“It looks like we just give sort of a blank check to the Department of Economic Development, and it doesn’t come from their money. It comes from the treasury.”
–State Rep. John Schroder (R-Covington), in questioning whether sufficient accountability and reporting was being required of the Louisiana Office of Economic Development in its push for even more corporate tax breaks even as it was announced that the state would have to cut another $215 million in expenditures this year.
Louisiana Voice 
An “ah-hah” moment for at least one legislator! Had it not been for the “blank check” mentality of the legislature over so many years, maybe there would be no UAL, and state employees wouldn’t be looking down the barrel of Jindal’s “brilliant” plan to treat them like co-signers on a bad debt! Damn the arrogance – and ignorance – of politicians!