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Mar 10·edited Mar 10

Straight ticket democrat. That's all. The Florida GOP treats its own constituents like so much trash - especially laborers. And now that they won't be able to afford rent, it will be likely that many more will become homeless. And this is the party that claims the high road.

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Florida seems to be in the control of completely evil legislators who not only have no ethics, but delight in brutalizing as many people as possible. How is it possible that Floridians accept this? How have we reached this point?

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I don't think we can wait for the Dems to take back Florida. Besides, before Nikki Fried took the Chair it was a billionaire who had it - then he ran Florida into the ground.

OMG - the retired people who live off their "socialism" don't care.

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Mar 11·edited Mar 11

Having lived here for 6 agonizing years, I've come to know this. Florida voters are truly as dumb as a box of rocks. When they go to the polls and pencil in an "R" just because they promised to "own the libs', the ulterior motive of these "R's" was to screw as many voters as they can. The place is set up to only help the mega donors, industries that Florida's Mafia likes and the wealthy 1%. The rest will eat crow each and every day. I'm waiting for the first 16 yr old to get hurt on the job site, how quickly the home builder will disappear from view. They screwed many unions but favored the ones that support them. How is that fair, Florida voter? 25 years of Republican rule and with the thumb firmly on the scale, the existence of the middle class and lower class is on borrowed time. The government tax model is built on volume, they spend very little fixing road and capacity issues. Police presence is limited at best and the roads are dangerous because of it. It takes years to get anything going and by then it's a horrible mess. They gloat about "raising" per pupil spending in this state yet it's still in the lower quarter of the national average. It's not enough and funny thing is they just LOWERED the standards for Charter School teachers. Sure, this will produce the new Rhodes Scholars with that mentality. Imagine that, lowering teaching standards... DeFraud is a Douche!

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🤮 no words

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The average per pupil spending in NY is about $21-23K, give or take. The national level at last check is high teens (17-19K). Florida, mind you as the third most populous state in the Union only spends (and now budgeted a whopping $235 per student in this budget session) a grand total of $8,900 per pupil. Does anybody see anything wrong with this???? The state budget just proposed is only $117.5 billion?????

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Can you cite anything as I'm not familiar with their narrative if any. My college days were '82-'86.

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