Posted on 02/09/2011 6:52:12 AM PST by nkronos
In contrast to the paltry ridiculousness of President Obama’s proposed $775 million budget cut, the Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, has unveiled a new budget containing $5 billion in spending reductions. To put that in perspective, Florida’s deficit is $3.6 billion, so Scott is actually cutting more than is necessary to erase the state’s fiscal shortfall: it’s almost 140 percent....Obama’s cut–which a spokesman described as “not easy”–is about 0.05 percent of the budget deficit. In other words, proportionally in terms of deficit reduction, Scott’s is 2,800 times as great as Obama’s. That’s right: 2,800 times.
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I can’t imagine any sane FReeper wanting Alex Sink to run this state!
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I can assure you, there were some that wanted Scott to lose. I suspect they aren’t really Freepers. DUmmies pretending to be Freepers maybe. I guess they wanted Sink to be in charge of redistricting therefore helping 0h0m0 steal FL. I do not believe he has a snowballs chance in hell of taking FL in 2012.
The Sarasota-Herald Tribune, our local wholly-owned NYT subsidiary, was having a full-blown whine-fest this morning. Makes me smile, because the louder these useful idiots cry, the more you know something good is happening...
Exactly right.....Way to go....Governor Scott!!!!
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