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re: LSU Folks - how did the $$$$$ situation at the University get so dire?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 6:27 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 7/22/19 at 6:27 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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idiots in charge
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Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:57 pm to NoNotMe
No Jindal is not to blame. Edwards is the governor and must take responsibly for the economic conditions. His first action as governor was to expand Medicaid costing the state millions then he proceeded to raise an already high state sales tax to 6 percent statewide. I take Jindal and lower taxes anyday. JBE is a terrible leader for the state of Louisiana, he is running political ads bosting about a 1000 per year teacher raise. That's about 15 per week after tax, what a joke.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 8:26 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Southern is the best baseball team in Baton Rouge
Posted on 7/22/19 at 8:30 pm to bopper50
Maybe. But this nothing new. The school referenced lack of funding as an impediment to on two occasions in years past. Once having to do with a coaching change. And once it had to do with the state not being able to help fund an improvement. Both times have been in the recent five year span and one discussion was triggered by the hire of the current head football which some supporters got heated up about. So it seems perpetual. Don't know what the current issue is. I do know this, even if a shortfall of funding was the rationale for the hiring of Orgeron it may have been a blessing in disguise since he appears to be doing great.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 8:34 pm to shoestring
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then he proceeded to raise an already high state sales tax to 6 percent statewide
Whoa!!!! 6%? Are you serious? And for such a blasphemous reason like healthcare? Omg!!! How horrible!!
Get bent. It’s 7% in Mississippi and in some areas it’s 8%.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 8:55 pm to SummerOfGeorge
So the athletic department is flush with cash, but the academic portion of the school is broke? Am I the only one that thinks this is backwards as hell. I mean third world country backwards. Are folks in Louisiana ok with how their limited resources are being spent?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:20 pm to ibldprplgld
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Louisiana State University System:
LSU
LSU-Alexandria
LSU-Shreveport
LSU-Eunice (2-year)
University of Louisiana System:
UL Lafayette
UL Monroe
La Tech
McNeese
Nicholls
Northwestern
Southeastern
University of New Orleans
Grambling
Southern University System:
Southern BR
Southern NO
Southern Shreveport (2-year)
So between the three systems, that's 14 4 year public higher education campuses in Louisiana. There is **zero** reason why a State with a population ~4.6M people needs that many.
Wow, that's absurd
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:22 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Lol, you bama fans melt so hard. There is a lot of big money donars in Louisiana and money will always be plentiful for LSU football. Tell your poor arse state to step up and upgrade your shitty facilities
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:23 pm to FightingTigers1
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Lol, you bama fans melt so hard. There is a lot of big money donars in Louisiana and money will always be plentiful for LSU football. Tell your poor arse state to step up and upgrade your shitty facilities
Wut
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:23 pm to FightingTigers1
Yea, George, stop melting so hard.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:38 pm to J2thaROC
Yeah Mississippi is the model for what government should do Jack wagon!!! You must be stupid or something how about you pay for your own healthcare or is it a right?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:39 pm to shoestring
Well yea what Edwards has done hasn’t helped but that doesn’t mean Jindal isn’t to blame. It still started with him.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:43 pm to Terrific Tales
Oh yeah just like Obama is to blame for the trump economy? Get real the economy slowed in La. when Edwards took office everyone knew he wanted to raise taxes and spend more on government assistance, and that's exactly what he has done.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:43 pm to Terrific Tales
Was it an issue pre-Jindal or did Jindal just have the best chance to fix a broken system?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:46 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Well as you know I’m quite young so maybe not the best for this. As far as whether it was already an issue, what I have gathered over the years is that it was a decently sized issue that Jindal just made 100 times worse.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 9:47 pm to Terrific Tales
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:00 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
My gripe with the state forever. It blows my mind that only Health and Higher Education are allowed to be cut due to shortfalls while everything else is protected. Crooked, crooked, crooked.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:07 pm to joshua2571
So since we beat you 2 out three guess Southern would sweep you sad asses
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:11 pm to NoNotMe
Bull shite. Jindal was not good for LA, especially his second term, but the problem comes directly from our state constitution that only allows funding cuts to higher education and hospitals.
The crooked arse politicians figures they’d never have a budget cut if everything else was protected so they wrote it into law.
The crooked arse politicians figures they’d never have a budget cut if everything else was protected so they wrote it into law.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:44 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Wow, that's absurd
Agreed. I've joked for a long time that with so many universities and redundancy in programs, kids in Louisiana decide first where they want to go to school, then what major. It should be the opposite with limited options per major.
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