He was seriously talked around for the 2012 pres bid
Isaac Send a noteboard - 07/01/2010 01:05:35 AM
god forbid we educate people to make corrections less necessary. Or help fund their health. We have to keep these people in CONTROL dangit!! CONTROL!!!
Well, that works both ways, by and large the idea to use improved education and living standard as a means of raising people above criminal tendencies has some merit to it, though rarely as much as was hoped for, but you can flip that the other way, less crime can just as easily, and often more dirctly, result in higher standards of living and such.
By and large spending on cops, jails, and military tends to be very beneficial for the public health. Remember this is the state that basically turned into one big prolonged disaster area a few years back up to and including gangs of murderous thugs and looters, the public tends to demand action, regrettably not always especially wise action, I've no idea if they've gone over the top there or not. In either event, any area of spending by public sector is nominally for the public health, education tended to be pushed through on the idea that educated people would be healthier both by healthier action as intelligent people and greater wealth from increased productivity. Spending on military, specifically Nat Guard, is essentially trying to maximize disaster relief responses, ditto police and jails with the added health advantage of not being murdered in your home by a violent criminal. There's obviously a point of diminishing returns, but one shouldn't assume every dollar removed from funding hospitals actually means a dollar more of sickness, sticking that into safer roads with rumble strips and more cops on the beat will see some down turn in people ending up in the ER from car accidents or crimes. More cops tends to see less gang activity which has some effect on education, especially since kids who get injured, jailed or killed from them tend to get poor grades. So there is a certain logic in it, obviously you can only pump so much cash into one area though before you'd start getting better effects by putting it into another. I've no idea if that's the case in Louisiana though.
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Moderates, Idiots, Apathy, and Mass Hysteria – A post-holiday rant
06/01/2010 04:51:41 PM
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Re: Moderates, Idiots, Apathy, and Mass Hysteria – A post-holiday rant
06/01/2010 05:06:33 PM
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Re: Moderates, Idiots, Apathy, and Mass Hysteria – A post-holiday rant
06/01/2010 05:12:47 PM
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I generally agree with you
06/01/2010 06:10:45 PM
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Re: I generally agree with you
06/01/2010 07:11:22 PM
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you should sneer at asprin anyways *NM*
06/01/2010 07:55:29 PM
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It's the whole 'natural' thingy...
06/01/2010 08:14:45 PM
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if there was a berry i could stick up my nose...
06/01/2010 08:17:00 PM
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When spring rolls around again I'd probably join you
06/01/2010 08:42:05 PM
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well, just as a note to life expectency
06/01/2010 09:55:12 PM
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I dunno, I tend to prefer moderates above partisans.
06/01/2010 06:29:27 PM
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That's not really a moderate though
06/01/2010 06:51:05 PM
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This was a fun post to read.
06/01/2010 07:52:46 PM
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One tries one's best
06/01/2010 08:28:08 PM
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Jindal is well meaning, but he's a horrible governor.
06/01/2010 09:29:57 PM
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So I presume he is republican?
06/01/2010 09:56:42 PM
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He was seriously talked around for the 2012 pres bid
07/01/2010 01:05:35 AM
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you're not wrong
07/01/2010 01:11:17 AM
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It sounds harsh but sometimes cutbacks help
07/01/2010 02:58:24 AM
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That's true, but as LL said, the balance is completely off.
07/01/2010 05:30:56 AM
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But you already have insane amounts of people in jail.
07/01/2010 11:22:19 PM
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The higher crime rate in the US is something of a different issue
08/01/2010 08:26:00 PM
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I disagree with about 70-80% of what you said, but I don't have time ATM to go through it all
07/01/2010 02:00:02 AM
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I am unsure whether to be impressed or offended (and this necro is your own fault. )
05/02/2012 02:37:54 PM
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