New Gov. Rick Scott-Fl Wants Everyone Off Unemployment, NOW!

Across the state of Florida, industry and big business have not found a niche of satisfied employees. Workers in Florida are handed a minimum wage, which does not cover the cost of living in Florida.

Medical bills, cost of housing, cost of utilities, food costs and transportation costs are the same as any other state north of Florida. The wages are low and the earnings are kept down because of the big demands of the theme parks to play along with their pay-plan.

Any worker will head off to town for a better wage, instead of choosing to stand in the summer heat bundled up in a rabbit costume. Utilities are expensive in the summertime, someone has to be able to pay that bill. A minimum wage earner cannot survive on a small token by which to buy food, etc.

With gas over $3 and heading "north", it is harder for an truck driver...a sales rep on the road...to earn a living, when sales are down. The math does not equate...low wages and a high-cost for survival.

The new governor needs to take a long vacation and let the residents of Florida get on with the job of trying to survive. No one can relate to the hardships of reality, that has not tasted hunger.

Yeh, to the new wave of politically correct....the wealth in America grows on the backs of those with tears in their eyes. Always has been that way since the beginning of time...and will probably continue till we pass. The only salvation is that the "meek shall inherit the earth"! "Wow"! What a party that will be!!!

Long before, I ever heard the name Rick Scott I had business to conduct in his present home-town, Naples, Fl. In the Holiday Inn restaurant with no one in the place except two men, I sat at the bar and ate my dinner.

I listened to the men talk about a job that one had just done where the woman-of-the-house complained about the water running in the wrong direction in the canal going through her house. She wanted the whole project torn up and redone.

A canal in her house, in Naples, Florida, that she complains about. And the bathroom sink faucet needs to be replaced in my house, at a cost that I cannot afford. I asked God for a favor that night, to NEVER let me die, in Naples, Fl as I did not want to have to stand in that line behind all of those overly wealthy people that have no idea of what the "outsiders" are struggling with in order to survive.

The lengthy line would snake around the clouds and be just too long of a wait to get up to see the Keeper-of-the-Gate, St. Peter. By the time, he asked all of those rich fools, "what did you do with YOUR millions of dollars"? And they answered, "Well, you see it's like this...."! I'd be hungry and cranky.

I decided that I needed to MAKE sure that I die in a poor town...and the line will be short and sweet...and fast-moving! "Next"......"Go, right in"!

The jobsites list the same jobs over and over again...no changes listed from year to year. Same companies....hire and fire. Wages in some jobs are low and there is no guarantee of any future. Just work, eat, sleep and go back to work the next day.

The sin of a right-to-work state is that NO employee has any right to get that last check at the wage they earned. I have two checks still in the hands of employers in two states...NV and Fl....no hope to ever receive those checks. I called the state...and they both told me "too bad"!

For those that think the unemployed are not making an effort, take a gander at the few columns now printed in newspapers that used to HOLD pages of classified ads. No longer. Web sights for employment are repeating the same jobs, week to week. One hundred people or more at the gate, does not mean anything!

Wake-up and see what is really going on! When a man is hungry...he searches for a victim. Crime is up. When a woman is desperate, children get left at home without a caretaker, while Mom looks for work.

Companies have the upper hand and they will play that ball as hard as possible. With a new hire, he can last literally till the benefits are due and then his chance of staying in that job are slim.

Engineers are looking for jobs sweeping floors in warehouses. Long haul truck drivers are cutting lawns. Secretaries are working at burger joints. Nurses are now working two jobs: one in the hospital and a second job to make up for lost income.

The politicians are not going home hungry to a dark house. The policemen have been laid off from duty. The prison guards are expected to be "happy" about going to work with prisoners spitting on them and cussing at them all day long. The elderly lie in beds without diapers on their bodies, because it is easier to roll them off the sheets in the morning then it is to spend the money on more aides to go in the middle of the night to change those pull-ups.

You get what you ask for when you treat people without respect...look at Egypt right now...how much longer before that wave of unhappiness starts to spread and cross the oceans?

Research on Richard L. Scott/aka/Rick Scott, Governor of Florida:

nashvillecitypaper.com July 28, 2008 : "HCA (Hospital) Heirs Could Make China Nashville's New Health Care Frontier". Involving: Rick Scott, Thomas Frist, Jr and Chinese-business partner, Henry Zhou.

CHC (China Health Care) Rick Scott, Charles Elcan (son-in-law of Frist), Tom Frist, Jr & Henry Zhou, building hospitals in China. China Health Care Partnership registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Rick Scott/Richard L. Scott Investments, LLC, 1400 Gulfshore Blvd. N., Naples, Fl

Registered agent: Cathy Gellatly

Companies under Rick Scott: Columbia Collier Mangement, LLC (filed Jan. 6, 2011)

Columbia Collier Properties, 700 11th St. S., Naples, Fl

Richard L. Scott Investments: 1. 28 W. 44th St., NY

2. 100 Forest St., Stamford, CT

Possibly connected to: Drives, LLC, Fulton, ILL-Case & New Holland

Tennessee Bowling Alley

Airco Industires, Inc. (Photo Etch-Ft. Worth, TX)

Vestar Executives, NY

Martin Currie China

Parkway Holdings, Lmtd (Parkway Health)

GE & Philips Electronics, China Investments

*Alfred (AL) Hoffman-Connected to GE Investments in Healthcare

(Hoffman major financier in campaigns for (all) Bushes) former CEO

of WCI Development, Bonita Springs, Fl.

New corporation: Hoffman One Properties, LLC with Charles Brasington (WCI)

<major players in over-development of Florida> REGISTERED: Bermuda

as Foreign Limited Liability Company, Pres. Charles Brasington (2008).

Hoffman One Properties, LLC, 8695 College Pkwy, Ft. Myers, Fl

Jeb Bush, as Governor of Florida made concessions for Tenet Health Care, under indictment with the SEC & Medicare for FRAUD with Medicare & Medicaid. Jeb Bush is now on the board of Tenet Health Care (2007). Jeb Bush and Associates, LLC, The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables. He used to be a neighbor to Al Hoffman in Coral Gables, Fl.

Former link to George W. Bush as co-owner of Texas Rangers Team

+++If. anyone thinks that the residents in Florida have a fair shake at survival economically, they ought to do some homework in the middle-of-the-night, as I do. The cards are stacked against the workers.

Florida caters to those with money coming-in-the-door. Those newcomers have the ability to survive w/o bothering the system. They are "givers" and not "takers". The fear there, is that they are TAKEN by every financial advisor with a printed sign on bond paper. The realtors have bled the state with over-inflated pricing, long before the rest of the states started to weep.

In the 1960's it was just as difficult to find meaningful employment as it is today in 2011. College graduates left the state and had to compete with the better-educated students in the north. Disney World came in and under the cloak of secrecy and bought up growing fields in Osceola & Orange Counties without paying fair market value.

Developers followed building tract homes, as WCI did all over the state. With the blessing of Jeb Bush, WCI bought land for retirees and put HCA Hospitals on those properties. WCI declared bankruptcy when the stench of Chinese-dry-wall suits started to be filed.

Al Hoffman slipped away to Portugal as the Ambassador appointed by George W. Bush, as the state of Florida faced a crises with the new homes built by Hoffman's Company, WCI Development.

Crooks will always have back-room meetings, where the stomachs get filled with rich food and the games begin to form in different ways.

A medium-income wage earner is now struggling as the pace of the cost of living increases rapidly. The lower-income wage earner is not able to keep up with the increased expenses and begins to feel the hammer-on-the-head pain.

With a governor that clearly has no interest in the present day job, but with possible sights on Wash. DC with Jeb Bush, the state of Florida is in serious decline. The candy jar is empty and it does not look like anyone will be coming along to fill-it-up any time soon.

Instead of blaming the workers, it is time way-over-due to put the blame back on the employers. No more nonsense. Most employees are showing up and doing their jobs. They put up with poor conditions at work, sometimes. They put up with ignorant nasty bosses, sometimes. They put up with low wages, sometimes.

Let's be honest, MOST workers do NOT want to be taking home a LOT LESS income on a state-issued check for unemployment. There is no way to pay loans, mortgages, purchase food, buy gas for a vehicle, see the dentist or the doctor, take the cat to the vet or buy a milkshake and a hamburger on a few dollars a day. Doesn't work out!

Stop putting the blame on the workers...they did not structure the budgets......they did not employ the bad accountant....work with a manipulative board....or watch the boss walk away with the bank's loan and put it in a bank in the islands.

It is a crock to constantly badger workers and blame them. They show up for work...do the job...collect the check and go home. In the meantime, the bean counters notice tha the furnance needs to be replaced....the power wench is tied up in knots...the semi-truck is on its last part of the lease...and wham down comes the hammer. Someone out there in the warehouse HAS to lose their job.

The secretary forgot to put in the right numbers for the order for the hospital. Now, the hospital is not getting the right product. Back to the owner, who decides that the account can now be a "house" account to keep the costs down as a favor to the hospital to pacify them for a huge mistake. The sales rep, who relied on that order every week for his income, can just absorb the loss of his biggest account in the office.

Then when the rep keeps losing accounts as the boss keeps raising the prices, the rep loses his job. With a signed-non-compete, sales reps cannot easily move into other companies selling the same products. A nice legal binder on being able to replace that job.

Start blaming the corporations...and the companies that fire without cause! If, they cannot prove to the state that an employee was a threat or a thief, then implement a fine. For each employee that is dismissed, charge back to the company portion of that worker's wages.

The company wants to improve the profit margin...fire the employees. A company wants to please the stock holders with higher dividends....fire the employees. If a company cannot budget and stay in business, then it should learn how to turn off the lights and the TV's in the lounges. WE all pay for companies to be able to fire-at-will and then the employee is out looking for a job, when there are none.

Make employers responsible. Scott wants to eliminate corporate taxes in Florida. Whoopee...maybe he will also offer bonus money for new signs on empty buildings and free rent for a year, too? There are no guarnatees when you "do give aways" that your date is going to marry you.

You have to instill in a company a sense of responsibility. I do not see that. I see companies doing as they will and the employees get tossed out, because junior has NO idea on how to run the business since "daddy" died.

Without good jobs...no employee gets to work. Without good standards in business, no employee stands a chance in being able to work today....next week or next year.

One company on the west coast of Florida writes up the specs for recycling asphalt on the roads across the state. They hand those specs for jobs to the FDOT to get approval. With the donations at election time, they are on a special list.

They get the jobs...they make millions and millions of dollars every year on road construction jobs...yet, the employees have been burned with checks that bounce...vendors never got paid....and the company hired a felon to run a Federal job on the road.

So, who wins? The state wins...the boss wins...the employees lose.

lovelylinda....Only the little birds get thrown to the wolves. Rick Scott "learned" his trade in a legal firm in Dallas, when he first started out. He is now on paper worth over $300 million...so, he will never get the burn.

He & another man involved in the HCA/Columbia Hospital scandal in the proposed take-over of Tampa General Hospital (TGH) got the heads-up and out the door they went. Medicare FRAUD is a tremendous drain on the program. Yet, the participants in the program have that as their only source for medical care.

Just putting into google: nursing home scandals; healthcare corporation scandals, etc. brings up history that makes a spirit cry in anguish. We become the victims of those that finagle the books and steal the money.

In receiving those medical bills that go to Medicare for payment, time and again those bills are the same DOS (date of service) and they have been paid. Yet, the doctors repeat the billing for the same event.

Red Flag Time.....the thieves count-on not being caught! Hospitals are notorious for billing for breathing...in reviewing those bills it is important to go line item by line item.

The frightening part is that people like Rick Scott have so many friends in the business, like Jeb Bush, Al Hoffman and Tom Frist that they have already figured out the next game. They don't get slapped, because their money pots are so tremendous!

We can only "hope"! It seems that America is full of people all going in different directions. The "me" group has their agenda for "more". The "meek" group is waiting for a better day. The "mainstream" group is praying that one goes away and the other one "wakes" up!

Before you run to Florida for warmer days, take a look and see if anyone there is happy?

Not now, with Rick Scott running through the halls with an ax and leaping on any program that works to "help" the citizens. He espouses big business and likes the way that money smells. People do not count, money does.

There in lies the danger, solostar....trusting. Today's world is not as it once was & for as long as I see the years add on, I weep for those behind me. The "trick" is to search for key words and find companies, out of Fl. that are big enough to want to "move" you.

Florida is the land of "easy-pickins", as the 1920's showed when the mobsters first set-up in the state. The model has not changed, just different ethnic names. Take from the elderly and skim off from the middle-class and leave the poor jumping off the bridges.

When, the beaches changed into condo havens and the streets of Kissimmee were sold to foreign buyers, the orange groves were torn down...and the houses went up. The reality is that with unhappy people, no company will move into Fl to stay, if they even come.

The new governor, Scott, a one-man show taking all that he can get....will ruin the state and leave it in ashes. A shame that the citizens in the state are so blind and so foolish!

But, then there are other states suffering under the direction of governors with poor judgements for the residents, too. More or less keeps people across the nation without a lot of hope.

For several years, I have done job searches in a few areas for people. In the past, I was fairly satisfied with the placements. Now, it is nearly impossible. I spend hours before the sun rises combing national and local areas.

The market holds a repeat of company names that cycle week-to-week, month-to-month. Some companies are so weak in their credit-line that they actually cannot pay the employee a check in the beginning period.

Some companies that were backing sales reps, now want them to be "contractors" w/o wages only commissions. No benefits. No reimbursements for expesnes.

Well known national companies are not holding employees in positions till retirement. No bonuses and longer hours for salaried employees. Million dollar company bounced the payroll twice on a new employee.

I worked for a horse trainer/jockey, once that trained Steinbrenner's horses, as a bookkeeper. Cozy little cottage away from the farm house, near the paddock where a horse would come over and nudge me at lunch time.

The ceiling was wet and the pieces falling on the couch had to be brushed off the blanket daily. The accountant took out the books and sat down beside me to show me. The first thing that he told me was on Friday, when I got my paycheck to "rush" to the bank quickly after work and "CASH" the check.

I stood in-line on Friday's at the boss' bank waiting to cash that check and seeing the farm hands doing the same thing. The economy is at a blackened low point. Instead of beating up those that are unable to find a job...any job...that will be there again on Monday...the politicians want to tear down the job seekers...and then stomp on them with high heels and metal-tipped boots.

Compassion in this country is now gone! Surely, in the "end" when we are called to task for our journey here.....some people will have a LOT of explaining to do as they get sent to the "corner of shame"!

Rick Scott/aka/Richard L. Scott Investments, etc....has several businesses around the US and in Florida. He along with Tom Frist, in Tennessee took money that they made on the HCA Hospital deal and have invested it in China Health Care.

When, a crook does not want attention paid to his actions, he points "over there".....while everyone looks "over there", the fox eats the chickens...doesn't even bother moving those chickens. It takes a long time evidently for people to turn around and look behind them!

Anyone with a brain inside a skull would know that a job pays more than unemployment pennies on the dollar. The very few percentage of unemployed people that are slow to get motivated may have many reasons....not enough education....worn out already from looking and have no hope...illness...who knows?

There USED to be job counselors, but they were fired, too. The VA has a counselor available for the unemployed vets. But, they get overwhelmed by the mere numbers of people asking for aid in their search.

Why can't the millionaire/billionaires invest right here in American jobs? Because, Americans cannot survive on $10 p/hr. The corporations can get workers to be happy with $3 p/hr....profit...profit....profit!!!

What these companies "forgot" to realize is that all foreign countries are susceptible to upheaval within that territory. How dumb they must feel now, as they start having another glass of wine and worry about their investment in foreign properties as the populace now revolts being sick of low wages....and harmful governments.

The "meek shall inherit the earth".....and the "rich" can look at that eye in the needle and only "hope" they can figure out how to get through it.

I lived overseas, over 25 years ago and saw how hated the Americans were in that area then. I saw the workmanship and the craftwork of people squatting down to sell their wares off of the road side.

I remember the days, when $3 p/hr in this country was considered a "good" wage. One hundred dollars a week was what a family of four lived on in America. That family had two cars and a nice house. They worked very hard 6 days a week in their own business...but the cost of living complied with those salaries.

Today, I look at coupons just to be able to stop at the store...for a "few" items. We are losing the battle in this country for survival. We are not able to "gift-out" to those in the third world that depended on our aid. We have nothing left.

The companies in America shot the workers in the foot when they moved operations to Asia...Mexico....India...China....South America. The wood furniture from the Carolinas was made overseas. The fashion jewelry in the stores was made overseas. At one time, we KNEW where the plant was that made the refrigerators.....not any more.

Those corporate leaders must be having indegestion right now as they see the fires burning all around those plants in other countries where they cannot call up the local police for protection. Good luck, Walmart....GM, GE, HP etc.

The cycle is turning back to those that made those decisions based on greed. Their liability insurance will rise. The trucks will not be able to drive through the streets with gangs of angry protestors burning cars on bridges. The killings in Mexico will stop the trucks from crossing the towns and being able to get the GM parts to market in America.

Now, let's see how fast those CEO's squirm and try to recoup their losses? No man/or/woman will ever go back to being used again...by those that want to earn more gold on their tired backs. The anger is rising...and the days are going to get very noisey...unless some people start opening up those cold dark hearts and see the sunshine of giving back.

Gov. Rick Scott-Fla is the epitome of a man that cannot hear and is hell-bent on his own way, no matter what the cost. If, Fla. agrees to more development under Scott, the nail-is-in-the-coffin.

There has never been a major move of companies to move to Fla. The game that Scott plays now, is to tease with the prospect. Property insurance liability is now costing residents more because Scott has allowed the increase. Limits are now being heavily placed on the unemployed to "magically" return to work on Monday.

The state does not see beyond the pockets of the tourist market and the developers. One is inconsistent, as it relies on workable dollars. The other source is destrutive and a "taker".

Too many homes now in Florida sit empty, for w/o employment there are no buyers. To sustain growth, residents have to be happy, hopeful and employed. Nothing else will do.

Why would a date want to "court" an old-washed up worn out "broad" without a smile? Until, the taxpayers are pleased with the response from those that they VOTE into office, the "broad" will not smile and the "date" will wander-off to another area.

The "rich" just don't get it! Until, they experience hunger.....they know of little anguish. Until, they sit down and put out 100 resumes......they know no fear!

Wealth does not necessarily come from laboring a 40 hr. week for 10 years...or 20 years...or investments in today's market. Super wealth comes on the backs of "someone" who was taken down the river and buried.

With Rick Scott/Richard L. Scott, Investments and etc....his paper-worth being over 334 million dollars reflects that some bodies are buried under the mud, per se......as in the crime of Medicare FRAUD that his company was involved with.

People have no respect for crooks, so it is VERY DIFFICULT TO SMILE IN FLORIDA!!

I've only had two hours of sleep....................and I am now singing "your" song....sad as it is, we do have to voice our opinions loudly and make them HEARD.....! No more hints...no more nice guy....no more hope!

Till this country takes a stand against the likes of the "me, first" politicians, we will not be happy with ourselves or anyone else. Feeling like a victim, only destroys the spirit....and being able to sing with happiness, makes the day seem "just fine".

You know that you can "preach" till you are hoarse....you can dance and people won't look...but, when they are hungry, they always want to take just one more shot at winning.

I wish people would stop being guinea pigs...and stop letting others use them till they are hoarse and hungry.