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Rick Scott: Wisconsin Validates Florida’s Conservative Agenda
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Gov. Rick Scott
“It shows you, if you go make the tough choices, and you do exactly what you said when you ran, you will get re-elected,” Scott said during radio interviews Friday morning with Southwest Florida radio stations.
“That is exactly what Governor Walker did," Scott reiterated on 97.3 FM SKY. "He went and made the tough choices. We’ve got to start living within our means.
“Make sure you treat people with respect, but you cannot be wasting state dollars. That is exactly what we’re doing here. That is what he did. That is why he won.”
The Wisconsin recall fight was spawned by the governor's move to curtail collective bargaining rights for most Wisconsin state employees, while raising health care and pension co-pays.
Walker and Republicans in Wisconsin argued the bill was needed to reduce a budget shortfall. Democrats countered that the move was designed to break the unions, a core constituent of the party.
Scott, who is running for re-election in 2014, has butted heads with unions in Florida and state employees over collective bargaining, something he believes shouldn't be a guaranteed right in Florida’s Constitution, and in rejecting federal stimulus money for projects like the high-speed rail in Central Florida.
“When I first announced I didn’t want to put money into high-speed rail, people said ‘What are you doing? You should be taking all that federal money that you can,’” Scott said while on 92.5 FM FOX in Fort Myers. “Then we look at California's $118 billion. There is no way to pay for that. Our project here was never going to work.”
Californians' enthusiasm for the $9 billion borrowing plan to pay for a Los Angeles to San Francisco bullet train has waned considerably, as costs have leapt to $68 billion, according to the Los Angeles Times. Additional reports have placed the cost between $70 billion and $100 billion over the next two decades.
“Over time, if you do the right thing, and people understand why you do it, that’s what Scott Walker did, and it worked up there and it’s working here,” Scott said on FOX.
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Comments (11)
This wasn't about the economics, this was about political idealogy. This was about Scott's California-based Reason Foundation advisors who nationally demonize all rail/mass transit, all growth management and urban planning, and all governmental regulation, while desiring the privatization of all government. Sound familar?
Or voting.
You also want collective punishment (i.e. if any family member has done something, you pay for it). Very un-American.
So let me get this right - you don't believe in American representative government; do believe in illegal, unethical collective punishment based on familial lines; and feel one shouldn't have a say in what they get paid.
I have it! I know the type of country you desire to live in - - Somalia.
You "conservatives"bought their entire lie about teacher pay and wet yourselves over SB732. What this bill did was put Florida in compliance with Barack Obama's Race to the Top education plan, or ObamaEd. Why? For 700 million. The grant style is exactly the same as what the rail was, when the money runs out Florida is still on the hook for the nationalized curriculum and other collectivist inroads into our state school system but the taxpayers will have to fund it. Rick Scott also agreed to take three million from Obama care, a law he says is no law at all and his own AG is fighting in court.
Conservative in FL are so ignorant of the real philosophy behind the principles they claim to hold they fall for all of the RPOF's crony nonsense.
Public unions should not exist, but they are not the biggest problem, entitlements are. Entitlement that have NEVER been seriously opposed by the GOP or the RPOF. Ask all those tea drinkers in the Villages if they will give up their social security or medicaid to put the budget back in line, or even take a cut. They would have a diarrhea hemmorage at the thought. So much for conscience.
Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and Defense are killing this country. The wanton disregard for the blood of our youth or their economic future presents a much worse threat than public sector unions. The warfare/welfare state is the real nation killer. Unions are just a tumor in the already cancer filled patient.
Those were equally winning solutions - thank god that Roosevelt came along with more progressive ideas that worked.
First of all, (G)od is capitalized. And what, or anything whatsoever, was Roosevelt successful at? Nothing he proposed got us out of the Great Depression. But his socialism has cursed America ever since.
He was a socialist bureaucrat that aligned us with the communist Jewish atheist USSR and helped destroy conservative Christian Germany. We will be punished by the Lord for many years to come as has Russia.
I thought I sensed a wannabe neo-nazi skinhead behind these hate everyone but white male Christian comments you continue to make, eluded to here.
I sincerely doubt you actually know much about, or have even visited, Germany. I lived in West Germany after WWII while the Berlin wall was going up, saw the Beatles, experienced the Cuban Missle crisis and Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. Later that decade, I studied in a German University during my 18 years of undergraduate and graduate work, and visited family in both Germany and Switzerland. My father and two of my five brothers fought in WWII. My dad fought in North Africa against Rommel's Afrika Corps, and was with Patton in Sicily, France and the Battle of the Bulge. My oldest brother was a marine wounded going up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, and my 2nd oldest brother was sunk (but rescued) in the Northern Atlantic while in the Merchant Marines taking supplies to England
You, quite frankly, don't know what you're talking about, period.
Your followers should feel so proud of you, even if you are, once again, a little out of date - - at best, calling everyone a Commie went out with Joseph McCarthy and the 1950's, except for you and Mr West.
Too bad history's judgment seems to be almost always on the side of the progressives and not the retrogressives among us.
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