Jackson Jambalaya

Derogatory "boomer" comments in 3, 2, 1...

Sounds like we should stop sending trillions of our tax dollars to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and everyone else on the planet, and instead take care of the people who paid the damn taxes!

I’ll be 80 in February, but I’m in good health and in decent physical shape for my age. In view of the content of Salters’ piece, it’s clear that Mississippi is headed for a fiscal disaster. Continuing to reduce revenue in the face of a clear need for additional expenditures as the population ages is folly. The investments that the current administration brags about won’t generate any State revenue. Maybe we need to adopt an updated version of Jonathon Swift’s “Modest Proposal”, although there’s not as much meat on an old person as on kids.

In Mississippi it's still all about the WHO and not the WHAT as always. WHO will benefit? Whether they have political influence will determine WHO gets the help from state government. Need is not the issue. WHO will be allowed to develop programs to address the shortage of professionals and WHO will not. Ask the IHL. It won't be determined by need but by influence, clout. The article talks about need. We need to talk about clout.

Once again Mississippi Sid Salter pulls his punches.

He defines a myriad of problems but can't bring himself to say he's advocating for, at the federal/state level, truly massive amounts of incremental spending and new confiscatory taxation necessary to deploy the solutions he proposes.

Per Sid, his silver tsunami can only be mitigated with a concomitant opposing tsunami of new government spending.

He just doesn't have the stones to tell you that.

38 Trillion + of national debt…..a 1.77 Trillion + Fiscal Year 2025 National Deficit…..a “workforce crisis” combined with 42 million Americans/12% of the total US population relying upon SNAP/food stamps (that keeps Sid’s Democrat pal Bennie Thompson in office)…..Biden induced inflation that made the rich much, much richer while a Jackson, MS metro area starter home inflated up to 50% more than only a short time period ago/pre-covid (with the so-called educated not having a single clue as to why)…..a MS State Retirement (PERS) unfunded liability disaster of around $26 billion due to underfunding and design flaws, and a declining ratio of active workers to retirees…..etc., etc., etc.,…..and what does Sid tell us?

Sid gives us the old 1983 lyrics “with a rebel yell, s(he) cried, more, more, more.”

It really seems like there’s just not much that excites Boomer Yellow Dog Democrats like Sid Salter more than piling up additional debt for the future generations to be responsible for (after he is/they are gone, of course).

Free the taxes.

the sky never falls. chill

Workforce programs center on training and job placement. Those are essential, yes, but it's not nearly that simple. Another key reason we have a workforce crisis is the enormous number of young people who simply don't want to work. Or, if they are even willing to take a job, they lack soft skills like showing up every day and being on time. I don't know how you fix that.

@9:09 Ever notice how so many one-time journalists in the metro area left the 'industry' to go work for some form of govt/edu job w/ PERS benefits? State govt is crawling with these people serving in communication roles.

“we face a workforce crisis. The same wave that’s aging our population is also retiring our health care providers. Nurses, doctors, and case managers are leaving the field just as their expertise is most needed. Mississippi’s medical workforce is already stretched thin. If we don’t act now to recruit and retain providers — especially in underserved areas — we’ll be staring down a full-blown crisis.”

Wasn’t changing the state flag and passing Obamacare supposed to fix all of this, as promised , you twit?

Those that have spent a lifetime working and putting into the system (without choice) should be first. Those who have not should be last. Period.

10:02 AM, thanks for making these very valid points.

The MS State Flag manufactured crises was such a huuuuge deal, wasn’t it? And how many fools fell for the Obamacare scam? Yet the same idiots that told us what we needed to do then, having been proven wrong now, are still telling us what we should do next.

@10:02 aAM changing the state flag didn’t change yalls ignorance and bigotry as evidenced by the rankin County Goon Squad

Sid has always been big government. Sid has never met a Chinese financed budget deficit he didn't like. Sid has always seen more government as the answer.

Sidney has a (big gov't) plan for the gray hairs: will he call it geronticide, senicide, granny dumping, attestupa (dropping from a cliff), Plan 75; how will it be administered? Free Kevorkian kits? What are Sidney's own personal plans in that regard? Asking for a demented, wobbly old journalist of a local newspaper.

Not showing up on time, poor work ethic, demanding $25/hr with $2.50/hr skill set?

Preventable. Start working for starter wages at 14, summers and after school.