The Herald says Florida lost 74,700 jobs:"At the heart of the problem is the falling housing market, upon which Florida's economy has a Monopoly game-like reliance."
Governor Crist's Economist, Clyde Diao said "...if you count the District of Columbia, we're 51." Economists project a 78% decrease in housing construction in Florida since 2005.
Remember, growth gone wild in our body is called cancer. Maybe an economy based on growth is unhealtly and we can see it in the statistics now.
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Beautifully said. Construction jobs have comprised a large sector of our jobs market, but these are not sustainable jobs. Once we have built a sea of homes in western Dade County, what will we do when there aren't enough jobs to support those communities? We are hooked on construction like a junkie is hooked on crack. We need to move on and look at other sectors of the jobs market.
One of our most successful industries is agriculture. We are number one in the state in nurseries (second in the country) and the bread basket of the country for winter food crops. Many of our tropical fruits won't grow any place else in the country. But agriculture has never gotten much help from a government hell bent on protecting construction, rock mining and tourism. How about doing something to protect, develop and promote our most important and stable industry. The problem is, in order to promote agriculture it is necessary to discourage paving farmland. Who do you think wins that battle?
Hmmm. I think we know the answer to that.
I think that little fishies swimming in rock pits are an attractive reason to sell me a house. However, I suspect that if the little fishies start swimming up-side-down, I am going to be rather nervous about drinking the water from the well in my yard next to the septic drain field.
Do you think the culligan man will cart water out there near to the Everglades? I will need a tanker truck though, I don't think I can stand showering in that up-side-down fish water either. Wonder if he will drive it in or bring it by rail. The clicky-clack of rail cars are sorta romantic don't you think?
But actually, I guess that once Parkland gets a water plant or something to keep them in water, so they can take showers (can you imagine 6000 households with NO showers? whew.) we can tap into their lines, and we will not need imported water after all. Life just has a way of working out for some of us. :o)
you know you have spent too much time here when you can tell who the anons are that are posting. I need to get a life.
Crist is looking in Europe for jobs. Someone ought to give him some ruby shoes and tell him to click them, and then drive down to Homestead.
"There's no place like home"
What is with this comment...I need to get a life. What exactly does that mean? Because you read a blog you don't have a life? I think the people not reading should go get a life.
I have a life, but no money.
I think I need to go encourage my commissioner to build some more houses, so I can have a job.
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