Gov Cuts Funding for Disabled Floridians

[GoodWitch58]

Scott slashes budget for Floridians with disabilities | The Florida Independent

Rather than waiting on legislative approval for his most recent budget cut push, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has issued an executive order slashing the state budget for social workers and group homes for the disabled. #

The cuts would affect between 30,000 and 35,000 Floridians with severe developmental disabilities. They go into effect Friday and will remain in place at least through June 30, the end of Florida?s fiscal year. #

The news comes at the same time as a report that the Agency for Persons with Disabilities has received approval for a federal Medicaid waiver program that is designed to help stabilize the budget. Nevertheless, the agency is now expected to operate with 15 percent less funding. #

Bob Wright, a board member and former CEO of Winter Park?s Threshold Center for Autism, told the Sentinel that the most practical way to make do with less funding ? cutting staff accordingly ? would be an impossibility because it would put the Treshold Center in violation of state laws on staff-to-patient ratios. ?This may break our backs,? he said. #

Wright went on: #


If this were any other workplace, you would consider it a war zone. ? My staff gets bitten, hit, kicked, spat upon, defecated on, urinated on ? for $8.23 an hour. And every time we start talking about giving our guys a pay raise, the governor comes along and cuts the rates. #

In an ironic display of temerity, governor?s office staff happily tweeted about an appearance Scott made at a fundraiser for the Special Olympics on the same day he authorized the order. #

this speaks for itself...this man has no shame!

 

[Bob Wells]

Scott slashes budget for Floridians with disabilities | The Florida Independent

Rather than waiting on legislative approval for his most recent budget cut push, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has issued an executive order slashing the state budget for social workers and group homes for the disabled. #

The cuts would affect between 30,000 and 35,000 Floridians with severe developmental disabilities. They go into effect Friday and will remain in place at least through June 30, the end of Florida?s fiscal year. #

Well they have some unused prison space, and seeing how it will be privately run, it will create jobs and fill 2 needs the state has. Yeah I said it.

 

[30ashopper]

They were operating over budget for the fiscal year. Scott didn't "slash" anything. Kudos to Scott for keeping them within budgetary spending requirements.

http://www.tallahassee.com/article/...on-organizations-for-people-with-disabilities

 

[scooterbug44]

I'm probably next on his list - he seems hell bent to hurt everyone but criminals and corporations.

 

[30ashopper]

I'm probably next on his list - he seems hell bent to hurt everyone but criminals and corporations.

He seems hell bent on doing what we hired him to do, drag us all kicking and screaming toward fiscal responsibility. No politician on the planet could make the calls he's making, they'd be too worried about the size of the protest crowd on the corner. The lack of people like Scott in government is the reason why this country is so screwed up fiscally. We should consider ourselves lucky. We made the right choice. The state may not like the taste of the medicine going down, but in four years we're going to look back and pat ourselves on the back.

 

[LuciferSam]

He seems hell bent on doing what we hired him to do, drag us all kicking and screaming toward fiscal responsibility. No politician on the planet could make the calls he's making, they'd be too worried about the size of the protest crowd on the corner. The lack of people like Scott in government is the reason why this country is so screwed up fiscally. We should consider ourselves lucky. We made the right choice. The state may not like the taste of the medicine going down, but in four years we're going to look back and pat ourselves on the back.

How many shots did you down as you typed that?

 

[30ashopper]

How many shots did you down as you typed that?

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. Scott is not your ordinary politician - thank god for that. We did something no other state has done, we put a guy in charge who's capable of making the right decisions, despite how painful the results may be. He's doing something unheard of, he's bringing the free ride to an end. This country desperately needs more people like Scott in government.

 

[Bob Wells]

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. Scott is not your ordinary politician - thank god for that. We did something no other state has done, we put a guy in charge who's capable of making the right decisions, despite how painful the results may be. He's doing something unheard of, he's bringing the free ride to an end. This country desperately needs more people like Scott in government.

What free ride, collective bargaining, telling me I can't have dues deducted from my check, attacking pensions by taxing the employee to work for the government, reducing the cost of education, reducing services to the physically and mentally challenged, protecting teachers from politics by taking tenure away, privatizing prisons so companies can make a profit, penalizing those who can't find a job by reducing their benefits, are those the free rides you are referring to? This is guy who could afford to fund his own campaign to get elected. The free ride coming is to the big business interest who will pay less in state taxes, damage the enviroment and be able to hire cheaply an ill equiped and educated workforce. This is the the guy who thinks splitting the Supreme Court in 2 is good for Florida, that regulation is not necessary unless it benefits his cause or is an attack on his percieved enemies. FREE RIDE MY A@@, REALLY. STOMP LOUDLY OUT OF ROOM IN A HUFF

 

[Bob]

He seems hell bent on doing what we hired him to do, drag us all kicking and screaming toward fiscal responsibility. No politician on the planet could make the calls he's making, they'd be too worried about the size of the protest crowd on the corner. The lack of people like Scott in government is the reason why this country is so screwed up fiscally. We should consider ourselves lucky. We made the right choice. The state may not like the taste of the medicine going down, but in four years we're going to look back and pat ourselves on the back.

tell the disabled to get back to work

 

[Bob]

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. Scott is not your ordinary politician - thank god for that. We did something no other state has done, we put a guy in charge who's capable of making the right decisions, despite how painful the results may be. He's doing something unheard of, he's bringing the free ride to an end. This country desperately needs more people like Scott in government.

admit this guy is a fraudulent thief of government money through medicare or you have no credibility