Governor Rick Scott has been taking heat for both trying to repeal the Florida law that would monitor pill mills and for stripping funds from homeless programs. Well I have a solution for you Rick.
It said in the Miami Herald Tuesday that people are coming here from Kentucky to buy pills. Let's include a couple of homeless people with each pill purchase and require that the buyers take the homeless back to Kentucky with them -- or no pills. Do we really care if we supply druggies as long as they go back out of State?
Stupid? Not as stupid as Rick Scott's governing.
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Did you see he turned down a $2.4 billion federal grant for high speed rail? There would have been jobs generated. What is his gripe?
I actually agree with Scott on the High Speed Rail. If you really look at it, who does it benefit? Orlando & Tampa but the entire State would be on the hook for any losses. One peak at Amtrak's annual losses (which the entire Country pays for) is enough for me.
Jobs? Really? I'd like to see more private sector jobs, not government funded/subsidized.
And, while we're at it, too bad Scott won't go as far as Wisconsin has in their pending legislation regarding collective bargaining
with Unions being abolished.
No, I didn't vote for Scott and think he's a total moron in regard to the Pill Mills and I agree with this morning's EoM premise on the issue.
To further, I think he's setting Florida up for another environmental disaster and over development saturation!
If the Government really, really needs to get involved in job creation, why not put the Everglades Restoration projects first! That will put both skilled and unskilled people to work - immediately!
If the Bullet Train reached Miami, I would totally support it.
A lot more people would take vacations to Disney; no driving; saves gas; no tolls; no extra mileage on car; safety, etc. I would certainly take it.
In regards to the bullet train, the idea was that after Tampa-Orlando leg that Miami-Orlando would be linked up as memory serves. It might not work at first but build a inter-city network and it would.
That said, Rick Scott's a scumbag (repeat it to yourself, it's therapuetic!).
Rick Scott's stock jumped in my book yesterday when he made that announcement.
I challenge anyone to find me the person who saw the need to run a stupid train parallel to the I-4 Corridor before this "risky scheme' was proposed.
This is government at its worse. Command and Control. If they were in charge of IPhones, AT&T would still be the only service provider & I would not be getting upgrade offers from AT&T to stick with them.
It hurts to acknowledge it and your lifestyle is a result of it, but CAPITALISM works!
This man is downright dangerous. First, he proposes to decimate the Florida Retirement System one of most successful, fiscally sound pension systems for working class folks in this country that provides retirement benefits for almost 1 million people in this state. Then, he offends and alienates black legislators at a luncheon by saying he understands their needs as he too grew up poor and in the projects like them. Now he wants to turn 2.4 billion dollars that would put tens of thousands of unemployed Floridians back to work. You gotta be kidding me, who voted for this idiot? This guy is about to do more harm than Florida can withstand. Join the "RECALL RICK SCOTT" movement on facebook.com.
I don't think they're going out of state, that's part of the problem.
Regardless, there are a lot of homeless people in this city. The difference between Brickell and Downtown Miami is almost alarming. There's a homeless person on every block and as you go north, it only gets worse.
People are going to abuse drugs no matter what. Creating a prescription registry is not going to fix anything.
To the "Recall Rick" person. I'm one of the majority of the US, non Union workers(88% approx) who work in the private sector. When my employer and others private employers fund my retirement 100%, and keep me employed when I have low job performance (like the Unions bully the politicians to do), I don't care how "well funded" it is, you're living off of my hard work and it's wrong.
This isn't the 60's anymore when worker's rights/wages needed the Unions. Now the Union's are rightfully being villified for the outragous salary/benefit packages off the taxpayers in the private sector who don't have the same dream jobs at higher salary's than the private sector (except our class room teachers still get screwed but their "administrators" who get well taken care of).
I would consider supporting getting rid of Scott, I don't like him and didn't vote for him, but I support him doing a Reagan "Union" busting 100%. It's time public employees payed their way in to their own retirement, why should I?
What's happening with the march in Tallahassee on March 8th? Is there anyone organizing buses, etc. here in Miami?
If there was only one thing this guy is doing to harm our state, then it might be okay; but, he's doing so many different things that he is offensive to many, many people. It's time we got to work and get rid of him. Don't defend one idea here and one there. How's that overall package looking to you?
1. Sending back to the Feds the money to create a database so we can compare health care plans and see how the premiums are being spent.
2 Lifting pollution limits. Can't wait to go to beach or take a canoe trip.
3. You really trust him with the money that's already in the retirement fund? When Jeb got that money, he invested in Enron and we all know what happened there.
4. New York and California have already lined up for the Railroad money. Do you think that they deserve those jobs more than we do?
These are our tax dollars, people. These programs are already funded. He is rejecting money that you and I have already paid for. He's gotta go!
On the way to the Tallahassee rally, maybe we can drop a bunch of homeless people off on his street in Naples. Let them eat cake!
To Anon above, I'm sorry you are so ill informed and perhaps sounding more jealous than anything else. I will agree w/ you that problem, unproductive employees seem to linger under far too many protective umbrellas but, unfortunatley those people can be found everywhere. My employer does not pay for my retirement, I do, in the form of a lower salary. Now they want to lower my salary even more by making me contribute more funds from my paycheck. This entire country lives off your and my hard work, it's what a democratic society is all about. You should be more concerned with national issues like Medicare fraud and underfunding Social Security than the meager pension benefits us state and municipal employees. The Florida Retirement Pension's obligations are only 1% of the entire state budget and are 100% funded for it's nearly 1 million members. Many other states how have become taxpayer supported because of mismanagement and would agree with you, thats not fair. Please educate yourself before you post.
Please educate me! It appears you agree and disagree all in the same post. This is why I love this blog and the comments.
Here's what I'd like to know last anon:
Why should 1% of the State Budget go to fund your pensions?
When you say you took a pay cut - the problem is, you don't say what your salary was or is or what you do? How can we compare to the private sector - which is where I'm going with all of this.
The problem with the bad worker issue, is that the private sector pays for them, not the public. If there's a bad worker on the public dollar - there's a huge problem, the tax payer pays. That's apples/oranges to me.
I pay in to Medicare and Social Security dearly. I really resent people saying they're "entitlements" because, by law, they're taken out of my paycheck. It's my money I put in. If I were to not pay in to the system, then I wouldn't have any expectations. As long as the Feds keep taking my money for these programs, which to me are like a huge ponzi scheme because they use the funds for "whatever", it's just wrong.
MY POST was a satirical look at 2 items dogging Scott, the defunding of homeless programs and the Pill Mill law that Scott wants to chuck. I melded the two together. What is so tough to understand?? If you all want to go off on tangents in comments just remember that THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE POST. Leave me out of it...and all your musing of what I am doing.
If the Feds thought the funding was so important to Florida, why wouldn't they just give the high speed rail money to the state and do with it what we wish?
Homes for homeless guy downtown, fix broken roads, hirer more school administrators and decrease the amount of $ they contribute to pensions and healthcare.
Now the Herald says that Rick Scott might have presidential 2012 ambitions!!! I read it this morning, coffee spit out my nose. I fell over backward in my chair, fell into a coma, and it took 20 minutes for my wife to resusitate me with smelling salts.
If there's one thing you can say about Scott, it's that he's got chutzpah.
I still go with the original premise of all of this, if you come to Florida to shop pill mills, take a homeless person with you back to wherever you came from. To take it further, if you decide to stay here, living in oblivion, let the homeless person stay with you to help you shop!
Yea, that works for me!
Have a good weekend everyone! I can make some Ron Book jokes about the "special meters" to donate to the homeless (after expenses, of course)!
Hard workers, in public and private sectors alike, are holding on by their fingernails to their values, the nobleness of serving, and of contributing rather than sucking resources. There is an endemic problem here in MDC. It is called immigration. Legally or illegally, people come to Miami and learn to have car accidents, get pregnant and receive Medicaid and the best medical care, food stamps and other freebies, including publix evaporated milk. Many are upwardly mobile, often the owners of Medicare/Medicaid clinics that end up in the news for fraud after defrauding millions of dollars from these programs, never to be recovered. Meanwhile, the real lovers of the values embodied by American culture, plow away, nose to the grind, to contribute to our community and this country. Just as benefits and rights are being taken from public school teachers across the country, perhaps residency and citizenship requirements need to be amended. Is it too unfair to require that people not of this country show us first what they can do for our country instead of us showing them what our country can do for them?
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