While Cutting Health Care For The Poor, Gov. Scott Pays Less Than $400 A Year For Taxpayer-Subsized Health Insurance Plan

All elected officials should be required to find and pay for their own insurance. Most earn plenty enough to do it. The tax-payer need not subsidize their coverage.

Another fine example of the Republican motto: "Do as I say, not as I do"...

WTF...... My daughter can not aford health insurance for her and her two boys. OH, did I say she lives in Florida. She makes to much money to qualify for the same Insurance that our Politicians have.

Is this not the republican way? Steal from the middle class, the poor and shower it upon the rich, after all these are the "Job" creaters, as for Scott he"s a douche bag! They preach no spending but they like havin tax payers foot their bills.

Eagerly awaiting right wing spin-doctoring that begins with: "But that's different because ...."

What else would you expect from Rick "the Crook" Scott?

this is the same man that was being investigated for fraud when he was running his campaign....now he feeds off the public trough while putting the knife deep into the back of the people who need the protection of government the most....... this is one reprehensible individual.

All of Congress and governors.. state representatives.. should be made to pay the same as the rest of us...

Florida, wake up!

AN ODE TO OUR LORD GOD!

Oh Mr. Scott.....

[Insert your religious music here:]

How I've waited to meet you. I feel it's been centuries I've searched for you. I have brought good tidings. I have given my life to you oh great lord. Will you ever have pity on me? Oh great lord Mr. Scott? I have hammered on this golden idol in your image....but no one wants to help me in my mission. To push you up through the clouds. To reveal you to the world as our one true Alpha and Omega. What shall I tell your creation to do for you? Where will we build your next monument oh great Lord?

Carlos........

Good Job Sport.

Keep shedding the light on this. Before long you will be hunted by our great lord Mr. Scott. He will hath furry on your soul. He will press you down to the pits of hell. For you bring dissension amongst his people.

hehe >)

Just how many people do you trick with your lies. The only
truth is Barrack Hussein Insane Obama will do all in his power to create a
third world country called the United States Of Obama

I look at some of these total criminals, cheaters, manipulators and liars that are elected. I wonder how in the world citizens could be so foolish to vote for these people. I think the voting strictly on a party line is part of it. I think the people are susceptible to the rhetoric of these criminals for various reasons. However, I am beginning to think a huge chunk of it is because the voting is rigged. I just cannot believe there are that many stupid people in the USA.

The elected reps should be forced into the same marketplace as the rest of the country. Only then will we get reforms that will put us in line with other democratic, developed countries around the world.

As for Scott- he is one piece of evil nasty business.

Nice try, leftists! The people of Wisconsin, outside of Communist Madison and its campus, are on to all of you. The failed recal shows this. Spew your garbage to some stupid dropouts or illegals. They'll fall for it.

This is some great information on the Great Depression I've found:

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Timeline.htm

TIMELINE OF GENERAL EVENTS

1920s (Decade)

During World War I, federal spending grows three times larger than tax collections. When the government cuts back spending to balance the budget in 1920, a severe recession results. However, the war economy invested heavily in the manufacturing sector, and the next decade will see an explosion of productivity... although only for certain sectors of the economy.

An average of 600 banks fail each year.

Agricultural, energy and coal mining sectors are continually depressed. Textiles, shoes, shipbuilding and railroads continually decline.

The value of farmland falls 30 to 40 percent between 1920 and 1929.

Organized labor declines throughout the decade. The United Mine Workers Union will see its membership fall from 500,000 in 1920 to 75,000 in 1928. The American Federation of Labor would fall from 5.1 million in 1920 to 3.4 million in 1929.

"Technological unemployment" enters the nation's vocabulary; as many as 200,000 workers a year are replaced by automatic or semi-automatic machinery.

Over the decade, about 1,200 mergers will swallow up more than 6,000 previously independent companies; by 1929, only 200 corporations will control over half of all American industry.

By the end of the decade, the bottom 80 percent of all income-earners will be removed from the tax rolls completely. Taxes on the rich will fall throughout the decade.

By 1929, the richest 1 percent will own 40 percent of the nation's wealth. The bottom 93 percent will have experienced a 4 percent drop in real disposable per-capita income between 1923 and 1929.

The middle class comprises only 15 to 20 percent of all Americans.

Individual worker productivity rises an astonishing 43 percent from 1919 to 1929. But the rewards are being funneled to the top: the number of people reporting half-million dollar incomes grows from 156 to 1,489 between 1920 and 1929, a phenomenal rise compared to other decades. But that is still less than 1 percent of all income-earners.

More facts Concering the Great Depression at:

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Timeline.htm

Time line of the Republican destruction of our economy today:

The CBO in 2001 stated we were on track to pay off our 5 trillion dollars of debt by 2012.

We got George Bush who reversed our responsible fiscal course and doubled our debt to 10 trillion before Obama was elected.

The Bush Tax cuts = 4 trillion over 10 years.

The Interest on the Republican debt = 200 billion a year.

The Bush Tax cuts and the interest on the resulting debt would alone pay for Medicare.

Medicare isn't the problem, the Bush Tax cuts are the problem.

The Reagan top rate tax cuts also cost 4 trillion over 10 years, 12 trillion over 30 years.

During those 30 years of Reagan top rate tax cuts (70% to now 35%) the Middle Class has been in decline, America's prison population has increased 6 fold, America has become more dependent on foreign oil, more dependent on foreign debt, and more dependent on foreign manufacturing.

Top tax rates President Wilson's second term = 70%.

Top tax rates under Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower =90%.

Top tax rates under Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter = 70%.

Average Tariff rates 1945 to 1970 = 6%, 1975 to 1995 = 3%, 2000 to now 1.3%.

Manufacturing was 53% of our economy in 1965, in 1988 39%, in 2004 9%.

America has a 250 billion dollar trade deficit with China, who has an average tariff rate of 25%, good for their economy!

America imports 70% of our oil needs for a 250 billion a year trade deficit in oil.

For 250 billion a year we could install a $20,000 solar panel system and a $5,000 solar water heater system on 10 million homes. Over 10 years, for the same cost as we now pay for the interest on our republican debt, we could install solar energy systems on all 100 million homes in America, and that would generate 1 tera-watt of power and free 100 billion a year that we now spend on energy bills.

We could convert current energy bills directly into a clean domestic energy jobs program by selling 30 year bonds to install solar energy systems. The power corporations could collect utility bills as usual to pay off those bonds within the 40 year lifespan of the solar energy systems.

The solar water heaters would reduce those utility bills.

If only we would spend money on our economy like we were fighting World War II, or Creating a Highway interstate system.

Government Spending creates jobs, no matter what lies Republicans tell you. America's Middle Class was never more prosperous than when we had 70%+ top tax rates and Government infrastructure spending.

America's Infrastructure GPA: D

Estimated 5 Year Investment Need: $2.2 Trillion

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org

Construction unemployment is now at 13.6%

Roosevelt began relatively modest deficit spending that arrested the slide of the economy and resulted in some astonishing growth numbers. (Roosevelt's average growth of 5.2 percent during the Great Depression is even higher than Reagan's 3.7 percent growth during his so-called "Seven Fat Years!")

When 1936 saw a phenomenal record of 14 percent growth, Roosevelt eased back on the deficit spending, overly worried about balancing the budget. But this only caused the economy to slip back into a recession.

Between 1940 and 1945, the GDP nearly doubled in size, from $832 billion to $1,559 billion in constant 87 dollars. And this occurred as deficit spending soared, to levels Keynes had earlier and unsuccessfully recommended to Roosevelt.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Timeline.htm

To Rebuild the American Middle Class Dream we MUST REPEAL the Republican Tax Cut Scheme!

I haven't paid that little per month since I began work, ya know, the good ole days 1970

I suppose we can rant and rave about how those such as Gov. Scott, Walker, Perry, and other elected Republicans are bumping our heads and living off the taxpayer-funded items as part of paying for their own families' needs, despite earning a good paycheck from these same taxpayer dollars.

We see how mainstream americans are asked to accept the pain of economic sacrifices, yet nothing changes in the finances of these elected officials. They are not part of the so-called 'shared sacrifice'. They are teflon-coated.

Okay, this has been talked about ever since Obama has been in office. I wonder how the Republicans are able to convince so many supposedly outraged voters who claim to see them for who they are.......how is that the voters keep voting for them?

Somebody ain't as angry with the Tea Party and the Republicans as they are claiming to be. It appears to be the majority of the voters.

.........unless there is something wrong with how we actually count the votes.