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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 1656323, member: 3399"] As a Tea Party adherent, Bobby Jindal gave away a budget surplus (around $865 million) as a tax refund upon entering office eight years ago, confident in his adminstration's projections that oil prices would remain high. Outside economists told him that such rosy projections were folly, to no avail. He had budget deficits from that day forward. He refused to raise any tax and cut education and health care for eight years. He sold state buildings and cars and leased them back to generate "one time cash" and stripped the state agencies of Federal cash (like road construction funds for Dept. of Transportation) to plug the budget gap. The continuing decline in oil prices accelerated the problem. The Jindal chickens have come home to roost. [URL='http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/06/bobby_jindals_disgraceful_fisc.html']http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2..._fisc.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]