events was this guy. bobby jindal. he was the governor of louisiana for the past eight years. when he came in as governor in the first place, the state had big budget surpluses. by the end of his first year in office, that was over. thanks to his economic genius about how to run the state. every year after, the state went deeper and deeper into a financial hole. his policies were such a financial catastrophe, by the time he was running for president last year, promising to do to the united states what he did to his home state. by last year, one of the big ideas the bobby jindal administration came up with to scrounge up money somewhere to run the statement government was to start selling off the cars used by the state government.