Gov. Rick Scott's Florida Budget a Tea Party Dream

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That's the great thing about the USA. If you don't like Florida, Go back to Maryland.

Pete of FL 8:32AM November 08, 2011

I truly wish that the House speaker will stop saying health reform is unpopular, as it not. The majority of the people like it or wish for even a stronger bill. When will the American people stop letting the Republicans define the narrative? It appears that the Republicans are saying two sides of the story, super in favor of it, until Obama intervenes, and once he intervenes they don't want it. They are a funny group.

Laurie of FL 10:10PM March 23, 2011

What a crock of hubris!

K.D. Heinly of FL 5:02PM March 13, 2011

The people of Florida are getting just what they asked for by not getting out to vote for Alex Sink. What did you think this crook was going to do, be fair? No, he is a tea party republican through and through. You will get more from this crook in months to come. Racism is alive in Florida and moving the middle class
to welfare and slave labor. I am from Maryland and had make the biggest mistake in moving to Orlando, Florida. I stepped back twenty years by moving here. There maybe sun and warm weather but that is it. Put Florida last on your list of places to move.

West of FL 5:50PM February 18, 2011

Um, no he didn't come out of nowhere. In his previous professional life, he settled for defrauding the federal government and medicare. He's a man of questionable character (and that's putting it favorably) and should not have been elected. To imply as this post does Florida's economy is a model for the nation is wrong. The truth is it's shriveling up and will continue to do so under Scott.

Adam of NY 8:37AM February 16, 2011

What mandate? The dude won less than half the vote.

Matt of FL 10:09PM February 14, 2011

you are not doing what you said in your campaign you are protecting the rich, and , slaming the working class, and the poor into the ground. you make sure your rich friends keep all they have. and take from ones who really need it. so what kind of govenor are you. you are not for all the people of fla. you just lied. but what can we expect from someone who took the fifth 75 times. do you have an answer. shirley from fla.

shirley of FL 11:48AM February 11, 2011

Thank you Gov. Scott.
As a Floridian, I have been disgusted with the ever increasing sense of entitlement that has crept into the mindset of most of the citizenry here. It is long overdue that we, as individuals, take responsibilty for our own destiny. Government has proven time and again that it does nothing efficiently. I have great hope that Florida will be able to pull herself out of the morass that she finds herself in currently...Gov. Scott is off to a good start.

W. K. Weitz of FL 10:32AM February 10, 2011

"Jerry Brown would cut pensions if elected governor"
Fri Sep-03-10 11:37 PM by mike r
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
"Jerry Brown said Friday that if elected governor he would have to "do things that labor doesn't like," including cutting pension benefits for public employees and asking labor leaders to "put everything on the table" to get California's bloated budget under control."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4528345

Bill Hedges of MO 9:51PM February 09, 2011

Thanks to Mr. Roff, U.S. News & World Report has lost all credibility in my eyes. Talk about a sugar coated article. It REALLY does sound like Scott is doing the responsible thing for Florida.
mmmmmmmmmm no mention of the fact that most state employees accepted their salaries many years ago, based on the promise of the Florida State Pension and have planned their entire lives around that financial assistance in retirement. No mention of the $700 a year per student that he plans to cut in school funding. This is an area he steadfastly said would not have budget cuts regardless of the loss of current federal stimulus funding which has kept most school districts afloat in the past fiscal year. School funding is supported heavily by property taxes which have diminished due to loss in property values. Hey, let's cut it some more! Where is the logic? Can the average citizen of Florida really want to save $50 or $100 at the expense of the children of Florida? I don't believe so. Oh, and by the way, no mention of Florida Lotto revenues that were to fund education, or so we thought when we voted it in!
I'm still asking myself why anyone would spend millions of their own money to fund their political campaign. My only hope is that the complacent citizens of Florida who didn't vote on the assumption that Scott could never get elected wake up and smell the roses.

Don DeRyke of FL 6:49PM February 09, 2011