Rick Scott in Florida is about to bring those who voted for him to their knees. Well deserved!

[mfcorey1]

BY MARC CAPUTO AND STEVE BOUSQUET
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
EUSTIS – At a highly partisan tea-party event on Monday, Gov. Rick Scott unveiled his first budget proposal, one that makes sweeping changes to state government by slashing billions in taxes and spending.

Scott proposed spending almost $66 billion — $4.6 billion less than this year’s budget. Scott also wants to eliminate 7 percent of the state’s government jobs, which would mean about 6,700 state-worker layoffs. He wants even more cuts the following year.



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[tabatha]

1. Watch the state go down the tubes.

[FLyellowdog]

4. Too late,,,already gone. nt

[bullimiami]

16. Eggsactly

[movonne]

2. It is all in the repugs plan...bring the states down and corporations

will buy all the public property ....

[SpiralHawk]

13. ...drown government in the bathtub...then

...privatize everything.

You will have to pay tribute to corporations then,,,

REPUBLICORP UBER ALLES

[Dappleganger]

3. Scott proposes $3.3 bill cut to education

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2011/02/scott-proposes-3-3-bill-cut-to-education.html


So many places have stopped the buses, cut back school hours and fired teachers. I have no idea what rocks he intends to extract blood from this time.

[Dappleganger]

5. BTW, over 2.5 million people voted for someone else.

So this Floridian doesn't appreciate the "well deserved" sentiment one bit--WE have to live with it and YES we voted!

[givemebackmycountry]

6. No shit...

I'm one of 'em.

[Dappleganger]

7. Yes, I'm just sick of this mentality that we got what we deserve...

:mad:

[mfcorey1]

8. Obviously, it meant those who voted for him. nt

[JCMach1]

12. +1

[DrDan]

14. +1000

[remember2000forever]

15. AMEN ! Lot's Of Us Voted For Alex Sink!

And just for the DU record..... Lot's of folks here poo-pooed our last governor, Charley Crist, just because he was a Republican. As a Floridian,I can tell you, Mr. Crist was an angel compared to this guy.

[DCBob]

17. Many on the left bashed Crist and anyone who suggested he might be better than Rubio..

Now Florida has a ruthless teabagger lunatic senator to work hand-in-hand with a like-minded governor. Fools.

edit: typo.

[DonCoquixote]

9. He's also cutting public parks

So that the same people that complain that the Yankees ruined everything will watch parkland turned into Walmarts.

[csziggy]

10. Closing parks in a tourist state is insane

But then, Jeb cut the budget for promoting tourism at state parks so now Scott can justify closings because there are fewer visitors.

[JCMach1]

11. Not to mention privatizing and raising admissions prices...

[MinneapolisMatt]

18. I'm sorry Floridians.

This is not good. :(

[denese]

19. what about me???

I'm here too and didn't vote for him.
We all get screwed. That's the problem

[WI_DEM]

20. So all those state workers who will lose their jobs voted for him?

millions of people voted for his democratic opponent, you know? and many of them will be the ones getting hurt the most while those who voted for him, in many cases--not all--are probably better off and can withstand this much more than others. So actually the ones getting hurt the most will be the people who voted against him--minorities, the poor, students, elderly folks who depend on many state services, etc.

[csziggy]

24. Actually most of the state workers I know here in Tallahassee are Democratic

If you look at the maps of Florida, Leon County, where Tallahassee is, is a little blue island up here in the red Panhandle. Jefferson and Gadsden Counties to the east and west are shading less red and may be up to purple but Leon is solidly blue. In fact it looks as though more of the surrounding counties are going blue!

[sufrommich]

21. I'm counting on Rick Scott's administration to be the

end of the Tea Party. He's doing a good job of making it so.

[Mika]

22. Its just the start in the new sociopathic America, cheered on by US corporomedia. n/t

[Tatiana]

23. This is going to be at least twice as bad as the Ohio disaster.

Unfortunately, these Teanuts will have to ruin their states like Bush ruined this nation in order for people (especially seniors) to actually vote for the best candidate to govern their state.