Filed under: Budget cuts, Corruption, Florida, Government, Greed, Politics, Rick Scott | Tags: Deregulation, election, election promises, Florida, special interests
Drug Testing State Employees is a Big-Government Boondoggle
Published Sunday, April 3, 2011 3:00 am
by Dennis Maley, The Bradenton Times
I have been very fair to Rick Scott thus far, in reminding readers that most of his actions were exactly what the governor promised on the campaign trail, so unless they were part of the minority of Floridians who did not vote for him (or among the nearly half of eligible voters who didn’t bother to vote, and in my book have little room to complain), they are getting their product as advertised.
Rick Scott the candidate told you he was going to deregulate every industry he could. Rick Scott the governor has followed through. Ditto for land development, Medicaid privatization and education. We’re getting what was sold to us. However, it didn’t take long for the governor to start pushing the sort of hypocrisy-ridden policies that advance special interests, while going against his purported ideological beliefs. This is where all Floridians have a right to call him on it.
There is no evidence of ramped drug use among people on public assistance in our state. In fact, more than a decade ago Florida embarked on a costly program to drug test public assistance recipients, spending millions of dollars to learn that the epidemic of the drug-using welfare check casher didn’t exist.
Read the rest at The Bradenton Times website.
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