The savage incivility of the State of Florida: danger, stay away
What is wrong with the picture?
Both (legislative) chambers’ budgets set aside up to $1 billion in general revenue that would go to reserves – flexibility that could allow them to meet Scott’s corporate income-tax (cuts/incentives) demands if push came to shove. (Orlando Sentinel)
Tens of thousands of uninsured, chronically ill, disabled and mentally challenged people would be directly touched by about $1 billion in cuts proposed for many health and social programs.
Legislators say they must take tough steps to fix a $3.8 billion budget hole caused by the recession. Health and social programs cost about $29 billion.
"Faced with the economy we're in, there was absolutely no other choice," said one budget writer, Rep. Marti Coley, R-Marianna. (Miami Herald)
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi
To me it seems like we did have a choice and we chose to forsake our humanity.
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