2023 Move in weekend

[CajunGrad16]

16-17k freshmen? Not a chance

Total not just freshman lol

[CajunT]

Jeff (and every other gubernatorial candidate running) said Medicaid Expansion is a good thing (the state is only on the hook for 10%). Maybe capital outlay budget wouldn't have taken such a huge hit if didn't let a temporary sales tax expire (0.45% of the state sales tax expiring, losing out on $550 million in tax revenue), also easing up on O&G severance tax.

We can't cut taxes and then complain that we can't get nice things because our previous governor was a democrat.

P.S. I hope the guys trying to write our new state constitution in secret aren't successful, because we can all kiss our homestead exemption goodbye.

Is that why he and the legislature have reduced Medicaid roles since January? None of them are being honest about Medicaid including the previous Govenor.

In LA, the federal government pays 68% of the cost of traditional Medicaid. The federal government paid 90% of the cost of the Medicaid Expansion, which has been reduced by 10% as you have rightfully stated.

Now in 2017 the expansion of Medicaid began under Edwards, buy the end of the year there were 1.4 million Louisiana residents were on Medicaid. And he increased that each year for a number of years.

So, what does that 10% increase translate to in actual dollars? That's hard to know without actually knowing the budget deficit we face. I've heard different numbers, but no one wants to tell us, the citizens what those figures look like.

But under Jindal Medicaid Expansion would cost $1.4B had he accepted the expansion at the time.

As for our previous Govenor, he was added by the Recovery ACT and FEMA money from two Major Hurricanes in Lake Charles. All of the money was Federal Dollars that aided his budget. Once that money is spent, it's gone.

[zephyr]

Total not just freshman lol

I was gonna say,, Georgia just brought in a little over 6,000 freshmen in this class and we aint Georgia

[R1Letterman]

I was gonna say,, Georgia just brought in a little over 6,000 freshmen in this class and we aint Georgia

But a much higher percentage of our new freshman have a chance to go to as many games as they want to, than those 6000 will at uga

[KajunKrazy]

1st home game is usually the most attended by students then it dies off. We have to find a way to keep them engaged.

It usually dies because the administration runs them off.

[R1Letterman]

Dont let them move out of the extended stay unless they show four game ticket stubs

[R1Letterman]

I dont remember needing the street blocked off to move in, what is up with this generation

[KajunKrazy]

From the article: "Lafayette’s outgoing legislative delegation secured $75 million in 2023. That dropped to less than $10 million in the current budget."

I think we can thank the LA legislature and our current governor instead.

No it is not the current governor that you would want to thank. Everyone knew before he was elected that the La budget was about to face huge short falls over the next 2 fiscal years. This article was written in January just a couple weeks after the Landry inauguration. He didn’t create that in 2 weeks.

https://www.brproud.com/news/politic...-first-budget/

[ZoomZoom]

As for our previous Governors, they were aided by the Recovery ACT and FEMA money from two Major Hurricanes in Lake Charles. All of the money was Federal Dollars that aided his budget. Once that money is spent, it's gone.

Louisiana has been fumbling thru federal grant money for decades. Katrina/Rita, Ike/Gustav, 2016 flood events, Ida/Laura/Delta and Covid money. JBE still had disaster money, surplus was originally booked to fund the 90/Ambassador interchange but got yanked right after JBE was reelected.

At some point we’ll have a run of no disasters and things will get real tight. Louisiana needs to pick their poison if a new constitution is written. Property taxes or sales taxes AND tort reform. Hard to put the burden on businesses, they’ll just pick up and leave like they’re already doing with legacy lawsuits. The average Joe doesn’t realize out of state investors sink millions into Louisiana trial lawyers because they get a good ROI.

[CajunRebel]

I dont remember needing the street blocked off to move in, what is up with this generation

Nothing is up.

There are more students living on campus now and UL has a good process in place to get them all moved in over 2 days.

Imagine the cluster____ of 3,000+ students and their families trying unload a dorm room worth of stuff with no process in place.