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.
“Compassionate conservatism” at its ‘best.’ However, there’s no need to raise taxes. Simply offer the tax exempt mooching churches an option to either pay taxes or do their ‘KKKChristian’ duty to care for the sick and elderly.
True fiscal conservatism, as opposed to the snacilbupeR perversion exemplified by Reaganomics, recognizes that expanding the tax base is a good thing. Remedies like a living wage for all along with closing bizarre and ridiculous loopholes seems so simple. Instead the snacilbupeR persist in failed policies and pretzel logic.
1This is a death sentence for these elderly nursing home residents.
2I hope the families of these elderly nursing home residents, take their loved one and park them in front of the state senate… Perhaps all an ordinary person can do is to try shaming the sobs’ in front of the media.
3The Louisiana State Legislature is a death panel.
4One of the many reasons why my late husband and even his late older brother never wanted to retire back home! Louisiana abounds in oil and gas wells. The petroleum industry located mostly on the Mississippi just a skosh from Baton Rouge frankly does not pay its share of taxes. Just to remind everyone of what they don’t pay, this industry will occasionally pollute the air so bad everyone is under house “arrest”. and the entire length of the Mississippi from the Gulf to well past Baton Rouge is well known as Cancer Alley. My late husband and his two brothers are prime examples.
5@Chloe Bear:
Thank you. You’ve given the perfect label for the actions of these legislators.
6To paraphrase E. Scrooge, “Are there no ice floes?”
And if you don’y know what that means, date an Eskimo.
7@Jane und PKM
+1
Yes churches of all hue can and should do more than they currently do.
@Kate French
8@Chloe Bear
+1
Yes of course. Death panels would of cource pass death sentences. Shades of the snacilbupeR and their unfounded “concerns” aboot the ACA.
Jane and PKM:
And as daddy Bush said. We’ve got a thousand points of light for the homeless man. A kinder gentler machine gun hand.
Although I gotta admit, it sounded a helluva lot better when Neil Young sang it.
9This looks like scratching at the foundation of Carson’s draconian edict: if the nursing home residents can’t work, they don’t get a bed. Their state government illustrates what I thought about people from the area – I recall as a school registrar I enrolled a child from Louisiana whose parents said was “gifted and talented”. Shortly afterward, after testing, he wound up in special education. Nothing wrong with needing special ed, but the legislators need some remediation – canning all those health workers will cut off the taxes they pay.
10Linda Phipps:
11Good point. It reminds me of something I read that a repugnantcan legislator was quoted as saying when asked how they expected to continue to fund the government with the tax cuts they were enacting. He said “We’re starving the beast.” From what I remember, that was years before the Trump era when all pretense of compassionate conservatism was revealed to be just so much bullsh*t.
Now we’re really starting to see who’re beasts in the eyes of these douchebags.
Have to say this really bugs me. My late wonderful mom in law devoted her adult life to teaching music in the Baton Rouge school system. When she had to go into care, she was able to get the very best private care. Her job allowed her to have a terrific insurance plan for teachers. She spent 13 years in care and getting the best. She was lucky indeed. I feel the pain the “evictees” are feeling. There is something rotten in Baton Rouge!
12Suggestion: Convert those nursing homes into gator farms and processing facilities.
Feed the gators a steady diet of LA legislators, nursing home residents, homeless people, unemployed, etc. The nursing home employees get to keep on working, probably with a few new-hires for handling the gators out back and a few butchers too.
Then open up a chain of fast food restaurants called ‘Louisiana Fried Gator Bites’ and start making some real money to make up for all the excessive tax cuts and sweetheart giveaways. A bootmaking and luggage shop(s) could be a profitable side biz too.
(BTW, last time I went grocery shopping (@HEB), in the seafood area I noticed packages of “Alligator Steaks”; I was tempted, I’d luv sneaking some of those on the grill and getting family reactions after eating some…)
13You have to wonder how many receiving those notices are even capable of reading and comprehending them.
14What would Huey Long do?
15I became a bigot about Louisiana (although I have relatives in N.O.) when I went to basic training at Fort Polk (Puke), La., (drafted) in l968. There were about 20 Cajuns in my company. Personal hygiene was a foreign concept to these boys. Not the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree either. Hell, they couldn’t find the Christmas tree unless you put it in the big pitcher winduh in the living room. I can’t describe my terror the day we all went to the rifle range, and I thought that all these boys would be nearby for hours with loaded rifles. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior when the orders for Vietnam came down, and not one Cajun was going in my group.
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