Gov. Bobby Jindal may accept refused stimulus money for expanded unemployment benefits

[funkybutt]

Source: Times Picayune, New Orleans

Gov. Bobby Jindal's workforce commissioner said Thursday that the U.S. Labor Department's latest clarification of the federal stimulus act has opened the possibility that the administration could consider accepting a previously rejected $98.4 million package of extra jobless benefits, although important questions remain in what has become a high-profile issue.

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State agency officials are seeking more answers and continuing to examine the consequences of accepting the money, Barfield said. He said it was not out of the question that he could recommend that the governor accept the package "if we can show it does not increase taxes on business and industry."

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A key sticking point for Jindal was that the federal stimulus act requires states to adopt "permanent" changes to accommodate the expanded system. Jindal's team and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., have been asking what would happen if the state changed its law and repealed it later. Would the federal government try to get the money back?

The U.S. Department of Labor sent a letter to Landrieu on Wednesday stating that the stimulus act "does not prohibit the state's legislature from repealing these provisions in the future."

Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/louisiana_may_accept_refused_s.html

[marylanddem]

1. So Jindal is looking forward to breadlines?

Another Republican piece of shit.

[thereismore]

2. What?? He takes the money and gets to make demands? nt

[jus_the_facts]

3. Yeah that extra 25 dollars a week will make things sooo much better....

...and that extra hundred a month MAY pay A bill....they've already given notice that unemployment benefits were supposed to go up 25.00 March 9th....there's hasn't been an extra CENT put on our JP MORGAN CHASE DEBIT CARD THAT THEY'RE USING TO FUCK US OUT OF EVEN MORE MONEY with their ATM fees....makes me feel extreme hatred...and I hate that! :rant:

[niceypoo]

4. I still watch his goofy rebuttle to Obamas SOU

This guy is such a freaking dork

[gratuitous]

5. Just so you're crystal clear, Louisiana residents

You can starve in the streets before Jindal and his political pals would raise taxes on business by one dime. And they will tell you with your dying breath that it's for your own good. And some of you will enter eternity believing it.

[jus_the_facts]

11. Yes too many will believe it.....

....but just so it's crystal clear...not all of us down here are fucktards! :hi:

[gratuitous]

12. That's why I said only "some" would believe it

I have met and know too many fine folks who have moved from Louisiana (never been there myself, but it's on my to do list) to think that everyone there is a Jindal-supporting pinhead.

[juajen]

16. Thanks for pointing that out. I get rather tired of always being

considered a village idiot. Really, people, a lot of us do have brains and actually use them.

[scytherius]

6. Wow. What a sacrifice he is making. /s

Tired of Republicans. Tired of legions of evil on Earth.

[Jefferson23]

7. So the creep wants it both ways, please Jindal, continue to

expose your hypocrisy, you're so good at it.

[funkybutt]

8. Looks like the support and poplarity he enjoyed

before is fading fast. Check out this LTTE from a former Jindal supporter published today in the Times Picayune:

http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1237526515227630.xml&coll=1

"Jindal has enough to do in La.

I think Gov. Bobby Jindal might be wise to stay at home to do the job the people of Louisiana elected him to do.

I voted for him because he seemed warm and caring and I felt he had the best interests of the people of Louisiana at heart. But now he just seems cold and calculating!

The $3 million plus he has already accumulated would suffice to re-elect him if he was actually working for the people in the state of Louisiana instead of trying to appease the Republican Party.

If his intentions are simply to be a poster boy for his party so he can run for president in 2010, he should step down now to allow someone who really cares about this state to step up to the plate.

Louisiana needs leadership, not a career politician."

[mikeytherat]

9. Run for President in 2010?

Good luck with that. The rest of us are gonna wait until 2012.

mikey_the_rat

[funkybutt]

14. LOL - I totally overlooked that

Maybe the person meant that he'd have to start running in 2010. who knows..

[fascisthunter]

10. geez... get over yourself. This is about people in need, and not your...

goofey failed economic ideology. This is one reason I extremely dislike the GOP. They will allow folks to die, just because of an ideology or belief. It really is a very twisted and detached way of reacting to citizen's needs, especially in an economic crisis he helped create with his nutcase political party.....

[SpiralHawk]

13. typical republicon flip-flopper

geeez - is there anything more pathetic than a republicon homelander pretending to take a stance on principle ?

FAIL - as usual.

[No Elephants]

15. Take it as it is and say "Thank you," like yo mama taught you or leave it and we'll say "Good

riddance."

The Dept. Of Labor should have told Senate Coalition to Block Obama Landrieu to take a hike.

If a U.S. Senator and a Rhodes Scholar Governor cannot figure out that Legislature can repeal or amend ANY statute that the Legislature enacted in the first place, both should be in remedial civics class, not holding important government offices.

What freakin' embarrassments.

[juajen]

17. Frankly, he is not too popular in this state right now

A lot of people need those extra benefits. He has heard of "recall" and a lot of people here are talking about it. If he's changing his tune, it's because he is afraid that this is dangerous ground.