Trouble in Paradise. Rick Scott--having trouble cutting through red tape to create jobs.

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Rick Scott's jobs agenda runs into political realities in Legislature

TALLAHASSEE -- From the start of his administration, Gov. Rick Scott has been clear about how he planned to keep his campaign pledge to create 700,000 jobs in seven years: a direct line of accountability to the governor's office.

To that end, Scott directed state lawmakers to blow up Florida's diffuse constellation of jobs agencies and create a new Department of Commerce, whose director would work two doors down the hall from the governor spearheading Florida's business recruitment efforts.

"When you don't have one person looking over everything, it makes it more difficult to get things done," Scott said in January at his first meeting with the state's economic-development arm, Enterprise Florida. "I'll have a hard time holding somebody accountable for this if I don't have a person responsible for it."

But the product Republican lawmakers delivered last week was a mixed-bag – a reflection of how Scott's private-sector vision of government doesn't always square with the real thing.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-scott-jobs-legislature-20110513,0,4002456.story

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1. I love that this thought never even crossed his mind:

"If someone is heading an agency, and that agency has regulatory authority as well as the authority to pick and choose business entities to be given tax breaks, I can't see how that agency head could be compensated by the people he regulates and gives business incentives to."

What a clusterfuck.

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2. They don't think, do they?

Their mentality (and I should know because it came from a crooked politician) is that they have a right to make a living. That means they feel like the government they are in charge of running, shouldn't interfere with their business investments.

If Scott has figured out the quote you just posted, it means he must have a conscious, somewhere buried in that snakelike head of his.

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4. Too bad it wasn't his quote. :/

It was, however, this guy's:

Senate Transportation and Economic Development budget chief Don Gaetz, a Niceville Republican who carried the reorganization effort.

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6. I just read over the article and picked that up.

Oh, well.

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7. But someone he hired did!

That's at least a step...

baby steps

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3. God I hate this slimy, heartless excuse for a man.

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5. A note worthy quote:

""Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research," to spin-off state university research."

I wonder if this had something to do with Koch trying to take over the Economics Department in the University level?

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8. One person to control things..sounds a lot like Michigan's Emergency Management Official

Then they get to.... DICTATE....