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Florida Grows Private-Sector Jobs While Government Work Withers

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jackson
11:11PM SEP 21ST 2011
When you do not have adequate funding for government services and good state workers (including healthy schools, health services, prison system, etc) and adequate regulations to control pollution and toxic waste, your communities will deteriorate, your shools will become horrible, good employees will leave the state work force, and then no one will want to come to Florida for fun or work because they will not want their kids living or vacationing in a hell-hole. You idiots that just swallow the crap that republicans sell you about government being "bad"..shows you are mindless and absolutely clueless. You just don't get it and never will. Good government and business needs a healthy relationship to benefit all people. The Florida state employees are the lowest paid and the smallest group in the nation. Most people find it easy just to hate someone ...shame on all of you.
Dorine in FL
2:29PM SEP 21ST 2011
President Obama's war on the economy and jobs has done more to kill government jobs on the local levels than anything, as counties and cities all across America struggle to balalnce budgets amid a myriad of new regulations that cost millions to enact. Unfortunately these municipalites can't print monopoly money to pay the difference and everywhere you see city and county workers being laid off or let go. The fact that Governor Scott is able to bring jobs into Florida and balance the Florida budget is almost miraculous considering the deficit and unrelenting jobs killing policies of this Administration. Put the blame where it belongs and that would be squarely on the White House and congressional Democrats who took a crisis and 'transformed' it into a disaster!
Robert Lloyd
8:40AM SEP 21ST 2011
>>Florida added 87,200 private-sector jobs<<

What OTHER kinds of jobs are there? Gov't can't create jobs, but only stay out of the way so free enterprise can. The gov't can only steal from us and give it to themselves. And if that isn't enough, they are then put in a position over us to trample our businesses with their 'expertise' that somehow they think we can't live without.

I think the Scott administration should be credited not only with 87,200 jobs, but but but... PLUS cutting waste of 15,600 bureaucrats for a net gain of 102,800. Someone (a real person and not on the gov't payroll) tell me why I am wrong in believing THIS is the way it should look statistically.
Jack Land
8:09AM SEP 21ST 2011
This only tells part of the story. What is the average salary of these new jobs? More businesses have closed in Tallahassee but new McDonald's are opening up.