Jindal Blasts Critics Who Say “We Can’t Kill Our Way Out of This Budget Shortfall”

In a news conference outside the White House today, Gov. Bobby Jindal slammed his detractors who insist state leaders cannot fix Louisiana’s current budget woes solely with a slash-and-burn strategy.

The Republican addressed a growing bipartisan chorus of critics panning Jindal’s revenue-neutral proposals to deal with the state’s looming $1.6 billion fiscal shortfall.

“There are those who say we can’t kill our way out of this budget shortfall, that we can eliminate the problem by raising taxes and fees,” Jindal remarked. “That’s a very naïve fiscal view that doesn’t address the root problems of radical poverty and higher education extremism.”

His detractors in the legislature should help to “eliminate the growing number of indigent extremists who are bankrupting our health care system.”

Jindal rebuffed his naysayers, proclaiming, “We need a leader bold enough to take the steps necessary to defeat the spread of the extreme poor and destroy the threat posed by the radical educated in Louisiana.”

The likely presidential hopeful said that rather than criticize him, his detractors in the legislature should help to “eliminate the growing number of indigent extremists who are bankrupting our health care system,” as well as “destroy institutions of higher education churning out radical free-thinkers,” whom Jindal described as an increasing threat to right-wing Republicans like himself.

Jindal blamed much of the criticism aimed at him on “people’s unwillingness to call out radical indigent terrorism and egghead extremism.”