Jackson Jambalaya

Tate does well to tout his allegiance to the policies of the past. Mississippi is and will continue to be a divided state. It has NEVER been anything else. His side wants to MAINTAIN Not CHANGE and they outnumber the other side. Tate must play to base. He will never appeal to the other side even if he wanted to. Those who do not like these facts need only leave. And they do in droves. This is Mississippi.

" But Mississippi relies more on low-wage versions of these production jobs than does any state in the union."

Well Mr.Crawford, that's the best we can do with a large portion of our workforce.
(With notable exceptions such as Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula and a few others).

Anyway.

Perhaps next week, you can provide some insight into what Congressman Bennie Thompson has done for his district during the last 27 years.

Granted, no one would ever expect the US Government to choose Indianola to manufacture high tech military projects . . . but surely after almost 30 years in "DC", one would think Bennie could have at least secured a few plants for his constituency.

You know . . . simple jobs . . . ( but said jobs would still provide better pay than public assistance ).

Say for example, something like a "La Banderita Flour Burrito" plant.

Just thinking.

Tate - how ‘bout rethinking your no gas tax position? Thanks to fracking, gasoline prices per gallon are almost 1/2 of what they were 7 - 8 years ago. No one would notice a 5 cent per gallon tax. We would, however, notice better and safer roads and bridges. Business friendly, too! When the facts change, sensible people’s opinions change. What about you?

Crawford has absolutely no idea what the wage structure is in this state, or what manufacturing jobs pay. He relies solely on what somebody in the legislature told him 17 years ago. He still thinks the best route from Meridian to Vicksburg is Old Highway 80.

I'll be tickled pink to have 8 more years just like the last 8. You know, maybe it's time those that have influence in this state start pointing the finger at those that make life tough here in the Mississippi. We all know who I'm talking about. I'm tired of excuses and sick of those who relish wallowing in the past everyday.

@4:38PM Are you OUT yo mind? Don't encourage the numbskull....they're hemorrhaging tax payer money and are desperate to keep the musical chairs going, but the state is going to reach a critical mass of people that aren't being taken care of, and there's going to be pushback. There always is.

Mississippi is a ticking time bomb ripe for revolution.....Most Mississippians don't have much to lose, and that's the most dangerous person in the world.

Name me all those industries these other congressmen have brought to the state.

Bill Crawford makes a critical point. The larger problems in our state have not been addressed. Infrastructure repair, education and mental health have not been addressed. And now finding that DHS funds have been misdirected. And medicare funds so sorely needed being refused by the state. The previous administration and the current administration have no new ideas. Crawford is correct.

Deaths in prisons? When the reprobates receive “life sentences”, where else are they expected to die? I know I am syndical, but It is hard for me to be overly symphathetic.

Benny was with the next President and Vice President in Jackson today. If any pork is to come our way in the next 4 years, it's has a better chance of coming from him, than any of the other boys and girls who go to Washington.

Can I just ask...does anyone honestly feel like we propelled the state of Mississippi by putting this guy in the “wheelhouse”?...and yes, I held my nose an pulled the trigger also.

"...significantly change future directions." What? Mississippi just had an election and obviously rejected that thinking. Tater wants two terms and will run the same ole playbook as long as it works. And it works. Mississippi is not a progressive state and never will be because the progressive young people will all leave, no matter what some columnist writes. If a bullfrog had wings he'd fly. If his name was Mississippi he'd fly backwards. Right back to the past.

I enjoy the comic statements on here who think Dim-O-Krats are the saving grace......

To see their benefits, all you have to do is look at sh*thole California, the new carbon copy Virginia, and lets not leave out the Dim-O-Krat utopia Jackson/Hinds county.

Then you can start looking in Mississippi at all the once prosperous cities/town that the Dim-O-Krats have killed, then move on to Detroit, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, the war zone of Chicago.

They whine about about voter ID, but are doing all they can do to on letting illegal aliens vote. And don't forget all the devious cap they pulled in their on party last election, yea just who I want to represent me, "not" because they have no use for me, since I work and they can't buy my vote with free handouts like they do with the dregs of society.

When Democrats support ending hearty benefits for the non working people then it is possible we will increase our productivity. The wagon has too many riders, is heavy and hard to pull boss. It is also hard to attract a business that has much to offer since so many of out areas have about nothing to offer them. Why would they come. Why should we voluntarily pay more in Gas Tax for road building when they squander the money by giving contracts to unqualified minorities who are paper contractors. When Democrats get serious they will demand that the productive people stop being forced to support the unproductive and unqualified.

Politically is seems people are divided on ideology by how they get their money. The less they seem to do to get it or the less pain endured to acquire it, the less they believe others deserve to have theirs.

@10:55, The Re-pubs have been running this state for years. Where are the improvements? Where is the industry? Where are the jobs? Name one major accomplishment that has improved this state. Then the Re-pubs in Mississippi help to elect Trump, the dumbest, most embarrassing president in U.S. history. Mississippi is backwards and nonproductive today, will be the same tomorrow, and will continue the same backward thinking and nonproductive traditions forever.

@4:38 Good point. Also, add that Tate lied over and over again about the cost per citizen of the 5 cent gas price increase. His number was ridiculously inflated, and nobody chastised him for it. He simply got away with it. He laughed all the way to victory with his insane calculation.

11:58, Trump is still so far ahead of off the two worst Dim-O-Krats POTUS it isn't funny.

The only reason MS is # 50 is all the Dim-O-Krat supporters. They have dumbed down the education system, sitting on the corner waiting their next handout, so they run down to corner and get a load of fresh fried food to stuff their already fat butts.

Sure is funny Red counties don't have the problems Jackson and all the copycat counties up & down the Mississippi river do. Keep drinking the kool-aid moron, you deserve it.

Lets put

5 cents on gas
1 dollar on cigarettes
50 cents on each cigar used to make blunts
50 dollars on each antique tag per year
Food boxes of commodities instead of food stamp cards. Each containing 2 weeks of food, renewable by a phone call or letter preprinted and picked up by the postman or online.

Also, add that Tate lied over and over again about the cost per citizen of the 5 cent gas price increase.

Prove it.

It is a ridiculously lazy analysis to repeatedly give other elected officials a pass by stating the ever popular "what has Bennie Thompson done for his district." Can you all qualify that lazy statement/analysis by telling us what any congressman/senator has done for their district. Except for Palazzo and Kelly we could use a complete overhaul.

@8:16 add:

$1 per pack of rolling papers
10 cents per kilowatt hour used to charge electric vehicles
$1000 for every handmade sign Kenneth Stokes festoons on Jackson power poles
$10,000 for every time Antard says ", right?".

To the people of MS when the Democrats ran things, MS was poor. The republicans have had control for quite some time now and things have not changed much for the middle and lower class. That should tell you all you need to know about today's political parties and politicians. I think its funny when people get on here and bicker from a red v. blue perspective as if one is better than the other. they all tell lies and use fear to their advantage.

8:57 - It's not lazy at all. What's lazy is Thompson sitting on his tush for 27 years while becoming a millionaire. Where were you when Stennis, Eastland, Franklin, Lott, Nunnelee, Parker, Pickering, Cochran, Whitten, and every other congressman and senator other than Espy and Thompson were bringing industrial prospects and jobs to this state? All of those named have been active in promoting this entire state during his tenure and that includes meeting with governors and others in industrial and business recruitment efforts. Thompson? Name one.

Please tell us of one job, other than his staff, he has brought to District 2 in the past 27 years. And you can go back even further than that if you'd like to include his stay on the Hinds County Board of Supervisors.

And, yes, you give yourself away by using the term 'you all' in your question.

I believe Bennie assisted a wig shop in Bolton to open.

I still waiting for a name of those industries they brought to the Sip..I have given you long enough to think. So I guess you can't name one. It's all pork, do worry I saw him with the next President Sunday, they're tight.

Pork? You know why it's considered pork? Because these hundreds of industries and expansions represent jobs and 'you people' aren't any more interested in jobs than you are libraries. Pork? But you're first in line for one of Bennie's pork bar b ques and fish fries.

I watched a 2012 Obama 'shovel ready' pork project build a 4 lane bridge and illegal aliens were the only sweat labor ever on the job site. And of course our Governor posted a sign taking credit for the new bridge being built. Maybe he endorsed Obama's check over to the contractor.

10:05 pm You are really clueless if you think Virginia is in trouble. You clearly don't know that Chicago is still a great place to visit and their historic downtown was never abandoned . Nor do you have a clue about Detroit's history ( how the decline started and the political aspects) or the progress happening now. have you kept up with Detroit.

You know nothing about cities or crime. Crime is bred is the poorest areas of any city or town. The larger cities have more people. They don't own the run down places they rent or run down houses they buy.

I can't get you to read any reference books on cities and how they evolve. But,maybe You will watch The Godfather movies or West Side Story. There are and were white criminal gangs too. And, it's always, the commerce destroys the residential tax base in a city and resurgence happens when the commutes from the suburbs become so annoying that regentrification takes place.

And, I doubt you've been to Great Britain or Germany or France and visited in the countryside that wasn't bombed, but those who have should have noticed that dwellings older than our entire Nation have been well maintained and indeed, are still beautiful and functional. Some visitors without curiosity may have thought these villages were just redone by some tourist industry mogul. No. It's pride of place, priorities and the right kind of reverence for history and place. It's understanding that money spent doesn't automatically equate with quality and sustainable value.

Laurel and Tupelo seem to be going in the right direction and it's not tearing down green spaces and well constructed buildings to replace them with boxes surrounded by parking lots or shopping centers with cheap facades.

9:07 - How do you feel now that six hours has passed since your unrelated and disjointed tirade? Much better, I do hope. Turn in early tonight and have a special day tomorrow.

Dang it's hard to read 9:07 with the awkward misplacement & usage of commas. What school teaches (or doesn't teach) such usage?