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That's true, but as LL said, the balance is completely off. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 07/01/2010 05:30:56 AM
We're utterly destroying our nominal flagship university's budget while the DA in New Orleans indicts every single case, leading to an 85% win rate for the public defenders. In other words, we have an incompetent DA bankrupting the system while our education is being very unfairly slashed. As glad as I am that I don't attend LSU, they aren't doing anything wrong; there's been very solid improvement over the past decade, and it recently achieved Tier 1 status. While rankings are very arbitrary, a college that consistently moves up in them is doing something right. LSU is at serious risk of falling behind again.

In the end, painful cuts should not fall on one sector time after time. Even if education should be the first thing to get cut, it's reprehensible to cut it again and again without touching other budgets. Corrections has just as much pork as anything else. In Louisiana, it typically has more.
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