Jindal won't let Louisianans get stimulus money

Well, you lost your job. That's bad enough.

But you better hope you don't live in Louisiana - where right-wing Gov. Bobby Jindal is declining stimulus money that would have expanded unemployment insurance coverage.

To put it in more straightforward terms, you won't be getting unemployment coverage, because Jindal has decided not to let you have it - even though your tax dollars paid for the stimulus package.

The money is supposed to be there for you, but he won't let you have it.

More plain old Republican meanness. That's all it is. Jindal can come up with every excuse in the book for his edict, but it boils down to his desire to throw his weight around.

We've seen this attitude before with Phil Gramm, George Allen, and a certain George W. Bush. I'm also reminded of when Tommy Thompson pulled Wisconsin out of federal antipoverty programs.

Right-wing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he's likely to follow Jindal's "lead." (Shocker!) Barbour's excuse is that he claims accepting the unemployment funds will force him to raise taxes later, but he never explains why. Besides, if that's his concern, he's a hypocrite - because it was Barbour who vetoed a bill that would have slashed Misssissippi's exorbitant tax on food.

In other words, Barbour is worried about taxing the rich, even as he allows the poor to be taxed back to the Stone Age.

Is there any doubt about the modern GOP's deliberate meanness?

(Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19092.html)