Why 'Small Government' In One State Actually Cost Taxpayers $178 Million

[Playinghardball]

Does this make any sense?

[baldguy]

1. How is it "small govt" to force people to be be tested for drugs w/o cause, suspicion or a warrent?

[libinnyandia]

2. I guess Scott and friends thought that there would be millions and miilions of drug users kicked

off welfare, making welfare costs smaller. Small in terms of number on welfare, not small when considering intrusion on citizens' rights. To Scott money is more important. Of course there weren't millions and millions on drugs.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Actually, one of Scott's cronies probably runs the testing services

that's the biggest reason...

[AleksS]

4. Wasn't it actually his wife's business?

I seem to remember reading that the drug testing business was even closer than just a "crony"--that it was actually a business right in Scott's own family?

Ah yes:

"The company [Scott] founded, Solantic, does a big drug testing business. Although Scott divested himself of interest in the company in January, the controlling share went to a trust in his wife’s name."

http://www.alan.com/2011/06/01/does-rick-scott-cash-in-on-mandatory-drug-testing/

Nothing shady there. Move along people.

How the flying F*** does giving control of a company to your WIFE count as divesting your interest in a company? Why isn't he in jail? Or at least facing some ethics charges?

[ellenfl]

5. scott owns the drug testing company. don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain. eom

[Citizen Worker]

6. This is the process by which public programs are cut or eliminated. The next step will be to cut

the social safety net in FL by $178 million. And this is what is happening with Social Security through the payroll tax cuts. The program is being slowly bled through tax cuts. In a few years we'll hear that it is necessary to severely cut Social Security in order to save it. Of course, we won't be told the reason for the severe cuts was the payroll tax cuts of the present.