Rick Scott's Veto List $615 Million

[Yossarianlives]

Line item veto power is a dangerous thing.  The fact the president doesn't have it forces him to compromise and leads to a more balanced (although sometimes less productive) legislative session.  It is one of those things that sounds like a great idea until you see it operate!

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[wsansewjs]

Good grief, Rick Scott just GRAPED us all!

-Josh

[Ocklawaha]

Good grief, Rick Scott just GRAPED us all!

-Josh

So THAT'S what that was... There for a moment I thought I had a bad case of chiggers!
The man is a thief and a felon and because he can buy his way out, he's now the governor,
Damn! And y'all thought Colombia was corrupt? HA!

OJ SIMPSON? ROBERT BLAKE? JACKO? RICK SCOTT? Does anyone else see a pattern here?

OCKLAWAHA

[Ocklawaha]

Here are vetoes to higher education:

School......... Initial................ Vetoed.............. Remaining........ % Vetoed
FAMU.......... $2,514,769 .......... $2,514,769 .......... $0 .................... 100%
FAU............. $3,251,463 .......... $3,251,463 .......... $0 .................... 100%
FGCU........ $11,029,524........... $9,500,000 .......... $1,529,524 .......... 86%
FIU............. $7,827,644........... $6,000,000 .......... $1,676,584 .......... 77%
FSU............. $7,676,584........... $6,000,000 .......... $1,676,584 .......... 78%
NCF............ $6,335,336........... $4,650,000........... $1,685,336 .......... 73%
UCF........... $21,346,431.......... $19,068,627.......... $2,277,804.......... 89%
UF ............ $11,297,085.......... $11,297,085 .......... $0 ................... 100%
UNF ............ $1,972,294 .......... $1,972,294 .......... $0 .................... 100%
USF .......... $48,884,206 ..........$11,336,294 .......... $37,547,912.......... 23%
UWF............ $1,771,079 .......... $0......................... $1,771,079 ........... 0%

These aren't for normal operating budgets (which also got slashed), but for specific projects. UF got zero approved and FSU got 1.6 million. Meanwhile USF got $37 million for a new campus in Lakeland.

Regionalism is one of the main reasons Florida is a mediocre state despite all of our advantages.

2442 G...............................Economic Aid - Florida Panhandle................................6,000,000

Yeah, regionalism, now the section of the state with an official secession movement has an excuse!

If Ricky really wanted to help Florida he could have cut the hell out of the budget and not touched such major programs and funding as schools, and economic aid, by using a microscope technique. But the boy might have gotten callouses on his pinkie.

OCKLAWAHA

[Jimmy]

Someday we'll all learn that elections have consequences.  A consequence of electing a tea party governor is tea party governance.  Who needs education, police support, public investment, or social services? 

We do.  But we can hang that up until 2015 in Florida.

[tufsu1]

The Gov. also vetoed $2.5 million in fuding for Florida's 11 regional planning councils...and for TBARTA...nice!

http://www.tbarta.com/content/tbarta-responds-governor-scott’s-decision-veto-state-funds

[Tacachale]

The higher ed vetoes are going to be bad news for UNF, and it's a shame, as it's about the most fiscally responsible university in the system. Their reward for good management is to have every penny of their (fairly small) requested funds cut. Talk about "punishing success".

[jcjohnpaint]

have him cut his own salary , like our Mayor-elect did. 

How about we cut the slimes total salary and get him the hell out of here.  What a fn piece of shit.  Get rid of reverse robin hood

[JeffreyS]

But I thought we so much extra money we could cut corporate taxes.  This is BS and the shame those who voted for him and those who couldn't even be bothered to show up and vote should be painful.  Months of vowing not to cut education.  Florida's financial crisis for our state government is so over blown and being taken advantage of to dismantle social and environmental services.  Florida has a diverse economy that is suffering a very temporary set back.

Really those of you who fan the flames of reducing taxes in this low tax state and cutting education spending in this underfunded state (49th per student) are being immoral.

[jcjohnpaint]

But I thought we so much extra money we could cut corporate taxes.  This is BS and the shame those who voted for him and those who couldn't even be bothered to show up and vote should be painful.  Months of vowing not to cut education.  Florida's financial crisis for our state government is so over blown and being taken advantage of to dismantle social and environmental services.  Florida has a diverse economy that is suffering a very temporary set back.

Really those of you who fan the flames of reducing taxes in this low tax state and cutting education spending in this underfunded state (49th per student) are being immoral.

yes yes

[Yossarianlives]

My favorite thing about Rick Scott is how he pushed for a bill to drug test welfare recipients, thereby increasing the likelihood his "wife's" business would profit, then turned around and said that his "wife's" business would sell to prevent any conflicts of interest.  What a pain to drive up the value of your company and then sell it.  Being a public official is a tough job when t only nets you a few mil.  LOL 

[BigGuy219]

We can't spend money we don't have.

It's terrible to have to cut things, but the bottom line is that we can't afford it right now.

We have to get this spending under control, so that we don't end up buried in a mound of debt.

[JeffreyS]

Wrong. Hate to dismiss you so out of hand but it is so simple to see what is happening.

[BigGuy219]

Wrong. Hate to dismiss you so out of hand but it is so simple to see what is happening.

What's happening is that from 1990-2005 we all got fat and rich and stupidly assumed it would just go on forever.

Well, it turns out that wasn't the case after all. So we have to modify our expectations, tighten our belts, and get out of the fiscal mess before we have to sell the state to the Chinese.

[Yossarianlives]

We can't spend money we don't have.

It's terrible to have to cut things, but the bottom line is that we can't afford it right now.

We have to get this spending under control, so that we don't end up buried in a mound of debt.

While debt can be bad, the idea that the Gov't running up a debt is totally a bad thing is a common misconception - when in a recession it is important for the government to spend money (seeing as though consumption, capital investment and net exports typically all drop).  This leads to the other 3 proponents of GDP (through the expenditures approach) to increase leading to a rise in GDP and the multiplier effect, therefore improving the economy (note, multiplier effect is not the same as trickle down economics).  The tricky part comes when the economy improves and it is necessary to increase taxes to help pay off the debts incurred when the economy was on the downside of the economic.  No one wants to do it (raise taxes when things are good) so they don't, resulting in a debt that never gets paid off.  It is simple cyclical budget economics, but no one likes to mention it.