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To be fair, Jindal didn't create the problem Louisiana faces today. In fact, the governor's supporters can rightly argue that he's made progress in whittling away much of the structural deficit the state faces while upholding a hard pledge not to balance the budget by raising taxes. Jindal has eliminated over 6,000 positions in state government during his term as governor, he has ratcheted real spending downward over the past two years and he's undergone structural reforms designed to reduce Louisiana's Medicaid and state retirement costs. Louisiana's higher education establishment and health care providers, spending on whose services has been the primary target of the budget reductions given that higher education and health care represent the majority of the state's discretionary spending, are anything but Jindal fans.
But his detractors aren't measuring Jindal's budgetary performance against recent history, when the state's economy was riding high and its treasury was replete with recovery dollars from Hurricane Katrina.
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http://spectator.org/archives/2012/0...dget-blind-spo
Louisiana has a problem with spending and it's going to get worse and Jindal is not doing enough, not too much. Pretty much most states are having this problem.