Jackson Jambalaya

Interesting that Delbert campaigned on M.E. But dropped the ball this session. I keep hearing he doesn’t have control of the Senate !

Lt. Governor wants a work requirement. Speaker does not want a work requirement. Which is conservative and which is liberal ?

“…working poor…”? Non-working poor is a more accurate description of those that would benefit.

8:09 Nice try-Lt. Gov. has total control . He is obviously a staunch conservative who runs the adult side of the legislature. This is why he recived more votes than any other state wide elected Republican in our state. People respect his integrity and honesty.

All the political posturing and righteous indignation regarding who works and who does not will fade away after the presidential election and Trump makes his pronouncement. The welfare of "the people" never mattered anyway.

Salter has never opposed any expansion of the Welfare State. On one hand he'll tell you that Mississippians are funding welfare state payments in other states and on the other, when it suits his narrative, he reminds Mississippi of its net Federal largesse beneficiary status and why that demands our kowtow to Uncle Sam. Are there any truly honest conservative columnists remaining in Mississippi? I think not.

Things do change slowly in Mississippi. That’s a big part of why the state’s still 2-3 generations away from general prosperity, and emerging from the last decile in every measure of quality of life.

First come the unskilled jobs (and a bigger tax base), then come the skilled jobs, and the prosperity grows and continues so.

Tater is doing a great job in this important area. But it’s still more than two generation away from impacting the general populace. So everybody chill.

When you put all the politics aside, we are still talking about giving money away. That's what this is. It's Mississippi taxpayer dollars matched up, according to some formula, with federal taxpayer dollars. But a lot of people had to work to pay those taxes that the politicians, and columnists, are now talking about giving away. Is this the proper role of government - to deduct money from a lot of paychecks just so career politicians can keep their leather chairs by giving that money away?

Our federal government “gives away” billions of dollars to other countries. I believe that is part of America’s world role. So is providing health care to the poor.

How this played out in the Senate is confirmation that Inglebert is already a lame duck with Watson waiting in the wings.

11:13 why is that America's role? Why is giving stuff away anyone's role? If I wanted the government to give me my house, or my car, would you say that's a legit role for government? After all, we all need shelter and a way to get to our jobs and other places. Where does it end? When does taking money from some people and giving it to others stop being the role of government?

Rukia woulda got it done

I disagree Sid; expansion would NEVER pass if voted on-
the silent majority out there would rise to vote it down.

If you could fund Medicaid without raising taxes on working folks or if Medicaid reimbursement rates were high enough to keep rural hospitals open, I might be for it. But you can’t and they aren’t, so I’m a no on any kind of Medicaid expansion. I’m tapped out on already on paying for other people’s free shit.

11:55
That is HILARIOUS! Keep wishing.

Sid talks politics but hasn't spent any meaningful time at the Capitol since the Musgrove administration.

4:40 - That's because Sid is comfortably bunkered-up in the safety of a public-employment cubicle at State College....checking daily on his PERS account.

The taxpayers are just a few short years from providing him with a nice, lifetime retirement. Then he can spend his remaining years hosting 'the working poor' at his Neshoba cabin.

medicade may not have been expanded but you can bet your ass all the administrative agencies of the state were given a healthy expansion to be filled with more government workers and Law enforcement wannabe badasses who will draw a good salary and full benefits and get paid to sit on their butts and not do anything all day.


oh and lets not forget all of the new boards, commissions, agencies, districts, and other government glee clubs that were created by the legislature this year so that politicians can hand out do nothing jobs to their chums. remember , this is mississippi .........




and the only growth industry is government.