovery bill should have focused and invested more on cooperative banks, credit unions and small business assistance programs.

One of the big problems in this recession was the freeze on the credit market, where would these loans you suggest come from if the government did not try to jumpstart both the lending sector and the broader economy? Do you people do anything other than repeat talking points?

Karma will yell at me again but i just gotta wonder whether you simply love to string meaningless words together with no regard for passing a message.

Lol, she doesn't yell at you when you see posts that have no meaning to you and you pass them by, does she? Why must you respond to my post if the message is unclear to you? I truly can't understand why that has to be a lesson. I am not here to teach. We all come here to interact, responsibly. When I run into posts I am not clear on I do one of two things; 1, ask for clarity; 2, pass by.

you're forgetting that a whole lot of those are moving straight to Afghanistan.

But again pls look at the portion i highlighted . . . what does it mean? There are less than 100,000 returning from the Iraq war most of whom wont come back until summer next yr so you expect unemployment to remain the same or worsen till then?

There, you know what to do afterall! Rather than answer I am going to choose a pass by.

One of the big problems in this recession was the freeze on the credit market, where would these loans you suggest come from if the government did not try to jumpstart both the lending sector and the broader economy? Do you people do anything other than repeat talking points?

Lol, Let me play your card. Who is "you people"? I don't understand your statement, you are not connecting. What exactly do you mean?

California is in the shit it is today because of the free-for-all spending mentality. The State clearly shows you what happens when liberal spending  goes on rampage.

Arnold is a conservative republican.  Where did you get this liberal spending idea from or is this another Bill O'Reilly blame the left rhetoric? Are you trying to say lawmakers in Sacramento are liberal?

^{Louisiana's share of the stimulus - $3.9b
Jindal is refusing - $100m}

By the way,  he got $97 million in earmarks in FY 2008.  He ranked 14th of the 435 in supporting the highest earmarks at a cost of $97,913,200 for Fiscal Year 2008, according to the Taxpayers for Common Sense.
He is number 14 spot in Taxpayers for Common Sense's annual tally of the most successful appropriators in the House.

He got $97  in earmarks and is rejecting $100 million. This is shear hypocrisy. He has accepted money for tax cuts and state projects but not for unemployment benefits. He besieged   Feds for money in order to rebuild his state after Katrina. I am trying to see the difference between folks who lost jobs during Katrina and Wall Street induced "Katrina"

Why didnt he tell Louisianans that they  could " do anything" during Katrina instead  of relying on Feds for help?  Let the policies we wish for start with us.

The Gov. of South Carolina has one of the poorest states in the US and richer states like Vermont and Florida are saying give me the money.  Oh! by the way, the young woman who was referenced in Obama's  speech  asking   the Congress to come to the aid of her school comes from a school district suing  the Gov for under funding of their schools. 8 school districts joined in the suit against state of South Carolina for under funding education.

One of the arguments against taking money to expand the unemployment insurance benefit is due to the welfare mentality. I mean, there are genuine needs but then you are bound to also see a whole lot of people abuse the subsidies and refuse to work or even search for gainful employment as long as they keep getting the unemployment benefits. Back in Clinton era, he reduced the benefits and created incentives in work programms to get people off welfare. At the moment there is no work incentive but care has to be taken also that government does not become a surrogate mother to people looking to sit idle for the next ten years; leaches that do nothing but watch Jerry Springer and soaps and play games on internet all day long, then stay up all night drinking alcohol.

The repugs are complaining about earmarks again - about $940,000 earmarked to sustain wild blueberry research which supports a $250m economy in Maine and accounts for over 2000 jobs alone.

Size of the earmark in relation to omnibus bill? - 0.00023%

@post,

I am hearing that Jindall embellished the Sherriff Lee rescue story. Is this true?