By now everyone should know the drill, some Hollywood celebrity flies into the area to pick up a taxpayer funded welfare check, films a few scenes and immediately flies the heck out (Mississippi / State of Louisiana in general) or sticks around and goes on a bender in the French Quarter (New Orleans). Either way when word gets out that a celeb. is in town to pick up their welfare check the local media is quick to fawn. It is against that backdrop that when a heavyweight reporter like Karen Nelson is assigned to write a story about Hugh Jackman filming a few taxpayer funded movie scenes at Michoud, something snapped inside and a twitter poll was born:
Who gives a shit Hugh Jackman flew into to NOLA to film a few scenes for a welfare check from the state of LA?
— Slabbed New Media (@SlabbedNewMedia) May 23, 2016
Frankly the poll results, nonscientific as they are warmed the cockles of my heart. Had I been able to vote in the Slabbed poll I would have gone second option but what is clear is the majority of you that took time to vote know exactly what the score is:
When a celebrity is in town, your tax money is being pissed down the drain. In a perfect world the media would not be cheer leading that sad fact.
The RFP is out for engineering management services pertaining to the Restore Act money. Some think the selection has already been decided by the shadow powers that have the ability to place who they want in this crucial position. As we know from past experiences these large pools of money get the schemers scheming and the BP money is already being proposed to be used for everything but restoring the marine environment. Watch this selection process. All money spending decisions flow through the hands of the men who get this contract.