Comments for Jindal: GOP must stop being 'stupid party' at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.theind.com Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/12691-jindal-gop-must-stop-being-stupid-party#comment-27612 So, Jindal is admonishing the GOP to be a little less stupid, guess we could call it “The Stupid Diet”. From fiscally responsible let us examine “stupid”. Stupid can be defined as such: 1. entering office in 2008 with a surplus in excess of $600 million dollars and within 7 months predicting a deficit and cutting public services, laying off state employees, and increasing cost to the states institutions of higher learning. 2. refusing to support repeal/modification of the 1994 severance tax exemption granted oil & gas production from horizontally drilled wells costing the state in excess of $400 million dollars of much needed revenue every year. What was truly stupid was Jindal's reasoning: to repeal the severance tax would "entice" drilling companies to drill in other states. Oh really, I guess the production companies paid for leases to drill in another state—now that is stupid. What would they do Bobby, rip up the formations, the fields and drag them to Texas? Give me a break. 3. decreasing the effective severance tax rate on natural gas production from a level in 2009 of 33.10 cents per MCF(1,000 cubic foot of production) to a level of 14.84 cents per MCF for current 2012—now that is stupid.(RF: PG 8, 2012 DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOUCES REPORT) which reduced severance collections accordingly. 4. decreasing the state corporate franchise and income taxes paid from a level of $995 million dollars collected for 2008 to a level of $224 million dollars in 2011, a reduction of almost $800 million dollars (actually a decrease of $771 million dollars, but then whose counting—Jindal's administration sure ain't.) 5. allowing past due collections owed the state in excess of $1 billion dollars—that's right folks $1 billion dollars- to go uncollected (Advocate article 8/24/12, per press release by Sec. Of Treasury John Kennedy). Now that's stupid. And the list could go on and on...but I think you get the picture. Jindal calling the GOP stupid is like the proverbial pot call the kettle black. He is so guilty of so many stupid, heinously callous actions that when one looks up the definition of stupid, one finds a pic of Jindal in the margin. For an individual who was supposedly so intelligent, he surely don't show it--his intelligence that is. - Greg Foreman Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:49:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/12691-jindal-gop-must-stop-being-stupid-party#comment-27611 Jindal would be wise to heed the words of comedian Ron White, "you can fix stupid" or Forest Gump, "stupid is as stupid does". - Greg Foreman Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:17:00 +0100