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SHREVEPORT, La. -- Latasha Thomas hopes she doesn't have to call the Oak Meadows apartments home much longer. Thomas has received a voucher from Community Support Programs Inc., to cover

During the 2005 budget reconciliation debate, critics trotted outthe tired old myth that Republi­cans were cutting spending forthe poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Many commentatorsaccepted this as truth and repeated it, including Washington Postcolumnist E. J. Dionne, who accused the Republicans of passing a"cut-from-the-poor, give-to-the-rich budget."

In this section, we highlight selected cases of judgment debts to illustrate the extent to which negligence, blatant disregard for public procurement laws, and illegal abrogation of contracts by public officials in their line of duty leads to judgment debt awards against the State and results in the payment of huge sums from the public coffers.