Have at it, folks.
Posted on 05/07/2006 1:08:15 PM PDT by mission9
We begin with one overarching principle: those who aspire to lead this state must accept responsibility for its future. We can not see Florida only as it is today. We must envision it as it could and should be tomorrow and have a plan to turn that vision into reality.
We have asked the members of the Florida House to make a public commitment to the people of Florida, about our future. A commitment that asks every Floridian to work hard and play by the rules.
In return, we commit to creating a government whose primary mission will be to insure that every Floridian will have the freedom and opportunity to achieve financial security and leave for their children a better life than their own.
This commitment, this vision of our future, must be at the center of everything we do in Tallahassee over the next three years. There is no room for blame. People don’t care whose fault it is, they want to know what you are going to do about it. There is no room for petty partisan politics. People understand that Republicans and Democrats may disagree on solutions, but they expect us to at least agree on the problems. Ultimately, they will and should hold all of us accountable for the results.
We will listen to Floridians. We will be guided by their ideas. And on every issue, we must ask ourselves: Will this idea make Florida a better state for the next generation? Will this make Florida a better place to live and work – for my children? We will no longer be afraid of the future. We will challenge it.
(Excerpt) Read more at 100ideas.org ...
Could you put this on your ping list, for the sake of the children?
Wee, this is fun! So far I'm just reading and rating. I want to see what's there so far before I submit a suggestion.
Some of the ideas are great...and then some make me wonder where I put the duct tape.
***insert sound of head exploding here***
If some of these people have their way Florida will end up being the ultimate Nanny state.
Just a warning, some of these "ideas" are submited by children and teens. It is pretty obvious which ones. Please offer the love and encouragement that you would lavish upon your own child's refrigerator artwork. Do not damage their self esteem, just gently explain to them that the world does not revolve around government schools.
I live in faraway Montana, been to florida once, found out the sand at Key West is IMPORTED. The flood in Des Moines years ago suggested an idea : buoyant flood road : 20'x20' buoyant road panels, piano-hinged atop concrete wall on land side, deep-sunk dead man anchors on the river or seaside. Along comes your flood, hurricane storm surge, tsunami and they NATURALLY float up into a vertical seawall, you don't need to sandbag, etc; the NATURAL FORCES of buoyancy operates the panels. Then when the waters abate the panels float back down into a useful roadway again.....Built a table top model last november(after katrina), took pictures of panels(in a lazy B pattern)in action in a swimming pool. Sent off concept drawings/pics to 22 coastal states governors(incl FL), only Gov Bob Riley of AL responded, saying he'd refer the idea to his FEMA guy, where I knew it would die. Katrina told us all we ever need to know about self reliance vs government "help". The self reliant survived, the government reliant suffered and died, and now FEMA will be euthanized as well....So, instead of a buoyant flood road and survival, Gov Bush(who flat ignored the idea)wants his state to DROWN when the next big one hits....hey, it was your choice. Old Montana saying : you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him DRINK....
Some are, but many are honest hard working public servants. What we need here are solutions to various challenges, what are yours?
My solutions?
They are legion.
I always wanted to say that line.
I have lots of notions but chief among them is voting people out of office. That is not to say don't vote. It is to say...VOTE! Vote for the new guy.
Vote for people who actually have an investment in our communities. You might know some people of that status. They cut hair, deliver mail, drive trucks, cut grass, pull teeth, and a whole lot more.
Voting for professional politicians is insane, and in the end it will get us all killed.
Peter Principle : you're good doing THIS(cutting hair, delivering mail, etc)but a complete flop in going to the next level. Everyone rises to his highest level of incompetance is how I think it's stated. Bogus Bill clinton is a prime example of the Peter Principle, Ross Perot said he's barely competant for mid-level management; and the biggest mistake america ever made was putting him in the oval office for 8 years. The only reason he wasn't convicted on the impeachment charges was his replacement, an even BIGGER LOSER - algore, was/is a certifiable nutcase. A tree is known by its fruit....So, we still haven't heard YOUR solutions yet, or are you just another clueless democrat who can only GRIPE about the challenges? We at FR have little patience with infantile whiners...So, suit 'em up and trot 'em out here for everyone to chew on....
Have at it, folks.
Build off-shore 'theme-parks' that double as oil drilling platforms... a slew of them.
101. Change the coastline so that Florida no longer resembles America's Penis.
What would you build the hinges out of? How would you maintain them? What floating substance is the road surface made of? How would you seal the seams between the 20' panels?
Neat idea, I'd like to know the details.
Seawater is incredibly corrosive, and semis are incredibly abusive to road surfaces. The construction materials are key. If it's a doable idea, I'll bet Japan would be interested.
How about two massive off shore oil production platforms built off of the panhandle, that would look from orbit, very suspiciously like...gonads.
How can local control be "out of date"? It could be good, it could be bad, but how can which it is depend on the date?
And what does the proposition have to do with "technology"?
That's a cool site. Apprently, some government education/fine arts group has been trolling it pretty heavily. I went ahead and registered, and have left several comments.
I think the bureaucracy should be improved and upgraded. In particular, I had experience with Social Services for Seniors. There are hundreds of offices that were non responsive and I had to call Tallahassee after 3 weeks looking for help for an elderly neighbor. These need to be reorganized so that the social workers have access to up-to-date technology and services are more accesible and consumer friendly. Rather than three weeks of run-around I would have liked to call one hotline number that had the expertise to handle the matter by calling the correct agency. Instead, the last time I called the Elder-abuse hotline they gave me a number that rang at the lifeguard station at the beach. Cruel joke.
Likewise when I sought help from the agency that oversees mobile homes and land I got a very unsatisfactory response. Although there is an elegant law, there is no enforcement, just clerks taking and filing thousands of complaints. This agency needs to be upgraded with qualified attorneys to actually do some of the enforcement provided for by law.
By the way, I strongly disagree with the post above of abolishing local school districts. The closer to the parents and community school governance is the better. I think home schooling shows that.
I was just testing you. Correct.
Are you sure that this is the Republican Party?
I feel like I'm reading the Democrat playbook.
That's where you come in. Come on now. I need all the help I can get. Do you think you can attend, or sponsor, any idearaisers?
Disagree with this statement. WIthout local influence and control public schools will become even more liberalized. Consolodation of power to the feds is always bad.
Exactly how does technology make control at the local level out of date? Just wondering.
Ah yes, a perceptive fellow. The very details I've been pondering for months, years. Hinges : probably steel with corrosion resistant cladding. As we're talking miles and miles of roadway here, the cheapest solution possible. Transverse edge joints : since these are independent panels for raising-inspection and repair you'd need detachable tie cables for next-neighbor support. Straight sections are easy vs curved sections, ie, the overlap or underlap as square panels go from horizontal to vertical. A gentle curve : probably just a slide-past shiplap joint w/rare earth magnets where the buoyant-rising panel-force is just enough to break the magnetic grip. For sharp turns, either 2 fold-down joint sections(3 transverse piano hinges)when horizontal and they pop to wedge section at vertical(for concave-to-the-sea curve); or fold-pop-out on convex sections, they pop out to rear upon vertical and are normally a road surface. To wit, how does the road "crinkle" in flood mode? ....Deep set dead man anchors spudded out at grade and minor high tension cables going to bottom plate at 2'o.c.....Panel : top and bottom plates : steel, concrete, composites; with web truss or space frame between them, 12" to 24" thick. Think of the concrete road sections on the freeway across Lake Ponchatrain as katrina lifted them off the supports. You could fill the chambers w/styrofoam to maintain buoyancy even with a leak. This would also help w/ground freezing.....Top surface : TOUGH enough to resist semitruck washboarding, furrowing, "drumming" of panel if some bearing support is lost. Material : possibly this new "memory metal", a rubber-metal alloy like the stuff found in the 1947 UFO crash in NM....Panels could be 30', 40' even 50' high but at 50' you're looking at a small hydroelectric dam's height = FORCE....There is also a companion parasail system to slow down hurricne force winds that could be deployed.....Anyway, did table top model, took pics in swimming pool, sent off to 22 coastal states govs for christmas, almost zero response; so, let 'em drown in hurricanes this year, they didn't care for solutions; maybe the japanese will....
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