Oh yes, he has such much going against him, like the news media telling the people how he is gutting the environmental protections, and how the news media is telling us how he is cutting services to the old, ill & poor while he cuts deals & loopholes for big businesses. He has the media telling us how he is taking money from the state employees to balance the budget and how he took millions from the schools and education.
Poor Rick Scott.

what kind of governor removes contact information from official letterhead? Go ahead and write a letter to the department of finance and look at your reply.

CAROL GRAVES
I think he is the worst Governor that we have ever had! I was born in Florida and He doesn't care one bit about helping the average person,he is only for the rich People who elected him. He has cut so many programs and hurt so many People in our State. Do your Homework People before you allow this Man,SCOTT to be elected as Governor for 4 MORE YEARS !

Old SCOTT is getting scared so he is up in Washington talking to the Big Wigs to see
what he can do to about the OBAMA CARE now because he knows that he will lose
votes by turning it down for FLORIDA ! He is running scared for the next ELECTION and guess WHAT? We are going to put a DEMOCRAT IN HIS SEAT !!!

Patricia, you will not find love in here by most....I think most of these folks thought this was the TBO web site and contrary opinion is just not accepted!

Carol Graves, OBAMA care is one issue that I am sorry to see he is reversing on. Most people know that it is nothing more then a new TAX! With socialist controls tossed in for good measure! Please tell me you know better then to support that illegal pile of garbage.

How do you see a good heart?maybe when he defrauded millions from Medicare while owning hospitals. Stealing from taxpayers to become even more wealthy. He is a cold blooded, self serving snake.

First of all, how can you put any credibility towards a poll that only adds up to 92%. What happened to the other 8%. Also think about the fact that Obama is only supported by 51% of the country and he is our president. 49% DO NOT want him in office. Looks like Scott's 50% of "average or better" results puts him in higher regard than our beloved president, O BUM a

Sounds like he's doing a great job! The fact that you mentioned he's "trying to privatize (insert your favorite government office here)" makes me like him even more. Inefficiency and constant wasteful spending and the lack of checks and balances on government expenditures have always been the mark of liberal policies. Government should be run like a business and if we had more Governor Scotts running this nation, discussing a "Fiscal Cliff" would be nothing more than bizzarre academic discussion rather than the horror it is turning out to be.

Scott is, without question, the WORST GOVERNOR EVER!

Steve, so you wat a big government socialized governor to run the state into the ground like California? Or maybe an even bigger government idiot like Obozo? Its obozo's lack of ideas on the economy that has stalled job creation in this country. And he hasn't created a single job? Must be reading leftist talking points. What I'd like to know i how did the democratic party turn overnight into the socialist party? Compare yourselves to Hugo Chavez--exactly the same. Then again, you people probably admire him too.

Bravo!! I am a teacher who had 3% taken illegally by Scott....unfortunately, the Florida Supreme Court overturned the original decision that he acted "Illegally! in taking that 3%....NOW,,,I find out that the money that he withheld from us is NOT EVEN GOING TO OUR RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.....HE (SCOTT) is using it for something else.......SHAME ON YOU RICK SCOTT!!! MAY YOU NEVER BE ELECTED TO ANYTHING MORE THAN YOUR CONDO COMMITTEE!!

wow! name calling by the guy who has not traveled outside his momma's basement because he believes the big bad government is going to read his mind. what he doesn't realize is if anyone did read his mind they'd be torn between deciding if it were a comedy or a tragedy.

Of all the programs Governor Scott has vetoed, this perhaps has my total support! The "grants" SecTrans LaHood had o.k'ed for Florida were nothing more than loans to which Florida had to cough up the remaining 50 or so % of funding. This is too much for the state to charge in the form of extra taxes without a credible ROI. What doesn't surprise me is the typical response you folks on the other side of the aisle look to are "hoped for results" and rose colored outcomes rather than carefully weighing and committng to any financial analysis of the project. You folks typically look to someone else's wallet to pay for something rather than your own. This is nothing more than larcenous theivish behavior smeared at the statewide level.

Ptb, get your facts straight before you comment. Obozo thought it would be a good idea, and create a total of a couple of hundred permanent jobs (while claiming to create thousands, most of which would be temp construction jobs that never total into the thousands anyway) for the state of FL to kick in several hundred million dollars that we don't have if the big govt in DC put up a similar amount for a high speed train. They weren't giving us anything and like all money obozo dolls out to those stupid enough to take money from the devil, it came with big strings attached.

You can remove a cancerous growth on a finger by amputating the arm, but the superior oncologist uses more appropriate methods to remove just the tumor.

The man is destructive, and reflects a dangerous radical ideology that prefers ignorance and disenfranchising some voters.

From his prior career, where he learned how to legally defraud the health care consumer, he brought the short term worst parts of "business" instead of the long term benefit approach of the strategic business executive.

Agreed! I can't think of a more lambasted and criticized Governor than this man. Bravo to his standing up to the liberal loons who think tax and spend policies will save the say. If I may borrow a famous saying: no country ever taxed and spend themselves into prosperity. Nothing can be further from the truth.

I notice the people that love SCOTT do not put their full name! I wonder WHY on the
comments! no GUTS !

Grandpa, disenfranchising voters=liberalspeak for enforcing the law. I know you may want to vote more than once for your leftist candidate and you want illegal aliens (oh my, I said it are you going to send the thought police?) to be able to vote so they can prop up the candidate who gives them free stuff just for living here but we are a country of laws and we follow, or are supposed to, a constitution. This state was bleeding money when Scott took over no thanks to the Rhino (who is currently sucking off every Dem with power and money to run for office again) who was the previous office holder.

For Tony, who seems to understand very little about democracy, when someone criticizes a governor's attempt to suppress LEGAL voters, that is not equivalent to your contention that Scott was just "enforcing the law".

Even some Florida GOP officials have been publicly quoted on the value (to GOP candidates) of reducing minority votes in the recent election.

When someone fights against those kinds of abuses of democracy, it does NOT mean that they want to vote "more than once" as you so contemptuously regurgitate radical right wing zealots, and it does NOT mean they want "illegal aliens" to vote.

Nobody, not you and not me and not anyone else, should vote more than once.

Furthermore, no one but a US citizen should vote.

Give up your mindless rants from the land of Loud-mouthed Limbaugh, and enter the real world of objective dialogue.

And, by the way, I don't want to vote for "leftist" candidates, in the same way that I don't want to vote for "rightist" candidates; my candidate of choice is always the centrist who understands what is of greatest value to the nation, rather than espouses some extremist ideology.

When we get back to that temperate and rational national approach, America, and the world, will be better for it.

Four more years. This man has been a blessing to Florida, but hey, you can't handle the truth.

Crist is no longer a rino. He is now on the Dem ticket & will be the first Gov. of Florida to hold office from both parties.

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

Chist, is an extreme politican. One that will jump on to any ship that will pay his way. I hope he is never in office again for any political position in the state of Florida or the United States of America where he can make real decisions. If people complain about Romney, Obama, or Scott flip-flopping what do you have to say about Chist's flip-flops. He never met an issue he didn't like both sides on.

Let him continue. Remember what's said about giving someone enough rope.

You are absolutely correct.

I forgot about the voter supression. How could I have forgotten. He put Fl. back on the map as the new La La Land. His next election will most likely have national attention. Gov. Crazy vs. Crist. It's made for National Hype. Scott's popularity has a couple of more years to to go before he really bottoms out.

There's a difference. The majority of the Country likes Obama as a person. Scott is looked at as being creepy & totally out of touch with the people. Obama is a man of the people. Scott is for big business & Obama is for the common man. That's the difference that Tea Party dupes don't see. Most Tea Party people don't have a clue that the Tea Party is a front group for the rich Capitalists. Rent an old movie called John Doe with Gary Cooper. The John Doe Movement is the Tea Party Movement with the Capitalists in the background pulling the puppet strings.

Sounds like the nubmers defy your predictions as well as your observations....but then again, I never met a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who is so blinded by hate that such feelings clouds and distorts their sense of reality until your posted here. Liberalism is a mental disorder and your its poster child.

Your comment about America being a fan of Obama is off the mark. He did not win by a landslide, not even close. Considering Romney took the high road in his campaign, and all the liberal media was running him over in every news report. When Obama lied his way around every issue. I would say Romney did well. The other issue with the election was ZERO reported votes for Romney in several key townships in Pennsylvania when I had family in those towns that voted for Romney, I don't trust Obama's re-election for a second. As for Crist, he will never be gov of Florida again.

Weathy people taxed to death. Raising Taxes on the weathy is actually initially a Republican idea born out of Reaganomics. When the lower and upper classes pay on average 14% of their income on taxes and the middle class pays on average 30% of their income on taxes who exactly is being taxed to death as you put it? What is wrong with all citizens being taxed the same percentage? How dare I ask everyone to pay the same amount. I know major American Businesses are asking for that and the removal of tax loopholes on all corporate taxes. Then again, they are usually smarter than the average citizen.
The economic boom of the 1990's was based on Reaganomics and spurred by the tax hikes on the weathly. More gross revenue is then needed to make make the same net revenue which means more work needs to be done. It is the ecomonic law of Margins that Reagan and George H. Bush understood. Clinton was just smart enough to stay the course. George W. Bush didn't understand the beauty in which the Republican Administrations had created.
But then again Raising taxes on the rich is a Liberal idea, right? Put down the Obama 2016 movie and both sides need to stop drinking their perspective cool-aid.

Outstanding post! Try not to let the peanut gallery sway you from your brilliant observation.

Patriot,
So our government regulates the laws of Supply and Demand on oil... sorry, just like Bush didn't have control over the price of Gas niether does Obama. The economic laws of Supply and Demand and the people who control the supply are the ones who determine that.

You nailed it! Wait till the libs get a few weeks into 2013 and start to find out they can't afford to put gas in their scooters.

I hate to deliberate, but Reaganomics was not the birth of taxing the wealthy. It actually was the idea of lowering taxes in order to stimulate the increase of corporations which in-turn stimulates jobs. When jobs are in abundance people buy things, when they buy things corporations can expand even more and the cycle continues all the while taxes are free flowing into the government. It ends up being about quantity not quality. Clinton may have taken credit for the surplus but it was Reagan whom actually built it.
This would be a good time to follow that path again. Allow corporations to expand and create jobs, and if you want to tax anyone, tax the corporations utilizing off-shore resources in order to bring a lot of those jobs back to America.

Brad,
I used poor wording in born out of Reaganomics, but raising taxes the rich and the corporations was part of Reaganomics. Because it means a corporation has to create/sell more in order to have the same net profit. Been prooven throughout history and Reagan, G.H.Bush, and Clinton treasury/economic advisors have agreed upon it. G.W.Bush lowered the taxation on the wealth to create jobs, when financial advisors from previous administrations were telling him not to. When you lower the taxation, the corporations/people have to do less in order to make a solid profit, and as prooven through the 2000's they will take that extra money and save it.

Brad,
Also penalizing companies for sending basic jobs offshore will do nothing, but remove them from a competitive position in the market. China can make a plastic for 50% less than we can if not more due to cost of labor. Unfortunitely we do not have a leader, and we didn't have a major candidate willing to be truthful with us that in today economic environment our industries are not truly build to compete. We have moved to a service economy and different organizations are making manufacturing jobs too expensive to make a competitive product.

Agreed....he was the lesser of two evils. So, all things considered.....keep pissing in the liberal corn flakes Scott!

If the libs dislike him, then I'm all in for him.

Where did you get your numbers from? A family of 3 can get medicaid if their income is less than 185% of the Federal Poverty Level which is 35,316.50. http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/programs/access/docs/fammedfactsheet.pdf
http://www.vitahealth.org/Modules/ShowDocument2.aspx?documentid=1176

Where in gods name have you been Tom, on another planet, head stuck in the sand, or are you just another republican getting rich from Scotts privitization plans.

Tom,
Changes needed to be made, because we are an economy based on tourism. When the World economic recession happened obviously tourism went down. My issue with him is the type of cuts he took and total 180 he made from campaign to administration in a number of issues. I disagree on how he executed his plan. He closed state run businesses that were vital to the health of our state. Closing the only TB clinic in the state while in the middle of the large TB outbreak in state history? Bad choice. Having to apologize for cuts because he made them uninformed. Bad form. A restructuring of the state's financial system was definitely in order. The problem is no real leader and restructurer stepped up to the plate in the last election to do the job.

Agreed Tom

Nice comment! "Restrain and self-preservation" are not watchwords of the liberal loonybin who troll these pages. As long as their own money is not involved, this state would be Kalifornia bankrupt but for the intervention of Governor Scott.

Michael D....I am not referring to supply and demand....i am referring to the loss of income as provided by the president elect....the dollar will continue to lose 3% per month for the next 4 years.... just like a frog in a pot of boiling water....America will get cooked in the squat!

Patriot,
While I agree that the dollar is losing value. One of the dumbest things that are sold is if we increase the minimum wage, we make a better standard of living. Again, going against the laws of Supply and Demand. The dollar is always losing value, that is why things have to be measured in a nominal dollar. A premuim lasse faire economy should see a 2-3% inflation every year. Example to have the purchasing power of $100 in 1913 you would need approximately $2000 today. What you are stating is that the dollar is declining at a rate of over 33% a year. Which would put us well past recession right now into depression. That is just basic economics. Republicans are just as much to blame as Democrats.
The root of the problem was going from the Strong Dollar policies started by Reagan and continued through George H. Bush and Bill Clinton. To a weak dollar Keynesian approach. "Cheap dollar equals more exports." Obama keeping the treasury under the same belief is an issue.
The only true measure of the dollar at the moment in time is exchange rates. Because you can't compared against gold being the price of gold is in hyper inflation similar to 1980 when it was $7000/oz. Currently the dollar is gaining ground against most major currencies.

The move to the Cheaper Dollar Economics came in the early 2002 unders George W. Bush. When I was editing to make under the word count apparently I deleted that line.

ptb - oh you mean like all the "green energy" companies getting taxpayer money thrown their way by Obama right before they go out of business? That kind of favorites you are accusing Rick Scott of?

Liberty,
Every administration ends up throwing bad money at somethings. It is the nature of the position. To fault Obama is to also fault Scott. Both have had successes and both have had failures. Do I think their are many federal and state positions that should be privatized, without a doubt. Are their some that should remain with the government of course. The difference is who I want to have my government held information. One entity or multiple entities applying multiple services. I think Scott has had some good plans and some bad ones.

rhinos and libs only know how to whine

Tom is correct.

Cortland,
So by your numbers and logic, it is ok if a governor is just not bad. Instead of looking for a real leader. I agree on Crist who is just another carrer politican who will change to where ever his next paycheck is coming from. As Floridians, maybe instead of "not bad" we should be looking for "good".

Cortland, You are so right.

Actually currently Florida is ranked 11th in education which has actually increased from 27th in 2010. http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2012/16src.h31.html

I do agree with you on the healthcare workers though. For some reason here in Florida the Healthcare workers actually treat this as a job. I have lived in numerous other places and this is the only place I have noticed it. There are fewer healthcare workers out there that are passionate about their work which is usually the case. I have to attribute that to the respect they are given which includes their salaries. Healthcare workers whom have supervisors that treat their profession as a job follow suit.

People who are personally responsible have a problem with people who are not personally responsible. Its that simple.

Michael,
Then your problem is finding anyone in our government who is responsible. On both sides of the isle, a personally responsible politician is an extinct breed.

Not sure what you are talking about - I noticed some potholes in roads in my area here in SW Florida and they have been filled and are no longer an issue so someone is staying on top of road maintenance around here. I haven't heard of any bridge collapses in Florida have you? Sounds like you are just making blanket accusations

Too bad there wasn't a spot in the last Presidential election for "total jerk" because that choice would have made a better President than the one we got stuck with AGAIN

"Scott is an unindicted criminal." Haha! Debbie (are you sure you're not 'Debbie Wasserman-Schultz') you just the type of liberal tripe that can't stand being the loser in the election. You've just proven that you're a willing accomplice of trying to convict someone without the benefit of due process. Shame on you but then again, that's the mark of a liberal nutjobbette. The good Governor has been doing a splendiferous job keeping Florida on an even economic keel without having to kowtow to special interest groups trying to bankrupt the Florida economy, namely, the teacher's unions who contnually beat the drum for policies removing determining the competence and fitness of a teacher and their ability to do their job. Bravo, Governor Scott! Keep up the great job!

I agree with you Debbie. I think Scott is another one of the "toadies" under the influence of the Koch brothers who are just plain and simple evil.

Patriot,
Being we always have a choice between two sides of the same coin. And in the Presidental election their is no direct connection between popular vote and the choosen President. How is fraud not involved in every major election in our government? The same corporations own the two parties that both want big government. The different parties, just show different parts of the government they want to continue growing. Most of the things conservatives complain about are initially conservative ideas, and vice versa.

Could have been fraud. Stranger things have happened. How did The Bushmiester win in a state that was called for the other guy? His brother was Gov.? Could have had something to do with the recorded voter supression that went on in the Panhndle regarding black voters. Big Daddy Bush may have gotten on the phone & told Jebbie that he had better deliver his state & Jebbie called out the state troopers to stop the black voters on the interstate to delay them by any means that they could. I personally voted for Nader, so I feel I had a hand in delivering America into the hands of doom. How many American youth would still be alive if I, & the hundreds like me, had voted for Kerry? Bush/Chaney could never had coordinated the 911 grief into a fervor for nation building war crimes. How many homless wouldn't be dead, or on the street if Bush hadn't plunged us into the depth of economic depravity?

As far as what Rick Scott ran on during the election, I don't recall Gov. Scott mentioning cutting 1 billion from Education in his self-funded commercials but establishing an unneeded 12th university. Or eliminating hundreds of state jobs (held mainly by women). Or telling voters he (and Pam Bondi) thinks he is above following the law of the USA as decided by the Supreme Court. As I recall, he promised jobs in Florida. Where are the Florida jobs you created, Gov. Scott? Rejecting the high-speed rail cost us thousands of jobs. Rejecting Medicaid under Obama care will cost thousands more jobs. And, Cortland, I hope you are getting your money from Gov. Scott's PR firm up-front; he doesn't have a good record of keeping his promises.

unsustainable tourism? This is Florida's one and only real industry. That's not going away. It is extremely sustainable. Goods and services related to the tourism industry are heavily taxed. This is why we don't pay state tax while other states, that presumably have sustainable industries, do have to pay state tax.

Chuck,
Tourism is Florida's largest industry, but Cattle is the second leading industry in the state of Florida. Both are sustainable.

Your polls also said Obama had one of the worst approval ratings of any President in modern times. You expected Romney to win, by your % data. If you want appoval %'s, the Republicans in Congress have about an 11% approval & Kadafi had a 14% rating among the people that killed him. When the real poll is taken, come election day, the only hope Scott has is if he, & his fellow republicans, can supress enough votes to eliminate enough Non Republicans from voting.

MM - Obama won the popular vote by 51.03%, and if it was an approval rating and you compared it to other presidents at the time of re-election it would be one of the worst in history. Even "W" was at 53% during a war that most didn't think we needed to be a part of.
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php?pres=42&sort=time&direct=ASC&Submit=DISPLAY

Well, how can that be? Unemployment???????????? Economy????? ugh!

It's interesting that folks like yourself would question one's intent as being suspect and ill-meaning merely because he used HIS OWN MONEY in a political race. You can continue to pretend that you "don't hate Republicans" or that "you are not a liberal" but in fact, the language you speak betrays your true nature. You tripe about a Governor who allegedly lies but yet you don't speake of the President who consistently stated no taxes will be levied on the middle class and that you can keep your present health care insurance, Whoppers bigger than the ones found at Burger King. Please, just shut up and admit you lean left.

I am a Floridian and I never wanted Obamacare and I refuse to be forced to be put under Obamacare. I am glad Gov Scott pushed back on the tyranny of this illegally passed piece of unconstitutional chit. I pay for my own health insurance WHICH has been going up in price drastically since 2009 BECAUSE of Obamacare. I may be forced to drop my own private health insurance because of Obamacare because I won't be able to afford it. Screw all you people who support Obamacare. I refuse to comply or obey this tyranny!

You have my complete "ditto" on that!

Cheers to that... any vitriol from a lib is welcome pain in my book! IDIOTS!

And all the teachers. I say lets knock all the schools down and build more of his hospitals.

I read your link article.... Over regulation is a waste of tax payer money at a time of economic concerns...all those people that were let go from the regulatory office saved Florida a lot of money, and any government job in a time of fidcal shortfall should be on the table for elimination.

With whom?

Hey Michalel Mirra, You don't know me, you just think you do because the liberal media has told you that they know everyone, and everyone that is not with the liberals is all that you just described. If you want to know, just ask...I am a Ron Paul supporter! I espouse to my son the greatness of the past America! The Constitution, and the Bill of Rights! I hold these documents as my compass to all things political. I never go out of the way to make something currently being pushed, fit in with these documents! Most laws and policy debated in public forum today never past the test of these documents! If that makes me fit into your box, of what you think I am...then I am sorry that you went this long without someone telling you....you may not be American!

I didn't criticize you Patriot. I criticized how the right uses terminology, like patriot, freedeom, etc in their over zealous in your face attitude. Over the top Nationalism is what Nazi Germany what it was. I like Ron Paul too in that he isn't a war monger & wants to legalize pot. He doesn't seem to have the right wing viewpoint that America is the Master Race. Patriot says I might not be an American. That's his kind's type of insult. Hey Patriot, maybe I was born in Kenya? lol. These people think the constitution, antiquated as it is, is the Gospel of God, written by the Founding Fathers who's pens was guided by God. The Founding Fathers, were a bunch of Rich White Men that didn't want to pay their taxes. The Greatness of past America? We slaughtered the Red Man,Had Aparthied Race relations, denied women the vote, & are the only nation to ever nuke a civillian population. I want better for my country.

Hey Patriot, You say I'm not an American. I'm not YOUR TYPE of American & you aren't mine. I was born in Brooklyn, Ny. & have never left this country. I hate the over the top, flag waving, in your face, nationalism that the right exemplfies. It is exactly the same as Nazi Germany. YOU PEOPLE WAVE OUR FLAG JUST LIKE THEY WAVED THEIR SWASTICKER. The only time in modern history we ever fought a Caucasian enemy was Nazi Germany. They thought they were the Master Race & wanted to rule the World. We couldn't stand for that. THAT'S OUR JOB!!!

The violations of Godwin's Law precede you, mm. Please take your meds before some car runs over you as you drift aimlessly in an Alzheimer's dimentia or the hate pollutes your senses. Lying about someone and labeling them vile to which they are not is just as bad as the crime you accuse them of.

You seem like a man of objectivity. I don't find the need to be objective about the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights. A society has to have a foundation in something, or it will fall for everything.....where America apparently is finding itself at this very moment in time! If a congress or a presidents feels the need to move this country away from our foundation.....then they should do it in the light of day, with the tools of critical discussion and the ballot box, Not covert and ridicule tactics! As a libertarian, I will always side with the less is more approach to government. The bottom line for me is simple...Less is more, the people do not need the permission of the government to exist, but the government should always need the people to exist!

Methinks you've drunk the usual leftist Koolaid that any suspect activity now is criminal behavior and the Haterade is dripping out two sides out of your mouth. Proof positive, please? Others, please SFTU.

Mitt Romney was the embarrassment actually. He's Obama lite - and can't hold a candle to Gov Scott. Gov Scott has a backbone and sticks to his principles and his promises. Mitt lost because he did not have clear principles and was willing to sell his soul to the highest bidder. Mitt was a NWO pawn.

Privatizing is a good idea. Your wild accusations that he is directing former government contracts to friends is not backed up by facts - prove your allegation or shut up. LESS GOVERNMENT is always a good thing. Our country was founded on STATE'S RIGHTS and a small central Federal government. We need to get back to that and downsize ALL governments from Federal on down

Harborite - When it comes to Obama "Government is just a way to enrich himself and his wealthy Progressive Party supporters. " Oh and the Tea Party is NOT Republican. It is conservative and the Republican Party has proven themselves to be moving away from conservative values. Only the true conservatives in the Republican party have Tea Party support. Oh and the "tea party" is not a real party - it is more of an ideology and is quite widespread and is in fact having an influence on elections large and small

Wow, you are the definition of the low information voter.MM...oh my...lol

MM - It is just coincidence that the unemployment rate started falling at the exact time that Scott took office? In Nov 2010 Florida's Unemployment rate was 11.2% one of the highest so far. In Jan of 2012 one-year after RS took office the rate was 9.6. Now your saying that is is 8% which is true (8.1%). It seems pretty obvious to me. Let's look at another state that elected a new governor - West Virginia, Earl Ray Tomblin - Nov 2010 unemployment rate 8.5%, Today 7.3%. Not bad and he even had it down to 6.8% in March of 2012. So 1.2% vs 3.2%...I think it is pretty clear that Rick Scott has at least helped close to 270,000 people get back into the labor force. http://www.bls.gov/lau/

Oh please! Another middle road post! I don't have the time, or the care to educate you....but the tools are out their for you to school up! Bottom line...America is being railroaded by the inch is a cinch crowd....The middle road stance will get you run over by a bus...go try it! Stand in the middle off 22 ave north and 4th street! lol

Banking reform? You act as if banking is a operating out of bounds....when in fact, it is a cartel! A global cartel for the New World Order!

Are all of you government employees? People keep talking about the greedy Private Sector, but those greedy corporations supply 87% of the jobs. Yeah, those jobs buy food, clothes, homes, of which taxes are paid to the government whom then pay the government workers. Face it Ladies and Gentlemen, this country was grown on the backs of capitalists. We have only gotten into trouble when the government got too big. Those CEOs on Wall Street have been making those huge salaries and getting those bonus' since the inception of market system. Interesting when we were in a surplus no one complained about their salaries. Before 2008 no one cared. Of course when we come into a recession, that's when everyone has to point the finger to someone. It doesn't matter that those corporations put hundreds of thousands to work, and gave them the opportunity for insurance. Of course when the tough times come, that's when the finger starts to point to someone, so let's point to the wealthy executives whom were at one time a server at a restaurant, a stock boy at a department store, or riding on the back of a garbage truck. They worked hard and enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Now that we are in a recession, and programs need to be cut, that's when the blame game is played. MM - you want to talk about the Nazi's? At least Patriot has the choice to wave his flag. In Nazi, Germany people waved the flag or were killed. Our current leaders have us moving in that same fiscal direction.

New World order? Right wing crazys have been talking about the new world order since I was a young man. I'm supprised you didn't mention the tri lateral commission, or talk about one World govenment. Some day, as the world continues to shrink & cultural differences homogonize, there won't be primative nation states. The World will live as one & war will be over.

MM,
We as a species have never been able to live in harmony, so you think there will be one big government over the entire world and no wars? There will always be differences and their will always be conflict. That is the nature of our species. If we are going to have a rational discussion on the topic, let us be factual and logical. The world you want will never exsist, because we as a species will not allow for it.

Michael D is right in that there will always be conflicts because our species can't settle differences of opinion peacefully, but the World will someday be one World. We will most likly have disagreements over who gets to exploit newly found riches in mineral findings elsewhere in the universe. If we do encounter other life forms, you know there won't be harmony. It is still ineveteble that all the nation states will, at some time, become one. In 1984, Orwell described three nation state area. Eurasia, East Asia, & Oceana. It is like he was Notradamas. Fast forward another 200 years & there won't be any seperations at all. We will always have conflicts, but the powers that will be most likely won't permit acting out of those differences. Even in our own Country,today, there is a Cold War Civil War raging & these pages are proof. There will always be seperation of thought. That is why we need a centeral power to enforce the peace among us.

Who? Low information voter? Yes! I agree!

I like Lori's comment. It cuts out all the bullcrap & gets right to the point. Actually, she says it all.

They ALL SUCK!

The RNC also found a way to keep Ron Paul out also....so, to me, RNC playing Marco Polo with Scott is an endorsement.

Yes, the Libertarian Think Tank gave those four governments an A for his fiscal policy. That is just one aspect of the job. It's nice, but getting an A in one 1/100th of your job. Is just that 1%. Though it's nice for the recongition, it is all it is. They also have said he needs to improve on making a more liberal immigration stance, equal rights for gays and lesbians (ie marriage), civil liberities, and drug legalization (ie pot). So 'nuff said'?

Well of course you do, lefty. Lefties hate Republicans and Righties hate Democrats. What else is new?

Barb,
Love the use of "Lefties" instead of an actual rebuttal. Really helps the agrument. I have my issues with Jeb, but over all he was a decent governor. No where close to one of the worst. Crist or Martinez would be the lower rungs for me, Crist has no loyality to the state and Martinez just made choices that didn't help your average citizen and really hurt the state of florida fiscally/infrastructure.

While Mayor of Tampa he changed from Democrat to Republican. Like Martinez, Crist has loyality and creditibility issues. If he runs as a Democrat it will not go well for him. Too many issues with this term as governor and his attention being deverted by newer offices.

Bob Martinez was a school teacher back in the 60,s and eventually became president of the school teachers union and then mayor of Tampa.He was one of the leaders of the school teachers state wide strike at that time. As mayor of Tampa he screwed the public unions as much as possible. Another 2 faced , lying politician.

And that comment is moving the conversation forward how?

With humor, it's time to lighten up.

LOL! You are a laugh riot, you know that? If you'd care to state your reasons why you think Governor Scott is a pathetic choice, you might have some shred of credibility. But you're just like the other liberal crackjazzes drinking the Haterade and spewing the same. Makes me wonder what type of grades you received but I imagine: A for fiction, F for lack of analysis.