Comments on: Scott Unveils Big Budget Cuts — $4.6 Billion And 8,681 Jobs

By: T

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:22:10 +0000

YES, I agree 100% with “FEDUP” why not drug test people on welfare, foodstamps, and disability???
Did he also cut his pay???
What a piece of CRAP he turned out to be!!!
Oh yea, let’s cut all these jobs so we can then apply for unemployment. YEP, a real winner.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:56:35 +0000

This only means that a once working person will now be on unemployment either way it is coming out of your taxes….Yeah let us close it…I would love to sit at home and get paid!!! This is for the Scott lovers!!!! lol!!!

By: billy

billy — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:31:14 +0000

Oh he’s good

By: SW

SW — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:17:31 +0000

So what does being a part of the FRS have to do with the day-to-day local law enforcement function? Re-vamping the retirement doesn’t affect their salaries one bit; that is paid by taxes collected in the county-oh, and Federal funding, too.

County and state employees may have to help fund their own retirement (most in the private sector do), the county/city may have to start funding their employee’s retirements separate from the FRS, or the employees will have no retirement.

Maybe it’s time we prioritize just exactly what government services we need and fund only those services we can afford, i.e., law enforcement and the courts. That’s just about it. The local school board should fund the schools. Government is here to protect us, not to take care of us from cradle to grave, to build parks, and the like.

If some non-necessary state/local positions go away, so be it. Those employees who are displaced have a choice-sit and whine or go find employment in the private sector where pay and benefits are better.

By: MM

MM — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:36:17 +0000

“So now instead of working , the people of florida will be supporting 8,681 new people”

On the contrary, the 8,681 people who had unnecessary “jobs” (who were already being supported by the working tax payer), will now go get jobs that will allow them to suport themselves.

By: huh

huh — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:03:07 +0000

Now you have 8,681 more people that will be on unemployment and possible welfare due to lack of jobs

So now instead of working , the people of florida will be supporting 8,681 new people

By: bama54

bama54 — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:05:06 +0000

For all you whiners on here. Get over it!! If his plans keep me from paying more taxes by cutting government spending, and cutting out programs that only assist the lazy. Then I would vote for him again.

By: WEAR last to know

WEAR last to know — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:20:33 +0000

■SW on February 8th, 2011 10:11 am
@ me

“The protect and serve thing is a local function, i.e., county sheriff, city police, not a
state function.”

For future information to those who do not know better….Your ECSO is under the FRS pension. So this is cuts to your local function SW.

By: You Who

You Who — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:16:14 +0000

We now have a Govenor that holds a grudge. The two organizations he has attacked the most did not support him in the election. Imagine that!. Agree with me or I will cut your budjects to where it hurts. I still wondering why someone would spend 70+ million of his own money to get a job that pay’s $150.00.00. The math does not add up here. Is it because he wants to get his hands on that retirement fund or some how control heath care or maybe the prison system. Only time will tell but theres got to be something in it for him. People like him are only thinking numbers and profits. Like most of the crooks up there in Tallahassee it’s all about them and nothing for the working man/woman

By: SW

SW — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:11:41 +0000

@ me

I have no problem with the creation of more private sector jobs. Those don’t drive up my taxes!

The protect and serve thing is a local function, i.e., county sheriff, city police, not a state function.