Jindal Response
- Thread starter THE PVAMU
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One should be very careful when they criticize government while they or some members of their family have benifited directly from it. Be careful. Be very careful.
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Bobby Jindal
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Personal life
Piyush Jindal was born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Punjabi Indian immigrants Amar and Raj Jindal, who had recently arrived for Amar to attend graduate school at Louisiana State University. His father, Amar, left India and his ancestral family village of Khanpura in 1970 and his parents took their citizenship oaths later that year to become naturalized citizens. His mother, Raj, is an information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor. According to family lore, Jindal chose to re-name himself "Bobby" inspired by the sitcom character Bobby Brady after watching The Brady Bunch television series at age four. He has been known by his adopted nickname ever since—as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer—though legally his name remains Piyush Jindal.
Jindal was born and raised a Hindu, but converted to Catholicism in high school. Jindal's Catholic faith includes a commitment to outreach to other Christian denominations; he has given speeches and offered religious testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations. He attended public school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. Following high school, Jindal attended Brown University, graduating with honors in biology and public policy. Although he had thought of a career in medicine or law and was accepted by Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, he chose to pursue a political career. He received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar.
After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, where he advised Fortune 500 companies.
In 1996 Jindal married Supriya Jolly (born 1972). The couple has three children: Selia Elizabeth, Shaan Robert, and Slade Ryan.
Government service
In 1993 Republican U.S. Representative Jim McCrery (for whom Jindal had once worked as a summer intern) introduced Jindal to Republican Governor Mike Foster. In 1996 Foster appointed Jindal to be secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, an agency which then represented about 40 percent of the state budget. During his tenure as secretary, Louisiana's Medicaid program went from bankruptcy with a $400 million deficit into three years of surpluses totaling $220 million. Jindal was criticized during the 2007 campaign by the Louisiana AFL-CIO for having closed some local clinics to balance the budget. In 1998, Jindal was appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, a 17-member panel charged with devising plans to reform Medicare.
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Congressman of the first district
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Bobby Jindal
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Personal life
Piyush Jindal was born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Punjabi Indian immigrants Amar and Raj Jindal, who had recently arrived for Amar to attend graduate school at Louisiana State University. His father, Amar, left India and his ancestral family village of Khanpura in 1970 and his parents took their citizenship oaths later that year to become naturalized citizens. His mother, Raj, is an information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor. According to family lore, Jindal chose to re-name himself "Bobby" inspired by the sitcom character Bobby Brady after watching The Brady Bunch television series at age four. He has been known by his adopted nickname ever since—as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer—though legally his name remains Piyush Jindal.
Jindal was born and raised a Hindu, but converted to Catholicism in high school. Jindal's Catholic faith includes a commitment to outreach to other Christian denominations; he has given speeches and offered religious testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations. He attended public school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. Following high school, Jindal attended Brown University, graduating with honors in biology and public policy. Although he had thought of a career in medicine or law and was accepted by Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, he chose to pursue a political career. He received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar.
After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, where he advised Fortune 500 companies.
In 1996 Jindal married Supriya Jolly (born 1972). The couple has three children: Selia Elizabeth, Shaan Robert, and Slade Ryan.
Government service
In 1993 Republican U.S. Representative Jim McCrery (for whom Jindal had once worked as a summer intern) introduced Jindal to Republican Governor Mike Foster. In 1996 Foster appointed Jindal to be secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, an agency which then represented about 40 percent of the state budget. During his tenure as secretary, Louisiana's Medicaid program went from bankruptcy with a $400 million deficit into three years of surpluses totaling $220 million. Jindal was criticized during the 2007 campaign by the Louisiana AFL-CIO for having closed some local clinics to balance the budget. In 1998, Jindal was appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, a 17-member panel charged with devising plans to reform Medicare.
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Congressman of the first district
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Seeing Spots
Joyful Woman!
He's an idiot and embarrassment.
Seeing Spots
Joyful Woman!
:emlaugh: fell out!
hey, the 401(K)-Y Jelly float is wild!!! It must have been at the Spanish Town Parade. They are all the way live. :lol:
bluedog
"Leader of Kings"
you got to be kidding me!!!
silentrage
Delta Girl
I wasn't impressed with Jindal at all. His cadence was very condescending to me, as one twitter response tweeted, he sounded like Mr. Rogers.
Did he listen to Obama's speech? NOT! I know that Jindal's speech was written prior to hearing the address to Congress, but could he have ad libbed a bit as if he really listened to what Obama had to say? Would that have been too much to ask?
Did he listen to Obama's speech? NOT! I know that Jindal's speech was written prior to hearing the address to Congress, but could he have ad libbed a bit as if he really listened to what Obama had to say? Would that have been too much to ask?
Jax
Chief Trolling offICEr
Having worked with Sells... that's him. I was glad the producers let him give a brief commentary. Also...is it me or did he(Jindal) repeat some of the same things Pres. Obama said? Also...he was fumbling and bumbling at first and he also sounded like Mr Rogers at the beginning? :lol:
Jax
Chief Trolling offICEr
CEE...I got a couple of texts from out of town folks I know as soon as Jindal started. All I could do was :smh: I told my cousin who lives in Cali. I ain't vote for him.
Jax
Chief Trolling offICEr
True. Sells made sure he emphatically pointed that out so, once agaon, it was not a good day for the GOP. Steele better come up with something quick.
:topic:
BTW...Steele is gonna be on the State of Black America this weekend(2-28) on
C-SPan.
Dr. Mac
Player
The mic was still open on the MSNBC telecast when he walked in. Someone yelled an astonished "Oh, God" when he appeared. He looked like "death on a soda cracker" as my aunt would say, and sounded twice as bad. I think he shot himself in the foot for '12. Republicans recycle, so he will get another turn later in life.
While I love my home state, y'all keep Jindal there and away from the rest of the world.
Regards.
THE PVAMU
Oh Shaela'.....
LOL....I bet Chris Matthews was the one that said "Oh God".......:lmao::lmao:
Click to See Jindal Intro
Click to See Jindal Intro
Usually, the opposing party's response is not the fire and brimstone type of speeches. The problem with what Jindal has to deal with last night is that the republican party and conservative ideology is bankrupt. It has zero credibility. Taxes for the rich, trickle down economics, jobs going overseas, multiple benefits for corporations and other things have hurt this country deeply. We have had too much of the conservative based economics for the last 28 years. (Sure, I preferred Clinton's years over Reagan and the Bushes, but he made a mistake with NAFTA, the telecommunications act, and the repeal of Glass-Stegal. Welfare reform is not as good as it is made out to be.) The president stated a few things in his speech last night. (It is hard to go into many details in a speech like that.) If the democrats are smart and sometimes they are not, they will first pass and sign pro middle income, working class, and lower income legislation. Then they will destroy the conservative ideology of economics for the wealthy.
Dr. Mac
Player
I viewed your link. I agree, it sounds like Chris :lol: (who, coincidently, did his peace corp training, as a young man, on the Leland (for Leland College - Eddie Roberson's and my mother's school) in Baker, Louisiana, a city 5 miles north of Baton Rouge).
Regards.
Dr. Mac
Player
Listen closely, or crank up your speakers: you can hear folks in the background start to laugh just after the person utters the "Oh, God.":lol:
Regards.
cat daddy
Active Member
I wouldn't be so quick as to say his career is over. History teaches us that people can and do bounce back. Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton was introduced to the nation at the democratic convention in 1988. He gave a dull speech and many politicos didn't think a country boy like him could win the White House.
Jax
Chief Trolling offICEr
Man let sleeping dogs lie! :lol:
Let me go back to what I said earlier. If they can fool enough people continously with these policies, then they are better at PR than I think they are. However, I think that Michael Steele is not a help to the GOP and feel that way more and more as I learn more about him.
Republicans need to save us with the notion that if the republicans stuck with the vision and philosophy of Ronald Reagan that the GOP would not be in the trouble that they are in now. Reagan's policies and philosophy were the problem. It is that more people who voted recognized that now.
The problem with Jindal last night and the republicans in general is their pro corporate policies. They are a disaster. With the disaster that the latest deregulation has created in banking especially, there is nothing that Jindal could have said last night. I compare his situation to a coach with players of lesser talent going up against a team with more talent. Sure, sometimes the more talented team wins, but usually the more talented team wins, and coaches want as many good players that they can get.
Jindal talked about our kids paying off the debt. Well, he must have forgotten what Reagan's policies did in during the '80s and what the Bushes have done also. Their policies make it necessary for generations of us and younger to pay off these debts (national, budget, and trade). He talked about the government and Katrina. He forgot to tell everyone that it was the government's job to fix the Gulf Coast. He forgot to tell everyone that it was his party in the executive and legislative branches was in power during Katrina.
Then again it is hard to keep defending bankrupt policies. (Note. Some democrats in the DLC support some of these policies, and we must call them out too.) Even people with a silver tongue cannot keep doing it. (I do not have a silver tongue.) The republican party's and conservative philosophy are holding them back now and will keep on doing so. The democrats must see this and slam the door on the conservative economic philosophy. (I still wonder about the dems.) As long as the policies are bankrupt, there is not much that they, including Jindal, can do.
Republicans need to save us with the notion that if the republicans stuck with the vision and philosophy of Ronald Reagan that the GOP would not be in the trouble that they are in now. Reagan's policies and philosophy were the problem. It is that more people who voted recognized that now.
The problem with Jindal last night and the republicans in general is their pro corporate policies. They are a disaster. With the disaster that the latest deregulation has created in banking especially, there is nothing that Jindal could have said last night. I compare his situation to a coach with players of lesser talent going up against a team with more talent. Sure, sometimes the more talented team wins, but usually the more talented team wins, and coaches want as many good players that they can get.
Jindal talked about our kids paying off the debt. Well, he must have forgotten what Reagan's policies did in during the '80s and what the Bushes have done also. Their policies make it necessary for generations of us and younger to pay off these debts (national, budget, and trade). He talked about the government and Katrina. He forgot to tell everyone that it was the government's job to fix the Gulf Coast. He forgot to tell everyone that it was his party in the executive and legislative branches was in power during Katrina.
Then again it is hard to keep defending bankrupt policies. (Note. Some democrats in the DLC support some of these policies, and we must call them out too.) Even people with a silver tongue cannot keep doing it. (I do not have a silver tongue.) The republican party's and conservative philosophy are holding them back now and will keep on doing so. The democrats must see this and slam the door on the conservative economic philosophy. (I still wonder about the dems.) As long as the policies are bankrupt, there is not much that they, including Jindal, can do.