A few days ago, I wrote a piece here that explained what would be the likely result of the Supreme Court decision making the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion optional rather than mandatory. Gulf States would reject the optional funds unless they were provided with a carrot, so that states from other regions of the country would subsidize them. Politico has decided to look at this same situation today, and comes up with the same conclusion.
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The Louisiana Republican Party announced today that it has begun fighting recall efforts against Bobby Jindal and three state representatives, House Speaker Chuck Kleckley of Lake Charles and representatives Greg Cromer and Kevin Pearson, both from Slidell. The recall is because of successful passage of Jindal’s educational reforms last month, which will move public school dollars to private and parochial schools. The recall petition was started by two public school teachers in Calcasieu Parish, where Lake Charles is located.
Everyone knows that education in America is a national disgrace. Here in Louisiana it’s even worse. Until Bobby Jindal became Governor, the politicians who were in charge, whether they were Democrats or Republicans were happy to allow the ineptitude of the schools here to remain decrepit. The educators in charge of public schools were happy just to take a paycheck without having to be bothered with actually teaching kids. The people in charge of the private schools were happy to maintain the status quo; if public schools were better at teaching kids, then private schools would have to improve too, and that would cost them money. But Jindal decided to attack this problem this year.
Mayhem broke out at Santa Monica College when campus police had to pepper spray students protesting a Board of Trustees meeting. About 30 students were treated for injuries and three were hospitalized. The students were upset over plans for the college to institute a two-tiered tuition program. The community college has been forced to trim its budget and eliminate some 1,100 classes out of the 7,400 offered. Some classes would have their class fees increased as much as 400%. About 100 students gathered to attend the meeting, but were shut out due to the small size of the room. As the crowd grew unruly, two campus police officers reacted by pepper spraying the students.
Introduced on the floor of the House by Michigan Democrat, Rep. Hansen Clarke as HR 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 could be good news for Barack Obama in securing the youth vote. The repayment plan for the federal loans guaranteed by the United States would be completely forgiven after 10 years. The program would blow the doors off of any budget caps to discretionary income spending, as with current interest rates, student loans total up to more than $1 Trillion dollars. If passed, then a participant would have to make a minimum of 120 monthly payments, then the rest of the outstanding loan would be absolved after ten years. In ′hardship cases′ guidelines in the bill would allow for students short on cash to make a ′payment′ of $0 merely by sending in the payment ticket by mail or electronically.
