Jindal promises to cut spending during the campaign now about a Billion more in spending

[RB TexLa]

http://www.wdsu.com/news/15449357/detail.html?rss=no&psp=news


BATON ROUGE, La. -- Gov. Bobby Jindal has proposed a $30.1 billion budget for next year that includes new dollars for education and work force training, along with the expectation of more than $100 million in cuts to business taxes.

Jindal's budget chief, Commissioner of Administration Angele Davis, was preparing Friday to present the spending recommendations to the joint House and Senate budget committee.

Though the governor campaigned on ways to cut government spending, Jindal's spending recommendations are larger than the budget approved by lawmakers a year ago.

Much of the budget continues to involve direct federal aid for hurricane recovery. Although it's federal money it flows through the state budget and therefore affects the bottom line figure.

Lawmakers approved a $29.7 billion budget for the current year, but new federal hurricane recovery aid increased it to $34.3 billion.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Republicans end up not cutting spending--but lots of Dem governors do, somehow. Hee!

[JCMach1]

2. So the American taxpayer underwrites Republican excess

in LA...

:grr: