“We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything. We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys.”
—Gov. Piyush Jindal, in a post-election interview with Politico Live as he launched his 2016 presidential campaign.
Louisiana Voice 
I laughed and laughed when I read Jindal’s comments. And we thought Mitt Romney could jump to every side of every issue! The funniest one was “GOP can’t be the party of stupid.” This from the Gov of a state that allows teaching creationism, allows teaching that the Loch Ness Monster disproves evolution, and allows teaching that Climate Change is not happening at all. How quickly did Jindal pivot from Far-Right pandering to moderation? He must have gotten whiplash. The Governor of The State of Stupid refuses to set-up an insurance exchange of Private companies so our uninsured can have coverage….this is Smart? The Gov of The State of Stupid has given toys to his supporters in the way of high-paying state jobs and contracts. The Gov of The State of Stupid has given toys to Private Prison companies, to Private & Religious education companies, to private hospitals, etc etc. The Rich who own Private companies got their toys….they were gifted all the government services that benefit the public-as-a-whole, with taxpayers paying the bill. And in the long run, private companies need to make more and more profit to satisfy their owners & investors, to meet the salary raises for their workers….who will pay for these rise in expenses in the form of profit/salaries/benefits? The taxpayers will pay, of course. Privatization (gifts to rich private companies) was sold as being more efficient and less expensive to taxpayers…but someone has to pay for them & their endless need for more money. It will cost taxpayers in the long run. Jindal is the Santa Claus who dispenses gifts to his rich cronies….In all my long life in LA, I’ve never seen anything like it. If he does run for President, he’ll have to do it as a moderate, (as the recent election proves), and everything he has done to sell Louisiana to his rich cronies will come back to slap him in the face during the election. People of America will turn from Jindal and what he has done…the same way, for the same reason, that they rejected Romney. Good luck with sounding moderate, Bobby….we can prove otherwise. And intend to do so.
Jason DeCuir hired as chief of staff at revenue. Another failed politician gets a cushy state job.
This is precisely what Jindal has done from the beginning of his career. He trained at the McKinzie group which specialized in showing young idealogues how to profit from these and remain just within the current law; profiteering sheltered by poor governement regulation.
Aptly stated! Write an op-Ed piece, please,
and submit to Advocate.
I think I need some help understanding the difference between economic development and big corporate loopholes. “Stupid” is thinking you will have credibility by spending the last year supporting a candidate, then going on he attack two weeks later.
Is Jindal a synonym for Santorum?
If there’s any doubt that the GOP is the party of big business read this…http://dailyspate.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/parallel-universe/