Can Fl. Gov. Rick Scott take away minimum wage? He is chopping Protection for the Elderly Now. What's Next? WAKE-UP! We are now gut-less wanderers w/no place to stand.

The new governor in Florida is proving to be a maniac.

Scott has already started cutting into the system of protection for the elderly locked away in the care system. The facilities are wrought with reports of abuse and neglect. The United States has listed in every single state case after case of neglect, abuse, starvation, dehydration, bedsores, theft, sexual rapes on the elderly.

The facilities will keep the costs down, meaning the food is not nutritional, the staff is poorly paid and the facilities are infested with viruses and roaches. An LPN went into check on the elderly man in a facility in Fla. She turned on the light to see roaches crawling over the man's face.

The same facility did not pay the vevdor's bills. So, the grass was not trimmed. The food was of the lowest standards. The cleaning supplies were watered down. The maintenance supervisor was told to use his personal credit card to buy what supplies he needed and the company would reimburse him.

With cutbacks in funds and in sources protecting the seniors in facilities, they become victims rapantly. More seniors are now committing suicide than ever before in Florida because they are sick with fear of the thought of having to go into a facility.

I can only hope that will be done.

I have pulled another "all-nighter" since I read that article about him with the latest update of "what now for the destruction of a state, will the maniac, Scott dream up"? We face a critical point of total self-destruction in this country, due to the VOLUME of greed and hate.

Scott and his cronies from HCA/Columbia Hospitals should have gone to jail. Just like Madoff, these men plan the crimes and then follow through.

My "triggers" are abuse especially towards the children and the elderly. Two very vulnerable stages in our lives. I have no use for those people that feel such a superiority and have absolutely no regard for the survival of all human beings, at any cost.

For whatever the legal rights are for the citizens of Florida, the time is now to push for a recall.

The sad reality in Florida is that the retirees vote along the same party-lines as by what they were raised. In this situation under the Republicans, the retirees have been the major target for theft. Where it looks legal, they believed they could trust.

Now, as they have been "taken" by the real estate markets in the "Villages", "Sun City Center" and the Hoffman-WCI properties, they lose all of their investment in houses that are kept down by artificially lower values than even the rest of the state.

Driving into these areas, one can see the HCA-Hospital links (ie South Bay-a Hoffman investment), the offices for "financial advisors" with high school educations, the "fake" doctors who write scripts for pain meds and the infamous nursing homes and ALF's owned by the Indians, the bankers from Bahrain & the mobsters connected with same.

The seniors in the state will leave this earth with nothing left for their children if that was their intent. Whether they be guided by that overwhelming trust factor of looooooong ago...or led by those infamous liars that tell them to "trust" them!

The workers, who lived by the edge-of-their teeth, will now find it more difficult to buy food, pay housing costs, repair their vehicles, seek medical care and be stressed about taking care of their children. The elderly will continue to seek solace in suicide, if they choose. The rich will eventually get a sense of either having to be cozy with the thieves or pack up and leave the mansions to the vultures waiting.

By abiding by the new "red-light" law as cars stop on-a-dime after the timers have been changed, each driver faces the possibility of being hit from behind by someone who could not afford to fix the brakes on that car/truck.

Florida has become the oasis for the mobsters in all areas: medical, banking, real estate, health care and senior care, as we see the Feds come after some of these criminals. But, not all go off to the "BIG" house, when they have enough money to be able to "walk".

Al Hoffman, the CEO of WCI Development took a trip to Portugal on the behalf of his personal friend, Bush, Jr. As WCI declared bankruptcy on the housing developments with the Chinese dry wall situations all over the state, Hoffman took his money and "retired". He became the ambassador to Portugal, thanks to Bush, Jr.

Al Hoffman at one time lived next door, to Jeb in Coral Gables, before Jeb headed to Tallahassee. Al Hoffman brought in the bucks to support both Bushes for Washington. Al Hoffman and Charles Brasington, of Naples now have a new corporation registered in the islands, just like Rick Scott and his group of investors.

Rick Scott and Tom Frist put their millions into the Chinese Health Care System...so, the money gets piled higher and higher and the demagoges continue to laugh with mirth as they fill up yet another barrel with stolen dreams of the victims.

Jeb Bush helped Tenet Health Care, while he was the governor by changing the laws in Florida as the FEDS and the SEC were charging Tenet with Medicare and Medicaid FRAUD. Now, Jeb is on the board of Tenet Health Care.

Floridians don't need to look for the gangs in the dark alleyways of Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Bradenton, Daytona Beach...for the largest gangs in Florida are the politicians working for Scott, Bush and Hoffman!

hmmmmmmmmmmm $78 million. The foolish ones like to believe that all wealthy people actually earned their wealth by hard work and good luck! All kings were not peasants first that just made more of an effort. A lot of heads were chopped-off just to be able to carry that crown. Same situation now, with a LOT of "peasants" being shot right in the backside as they get kicked out the doors.

I didn't think that a state could change it. Although, I do believe that not all states pay such a low rate as Florida does.

It seems that there are governors now that think they are running sovereign states and do not have anyone to answer to except their own "little" inner voices telling them "it is OKAY"!

As Rick Scott discourages patients getting assistance in the system, his company Solantic Urgent Health Care will welcome those patients. AGAIN, another money-deal for Rick Scott/aka/Richard L. Scott Investments.

Just like a "king", all that he sees is his new domain.

I get the sense that this seems to be pre-WWII in Germany, when the leaders went through the towns and ripped the people apart. When the victims stood back up after the atrocities that were commited against them, the rescuers finally said "sorry". The flood is rushing and these governors are jumping on the boats w/o even knowing where they are going...or who they are leaving behind in the waters.

The "few" that have started this sweep are indeed the very wealthy governors that have slipped in with the backing of their partners in destroying this country. Descent people don't try to destroy others....that they are supposed to be responsible for.

FlNutmegger....the misconception is that Florida still has the harvest that you think of as being here. No more. When, the screams started about the "illegals" taking away those precious jobs of picking in the hot dirty fields under a boiling sun with a rag around one's head. most of them left.

The packing houses that used to clear those growing fields of the tomatoes and beans are now filled with roaches and ants with a locked fence in the front parking lots. The packing houses closed up and moved to Mexico for the cheap labor costs.

With the drug war going on in Mexico, now so intently I have no idea what the packers are doing now? The growing fields once again have signs on the corners advertising "for sale". The citrus trees died off 24 years ago with a strong freeze.

As the crops were moved further south and then off to So. America, the healthy orange groves are difficult to come across anymore. With trees that are left, they face diseases that kill them off. The beef market is difficult to pin point when in sight one can only see a "cow here and there, now.

A lot of the beef sold in Winn Dixie is imported from Australia, Mexico and So. America. The Florida market for agriculture was killed when the builders like WCI, Maronda, Heritage, Mercedes, Sunrise, K. Hovnanian, Rankin.. and the list continues as it is a lot longer, came to buy the farms at cheap prices.

Water shortages, red ants, sand hills, mosquitoes and sink holes adding to the hurricanes, we lost the ability to build a market for the economy of the state. Hence, the cheap labor lingered to cut the lawns, clean the pools, wash-off the roofs and serve the food. Big houses only eat up the funds for electric bills in the summertime.

Without good paying jobs, the only market that can carry the state then becomes the burden of the retiree with hopefully some pension money left, along with the tourists. If, you do not provide good paying jobs for workers, those that have the coins left will pay the bills.

Those big houses will remain empty until they can be sold for pennies on the dollar which again kills the market. The seniors are relying on taking their equity BACK-OUT of those houses and then moving into the horror chambers of the elder-care system. (Which is now going to be a lot worse under another Republican....as Bush started the procedure of degrading the system with the aid of Hoffman).

What is the answer? Realizing the concerns and acting upon them before it continues to the end of the road and there is no side-road to escape by.

To Becks72 & Flnutmegger, please be careful and make your decisions now while you can as to what you want for your care as you need it. Get a "buddy" to help you with those needs, whether it be family or a friend. Don't trust those in the "business" for it is their "business" to take from you any way that they can.

I took care of my Mother for the past nine years. What I have seen in the horrendous lack of care for human beings in the elder-care system now commits me to even a stronger fight against elder abuse and negligence.

What I see with Rick Scott putting his dirty fingers into the system in Florida which has never met the needs of the residents as it certainly SHOULD HAVE, makes me panic....beyond comprehension!

On one hand, having employment with one employer is unusual and lucky. On the other side, having employement with one employer and NOT having any benefits is the worst possible scenario. Employer loyalty and respect should certainly be given as much as it is expected from the employee to the employer.

Does NOT work anymore....long time ago, companies CARED. Bosses knew the employee's name and his family's names. They exchanged gifts for the holidays. There was a party for Christmas and the boss handed out bonus checks.

There is no loyalty from an employer as they always see an open door allowing them to exit from responsibility! They have no personal investment in employees and see them only as a profit or as a deficit.

Now, employees worry if they will be able to carry on with a position till retirement? Having a position with one company seems to be at 3-yr. intervals. If, companies need more profits, employees are fired "without cause"! Not right...not fair...and NO one cares. Not the state, not the Feds, not the stockholders or the CEO's.

Money is the motivator and for some companies that is all that they care about. I watched as workers were fired, when the profits were not as high as they should be one year. We were told to watch-out if certain employees came back to "visit"! These people worked hard. They lost their jobs, not because of poor work ethics, but because of profits.

The "old" man that owned the company was in the top ten-list for millionaires in the state. He had fallen backwards as he started doing some drugs, when he got depressed because of personal reasons. One of the supervisors became his favorite and evidently was his supplier. (I was so naive at the time, that I thought the old boy trusted the supervisor. I thought that is why the supervisor got to do so many special favors for the boss).

My boss, a VP told me that the managers and the owner figured out that they had made a huge mistake when they let those workers go at that time. Because the profit sharing plan was hit at the wrong time and they lost money.

So, here these people have no employment. They have to fight for unemployment wages and it was not their fault that they lost those jobs. I never trust anyone now in the business field. I trust myself and hope that my efforts will be considered worthwhile.

But, that is not always the truth....very few companies care about the employees. With laws that allow businesses to cut out employees without GOOD cause breaks down this society. We are not strong in this country because we are not all equal. We are not strong in this country, because in being in the market we see the haves and the have-nots clearly with two different perspectives.

Those that can control the way the market goes and hence the survival of this country either make the effort to make the economy work, or they take home "theirs" and put it in the safe. Not all business owners actually worked to get to their positions in the business world...."daddy" helped them out...left them money...or in many cases their dangerously crooked mind scammed some sucker and the money was easily taken.

For your Mother, maybe she can look at one of the side businesses of selling products. If, she has the contacts she can build the business with helpers and afford herself a way to make money for the future.

A friend of mine, just a few years away from retirement has always had some kind of a side-bs going for over 30 yrs. Home parties, school fairs, church bazaars...etc. She has a very good job with very good benefits and salary. Her years with the company have earned her a wonderful package.

Yet, the fear lingers that the pink slip could arrive before the "gold watch". No one would care..that is just the "way it is". But, she needs to have that security, so she works those weekends and puts in hours at night as needed.

Life is not fair...and there are no guarantees. At least your Mother has a son that cares about her...there are a lot of Mothers and Fathers that do NOT! In that way, your Mother is very blessed!~