Logistics Problems
Y’all, we have a logistics problem. The state of Louisiana, America, is having a very busy week.
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana’s Department of Health will begin sending nursing home eviction notices Thursday to more than 30,000 residents who could lose Medicaid under the budget passed by the state House of Representatives.
Best I can figure, they have no place to put 30,000 nursing home residents. The “vast majority” of nursing homes will close and “more than 25,000 people” working in health care will lose their jobs.
The Louisiana State House has 105 representatives, the Louisiana Senate has 39 senators. If my math is correct, that’s about 208 people per state legislator. So, now the problem doesn’t look so big, right? So if each member of the legislature would just take 208 people home with them and house and feed them in their backyard, problem solved!
And how about the 25,000 people who will be unemployed? Simple! Put them in some of the empty nursing homes until they find another job.
But for goodness sake, do not raise taxes even one penny.