You can't run a corporation like a state and you can't run a state like a corporation. There has to be a middle ground, especially where individuals are concerned. Corps, by their very nature, do what they do for the bottom line. People, assets, and decisions are all made, cut, hired, sold, and acquired based on profitability. Rarely will you find a Corp that side steps some profitability for the concerns and welfare of it's employees. They'll do what they're required to do by law and sometimes they're smart enough to understand that a happy worker, is a profitable worker...but in this day and age...that's an exception, not a rule.
Scott's number one priority as a CEO is to trim the fat, which in this case are the people he represents as Gov. A Govs. number one priority is to the well being of the people of the state AND to the states economy. Not an easy task, but you can't go all exclusively robocop crazy in one direction and ignore the other. You can't fire your residents, as much as you may want to, you just can't. Shore things up, tidy up loose ends or unnecessary budget hogs, but you ALWAYS have to be mindful of the people you represent in the process. Does this or that harm a large portion of people and if so, how does it harm them? Does it benefit many or a few...and if it benefits few...will doing so actually benefit more later in a positive manner (economically or otherwise) or does it just continue to benefit the few.
Scott is in straight up CEO mode, get ready for fun times.
I can't wait for the people who elected him, to have to live in the shit world of that choice. Of course they all live in the 'it will never affect me' land of unicorns and gumdrops now.. but the one thing I've learned is Karma is a bitch that comes around and around and around again when you least expect it..
and the irony part, these will be the 1st people complaining when one red cent of theirs is taken/given away.. but sadly by that time, they will have allowed the disintegration of any type of help from the watchdogs that are usually around to stop this madness...
I was going to say you guys are missing the point, but not really...
He doesn't care. He said that months ago, the day he took office. He said "I don't care."
He paid his own money to buy an election that nobody in their right mind will admit to voting for him (well, lilMike...but there's that "right mind" thing right there
) then he swooped into office making our State his own big little biz.
Worse yet...he's beholden to every slimy, sleezebag, dirty, crooked motherfucking pig out there who put him in office. The insurance companies, health care lobbyists, private prison officials, developers, and every other asshole that wants to rape our state of every cent it has before they move on to another state.
I posted it elsewhere, but where's all the screaming and hollering from anyone over him sitting in back rooms with all the insurance big whigs plotting the end of Citizen's? If the Miami Herald hadn't found out about that, do you really think we'd know now?
What other companies is he huddled with in those back rooms planning the rape of our state?
How many jobs would that 11.7 million spent on people to make him look good to the public could have gone to creating real jobs?
And...the biggest question of all: How can this asshole say he wants to limit the size of the state government when he just added 197 asskissers to the state payroll?
How many schoolteachers would that pay?
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