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Wisconsin Democrats Stage Walkout to Deny Union-Busters a Quorum

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mr.fusion2/17/2011 12:28:48 pm PST

re: #54 Jadespring

What’s going on?

Well for starters yesterday our Governor (a man who was the former CEO of Columbia/HCA and was forced to resign in disgrace after Columbia was forced to pay $1.7 BILLION in fines for Medicaid fraud and then spent $73 million on :30 second ads to buy the Governor’s mansion. A man who has appeared on Fox & Friends 4 times the past 3 weeks but hasn’t met with a single newspaper or local TV station in the state yet.)…anyways…yesterday he turned down $2.4 billion in federal funds for a leg of high speed rail which would have gone from Tampa to Orlando. The next leg would have gone from Orlando to Miami, and the Orlando to Jacksonville making Florida the blueprint for nationwide High Speed rail. Why did he turn it down you might be wondering…..well it’s something we’re all wondering as well. He did meet with two “leaders” of Florida 9-12 projects last week who demanded he turn it down. Come to find out he hasn’t seen the feasibility study yet which was due out next week and didn’t even take bids on the project (with the rumor being private companies would have picked up any cost over runs or revenue shortages caused by lack of ridership. Wouldnt have cost the taxpayers in Florida a dime.)

But that’s just the latest. I would encourage you to google “Rick Scott’s education plan” and take a look at what he wants to do. TPM called it a blue print for fraud. He’s stopped ALL regulations his first day in office. That includes environmental and “pill mill” regulation. Again, I would encourage you to google “Rick Scott” and “pill mills.” It’s a serious problem that Florida was trying to address but Hizzoner decided to halt. Keep in mind this is a man who owns a chain of walk-in clinics in Florida that is currently under investigation for fraud. Keep in mind that this is a man who, when he released his tax returns in his run for office, showed that he paid a paltry 14% income tax on tens of millions of profit. It also showed that the only charity he gave to was “Conservatives for Patients Rights,” an anti-health care reform arm that he set up AS A FREAKING CHARITY. Keep in mind that his chain of walk-in clinics makes money off of people who don’t have insurance. They literally do not accept people with insurance. Wondering why he’s fighting Obama-care so hard?

I could literally go on and on. He wants to reduce unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks. He wants to drug test unemployment recipients. He wants to disband the Department of Community Affairs…if you don’t live in Florida that probably means nothing to you, but again I would encourage googling “Rick Scott” and “Department of Community Affairs.”

And through all this we still have to keep in mind —- this is a man who defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, TriCare, etc etc out of BILLIONS. This is a man who was sued because his hospitals were kicking Neo-Natal patients out of ICU units weeks earlier than recommended because it was more cost effective. This man is out of control and for some reason he continues flying under the radar. I wish the national media would start paying attention to this guy.