[OrlFlaUsa]

Originally Posted by gypsychic

Feds give Florida 1 more week to come up with rail plan - Breaking Newsletter - BradentonHerald.com

Ray LaHood and President Obama have been really understanding and very pro Florida throughout this entire process. Remember that Florida in 2012 and I hope Obama's words are realized and he gets to come back down and ride it after all.

[Kevin from Tampa]

I've been pretty adamant that I think this is a waste of resources.

That said, if the money's gonna be spent anyway, I'd rather we get it than some other state. I just don't want Florida to be stuck with any cost overruns or anything like that. I want NO RISK. Any state money that might go to this boondoggle would be much better spent on schools, colleges, roads, etc....

So as long as we're COMPLETELY off the hook....sure, come build the train no one will use.

What's another couple of billion on the national debt? We're already so broke that we may as well max out the credit card. We can always let our grandkids pay it off, right?

[Winter_Sucks]

Originally Posted by Kevin from Tampa

I've been pretty adamant that I think this is a waste of resources.

That said, if the money's gonna be spent anyway, I'd rather we get it than some other state. I just don't want Florida to be stuck with any cost overruns or anything like that. I want NO RISK. Any state money that might go to this boondoggle would be much better spent on schools, colleges, roads, etc....

So as long as we're COMPLETELY off the hook....sure, come build the train no one will use.

What's another couple of billion on the national debt? We're already so broke that we may as well max out the credit card. We can always let our grandkids pay it off, right?

So I guess you support cutting spending and raising taxes, so our grandkids don't have to be saddled with debt?

[Kevin from Tampa]

Originally Posted by Winter_Sucks

So I guess you support cutting spending and raising taxes, so our grandkids don't have to be saddled with debt?

I do

[tomno00]

this is the problem with america... we drop a couple of bombs on Baghdad that costs how much? We give BILLIONS of dollars to OTHER COUNTRIES. Do we ever hear about that? And yet when the gov. actually puts forth a legitimate investment project, people have the nerve to start droping all this fiscal conservative B/S. We need to start fixing our problems at home... and this problem is only going to get worse if we don't start thinking now.

[Lariat]

Good.

High speed rail is nothing but political smoke and mirrors.

[chopchop0]

Originally Posted by mango23

Your job is safe if you are a dealer for street drugs. The Governor has made sure he protected his buddies in the pill dispensing business. Almost all the drugs dispensed through pain clinics go to the street, that is just a fact. One of the guys arrested yesterday who owns a chain of these clinics does over a $100,000 a day in the business. Want to bet who he voted for. Scott is in a fact complicit in the murder of US citizens. I can't say it any more plain. This man is just as much a criminal today just as he has always been.

Um wasn't there a big crackdown on pill mills in FL recently?

[mango23]

Originally Posted by chopchop0

Um wasn't there a big crackdown on pill mills in FL recently?

Doesn't mean anything as long as someone can go from place to place using the same script without any records. It is so easy it is a joke. They ask almost no questions, It is all a wink and a nod. Then the pills go straight to the street selling by the pill.

No one wants to put them out of business just have them keep records that would not be any more complex then Office depot uses to track rebates so you can't get the same rebate 50 times for one purchase. This is not even debatable. By the way, Scotts premise that it is an invasion of privacy is ridiculous. Is it an invasion of privacy when they ask for your information when you rent a car or an apartment? Rental car companies may also check credit records and your driving records.

The only thing you can think is Scott is in the pockets of these people or they have threatened his family or something. No one in their right mind would be opposed to keeping people from obtaining drugs illegally, ( such as 50 orders from one script or a doctor who is paid to write scripts) and distributing them on the street. That is all they are trying to do. You think a retired doctor who doesn't even have an office and writes a 100 scripts a day would raise a red flag? That is all we are talking about. Pill clinics are a legal business, they just need to be run legally like any other business, many are not. In fact without the illegal trade they are probably not even a viable business and will disappear.

You know, this is not a political thing, 42 other states are doing it and more coming on board be they they Rep. or Dem. It is a Rick Scott thing, there is something wrong with this man.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-presc...,5656957.story

[MiamiRob]

Originally Posted by tomno00

this is the problem with america... we drop a couple of bombs on Baghdad that costs how much? We give BILLIONS of dollars to OTHER COUNTRIES. Do we ever hear about that? And yet when the gov. actually puts forth a legitimate investment project, people have the nerve to start droping all this fiscal conservative B/S. We need to start fixing our problems at home... and this problem is only going to get worse if we don't start thinking now.

You make a very good point because the cost of high speed rail is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions being wasted in Iraq on a weekly basis. Remember when Cheney told us the Iraq War would pay for itself through it's Oil revenues?
Amazingly we can blow untold billions in a foreign nation trying to rebuild their infrastructure but when it comes to us all of a sudden we can't afford it! The old adage says charity begins at home!

[ozlo]

Originally Posted by Winter_Sucks

So I guess you support cutting spending and raising taxes, so our grandkids don't have to be saddled with debt?

Once you understand the scam that is the Federal Reserve System, you will truly understand that we can NEVER repay the debt, regardless of how much taxes are cut or how much spending is reduced.