Neoliberalism Economic Policy and the Collapse of the Public Sector
How the Jindal Administration Allowed It to Happen—2008 to 2016
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Following in former President Ronald Reagan's footsteps, the Neo-Liberalism Economic Policy lessons learned from the former regarding how to grow the economy,at the expense of the public sector, were applied in Louisiana, beginning in 2008. To replicate the Reagan Neo-Liberalism Economic Policy Model in Louisiana, an individual had to be selected/elected to pull it off. Mr. Bobby Jindal was groomed for the job when he was appointed to serve as head of the Louisiana State Colleges and Universities System at a very young age. Then Louisiana Governor, Mike Forster, once said Mr. Bobby Jindal was the smartest man he had ever known. In addition, Mr. Bobby Jindal left this position, and was appointed to another high level federal government position in the Bush Administration. With his meteoric rise in political stature secured, his qualifications to be governor quickly became a non-issue, and, as a result of his "political grooming," he easily won the 2007 Louisiana Gubernatorial Election as planned by his neo-liberalism benefactors. The Louisiana Public sector was seldom mentioned during Mr. Bobby Jindal's Gubernatorial Campaign; however, the Reagan Neo-Liberalism Economic Policy Model was prepared before the governor's race for implementation once it was over. By 2008, the greatest transfer of Louisiana Taxpayers Dollars was engineered carefully through the hallowed halls of the Louisiana Legislature, first in the form of House and Senate Bills, and shortly thereafter as tax breaks, massive budget cuts, and privatization of formerly operated state government social programs.
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My book demonstrates how classical liberalism was the foundation upon which Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and others wrote the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and the Bills of Rights; however, it was rolled back by 1980 and replaced with neoliberalism, which was championed by the Reagan Administration. In short, this ideology has one main aim, and that is to shrink government, cut the budgets of social programs, and give away billions of taxpayer dollars to private business in the form of tax breaks. During the Jindal administration and by the end of its first term, more than $7 billion worth of tax breaks had been given away to private business. A surplus of $1 billion left in the Louisiana treasury by outgoing governor Kathleen Blanco after Hurricane Katrina was given away by the end of the first two months of its first term. Today, the Louisiana legislature is currently facing a $650 million fiscal cliff, and no doubt, more budget cuts are in store for the Louisiana public sector.
About the Author
I earned my Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1977 with an emphasis on historical, economic, geographical, and urban problems. For more than 40 years, I have been engaged in socio-economic and political research. During this period, I have championed the working man and woman’s position in our class society. He or she will be excited to learn someone is aware of their social and economic challenges, and he/she will be happy to learn that the economic system does not always work on their behalf. My voice is not the conventional, stuffy, and routing apologetic one of conservatism, but, to the contrary, he or she will gain new insight into the inner workings of state government, namely, how it purports to solve his or her problems without much results. I retired in 2012 having achieved the rank of full professor.