WHAT’S UP WITH FLORIDA?

OK!  HERE’S THE POOP

We live in Florida which has one of the most corrupt state governments in the USA. The majority of the incumbents focus in the past few years has been how much money can come into their pockets as a result of shady deals they make with companies doing business with the state. One instance is the new Taj Mahal Court House built with the backing of officials, another is notably the new Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio. He won’t run for VP this year, but in a few years people will forget his involvement along with some other things having to do with the Florida GOP revenues.

Can you really imagine a local school district talking about saving money by going from five day a week classes to four days?  Most school districts hire their superintendents because of qualifications not their political affiliations, not ours though. Ours is an elected official with the backing of the Republican Party who had little educational background, and she now has competition from another Republican. Guess his educational background. He was our former superintendent of elections who got appointed to a job in Tallahassee where he helped cut the number of early voting hours. After getting a lot of flak for that, he decided to return to our county where he will be touted over the current Republican for his “now” expertise in education. Our county is also so backward that the candidate with the most votes here in the national primary was Newt Gringrich.

Our Governor is now for privatizing our prison systems and guess who would take over, friends of the GOP, of course. That means more money in politicians’ pockets by way of contributions to their election campaigns or PAC s. This seems to be the trend for the whole country. There actually is some opposition in our state legislature after some tried to sneak in such as bill in the middle of the night.

In the meantime, people are losing their homes everywhere and we in our county have been hit by an enormous amount of foreclosures, and our homes are not expensive ones. These are now the homes of the new poor.  Mitt Romney’s solution is let the houses go into default, buy  them, then rent them to the same poor people who have just lost them. That allows people like him to make more money. What I see in our community are the “for rent” signs which are visible for a long time, meaning there are enormous amount of rentals available.

Let’s hope that this year’s general election can get our country back to the values we hope most people have. Let’s pray that the bigotry in this country goes away soon, our President deserves respect from all our citizens. I hope all those” birthers” disappear and that the NRA is done away with soon.

I know, but I can hope can’t I?