Responsible for the death of one child? You’re called “Murderer”. Responsible for forty? "Governor".

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/responsible-for-the-death-of-one-child-youre-called-murderer-responsible-for-forty-murdered-children-youre-called-governor/

"Governor Rick Scott of Florida, to be precise. Because of the funding cuts he ordered, dozens of innocent children were sent to live with child abusers, drug addicts, psychopaths and killers. Because of Rick Scott, these poor kids are dead.

Here is one example of his demands that children be put at risk. Scott claimed that cutting funds to the agency that is supposed to protect children was necessary to “create jobs”. He must have been thinking of jobs for undertakers, grave-diggers, and coffin makers.

And he wants more cuts. Yes, you read that correctly. Even though his hands are stained with the blood of innocent little kids, Rick Scott is OK with seeing even more of them die, so long as he and his cronies can pad their already-enormous bank accounts.

Gentle Reader, what does it say about a man, when he thinks it acceptable to add to his fortune by allowing children to suffer and die? This latter-day Ebeneezer Scrooge endorses the deaths of hundreds of Tiny Tims, but alas, there are no ghosts with sufficient power to awaken Governor Scott’s conscience. And so the children of Florida can’t count on a happy ending to their stories of anguish, privation, and abuse. Not this Christmas. Maybe never."

Source material at the link. What a motherfucker is Rick Scott.

[Squinch]

1. And it's crucial for his party to protect a clump of cells, but a real child, especially

if s/he is poor, is just a nuisance that can be tossed out with the trash.

[riqster]

2. Because they aren't sinners until they are born.

Or so goes their "logic".

[KansDem]

9. Yeah, aren't they suppose to be "born in sin?"

I never could figure out that little bit of Christian superstition...

[riqster]

12. It's a lot easier to blame a long-dead Neanderthal in a mythical garden for one's failings

...than it is to nut up and take responsibility for our own flaws and fuck-ups.

That is my theory on the whole original sin concept, anyway...

[atreides1]

3. Pro-Life Republicans

Believe in life from conception to birth...after that they just don't care!!!

[catbyte]

14. It's because spewing the "miracle of life" crap about that clump of cells doesn't cost them

a thing--not one red cent--plus it makes them feel morally superior to all of us floozy females. They then despise that "miracle of life" the second the kid shoots out of the birth canal because now it is an ankle biter who will somehow cost them money, so they don't deserve food, health care, or an education. It's their whore of a mother's fault and 100% her responsibility. They are hypocrites. They are despicable. And I'll bet they go to church every week, too.

[mountain grammy]

4. And anyone who votes for him.. blood on their hands too!

[riqster]

6. Exactly.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. From the article ...

Scott says, "The abuse and deaths are tragic ... but the agencies charged with preventing them must learn to do more with less because every family in Florida has had to tighten their belts."

Scott says, "Education is important for 'job-creation' ... but the agency charged with educating must learn to do more with less because every family in Florida has had to tighten their belts."

But every family in Florida hasn't had to tighten their belts ... only the working class folks ... who happen to be the same folks that are charged with preventing the abuse and death and educating.

[riqster]

7. And Walker has been loosening his belt, no doubt.

He and his accomplice cronies.

[Initech]

8. George Carlin was right: "when you're pre born you're fine, when you're pre school, you're fucked!

[jwirr]

10. It tells us that he is much like all the rest of his rethug buddies except worse. But it also tell

us about those who voted for him and his legislature that okayed these cuts. I am not a Catholic but the Pope is right. Unfettered capitalism is not a good thing. When I was young greed was considered a sin. Still is in my book.

[msongs]

11. responsible for hundreds or thousand? "president" nt

[lonestarnot]

13. Fucker!

[Sancho]

15. Rick Scott is pure evil!