Florida Governor Rick Scott and U.S. President Barack
Obama
Recently, Florida governor, Rick Scott, was on the
receiving end of a profane tirade in Gainsville, Florida. A
woman slammed Scott in a Starbucks over budget cuts he
has made in office regarding women's health care . It is
understandable the government would seek to balance the
budget. However, cutting funds to the disabled, pregnant
women and poor in any society, while government
officials have luxury chauffeured cars, credit cards and
big expense accounts, is unethical and inhumane.
The Obama Administration has cut funding for the
disabled (both children and adults) on a federal level,
which puts undue pressure on states, while people in the
president's cabinet live the high life off the American
taxpayers, via first class travel accommodations, padded
expense accounts and big pay packets that are undeserved
and inappropriate. Obama also gives billions of dollars
in U.S. taxpayer money to his pet projects, such as
solar projects, which have now failed.
It's amazing how the government can make sweeping cuts
to programs for children, the disabled, disadvantaged
and financially impoverished, but as the Tupac lyric
states, "They've got money for wars but can't feed the
poor." The government spends trillions on wars, but
makes massive cuts to programs to help the needy.
A partially blind old lady asked me to read to her a
letter addressed to her from the disability office in
Florida, regarding how much assistance she would be
getting and it stated $379.00 per month and that they
had begun to reduce the previous figure by $79.00
monthly. I thought to myself, how can she live on that.
The most basic one bedroom apartment in Miami, Florida
is approximately $700.00 per month. Yet government
officials in Florida and Washington, D.C. are being
chauffeured around in $80,000 luxury cars on the
taxpayer's dime, when they can afford to buy their own
cars out of their paychecks.
Warning: video contains explicit language
I know several people who work with the disabled in the
State of Florida. It is a rewarding field. However, the
government makes it difficult for those who take care of
the disabled, due to budget cuts, excessive amounts of
paperwork and highly stressful file reviews. This also
becomes burdensome for the disabled having to deal with
the massive amounts of paperwork. People are sick and
the government is demanding the disabled fill out enough
paperwork to fill up a book.
Government disability offices in Florida are also
questionably run. They tell the disabled to come in for
reviews and monitoring, like it's parole, then hours
before closing send people with impairments home, with
instructions to come back the next day, as they are not
of the belief they can see them on that day. So why tell
people to come in. It is highly unprofessional and
callous.
When you realize how much people with physical
impairments go through to get up out of bed, bathe, get
dressed and take transportation, then to be told come
back the next day, hours (not minutes) before a
disability office closes, it is disgraceful, vile and
nonsensical. You can always tell a lot about an
administration by the way it treats the poor and
disabled.
Side Bar: There will be follow-ups to this article
shortly and again around election time.
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