Jindal, R, Governor of LA , shows true colors: He would never win election today.

 

58% of Louisianans approved of Bobby Jindal in 2010 while only 34% disapproved, but in 2013 only 37% approve and 57% disapprove. This downward slide is due to his stereotypical GOP colors as perceived by the majority of people. In other words, the main thing he does is to help the rich using the backs of the poor. Here are specific examples:

a.      He is a hypocrite. He bragged about creating jobs but got   

          rid of 4,500 jobs in  4 years.

b.      He closed the C. Paul Phelps Correction Center recently

         without consulting local leaders and got rid of 250 jobs.

c.      He closed the correction center to send these jobs to the

         private sector and pay back his wealthy campaign donors.

d.      He campaigned against raising any taxes for any reason.

          However, he now wants to eliminate State Income Taxes

          and raise sales taxes from 4% to 5.88%. This will not hurt

         the rich but will really have a negative impact on the poor.

e.      Jindal announced that Louisiana would stop the Medicaid

          hospice program in February 2013. Poor Jindal, intense

          public pressure made him scrap his plans to stop end-of- 
      life help to the poor.

f.       LSU will lose $122 million in Medicaid payments and the

          rates for treating Medicaid payments will decrease 10%. 

g.      Jindal wants to take money dedicated to public schools to

          send to religious schools that teach creationism.

h.      He changed teacher evaluation to the point where it is

          almost impossible to get tenure. For example, 50% of a

          teacher’s rating is directly related to student performance

          and improvement. Consider these points:

1.      What about teachers who have the cream-of –the crop?

          They are already at the top, so how can their

          performance improve to the extent needed to trigger
          tenure?

2.      What about teachers who have the students who are

          delinquents and don’t give a damn about anything, who

          constantly disrupt the class so that even those who

          want to learn cannot, whose parent are not involved

          with them or their school work? Even the most

          dedicated and diligent teachers could not reach  tenure

          with them.

I.         Jindal campaigned on having a transparent state
      government, but he has one of the most non-transparent ever.
      For example, his officials used personal (non-state
      government) email addresses dozens of times to discuss a
      public relations offensive for making $523 million in health care
      cuts. They were not provided to the Associated Press in
     response to a public records request.

j. He refuses to extend Medicaid to the poor which will result in
   hundreds-of-thousands of uninsured people in Louisiana. He has
   not given valid or sensible reasons for his refusal. He has also not
   given valid or logical explanations of alternatives to serve the
   health care of these people.

   The public perception is that he is pandering to the GOP for
   political reasons, because he wants to be the next President.