Jindal Bails-out Chicken Plant
When the national media spotlight last shone on our beloved Guv'nah Bobby Jindal, he was making some noise about how government could do no right and the private sector could do no wrong in response to President Obama's near-State of the Union Address.
Cynics among us noted that the Louisiana economy about which Jindal boasted was floating on a sea of federal disaster relief funds that had flooded our state as the waters of hurricanes Katrina and Rita ebbed. Jindal's speech proved once and for all that he is a card-carrying member of the immune to faction of the Republican Party.
But, fate being what it is, Jindal has recently had an opportunity to revisit the role of government in the marketplace right here in his own state and -- gasp! -- has come down firmly in the government intervention side of the argument.
Cynics among us noted that the Louisiana economy about which Jindal boasted was floating on a sea of federal disaster relief funds that had flooded our state as the waters of hurricanes Katrina and Rita ebbed. Jindal's speech proved once and for all that he is a card-carrying member of the immune to faction of the Republican Party.
But, fate being what it is, Jindal has recently had an opportunity to revisit the role of government in the marketplace right here in his own state and -- gasp! -- has come down firmly in the government intervention side of the argument.
