Florida Gov. Rick Scott: 'I could argue that I don't have to create any jobs'

[seafan]

Source: St. Petersburg Times

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott faced more questions Thursday morning about his shifting position on a campaign promise to create 700,000 jobs on top of projected growth (which, at the time, was 1 million jobs).

This time the questions came on conservative talk radio where hosts usually refrain from pushing Scott for answers.

Bud Hedinger on 540-AM in Maitland referred to Times/Herald video and asked Scott about his promise and his position now, which is to question the validity of the state's economic forecasting. "It doesn't seem to square, sir," Hedinger said.

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"I could argue that I don't have to create any jobs," Scott told Hedinger. "I just have to make sure we don't lose jobs."

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Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/florida-gov-rick-scott-i-could-argue-that-i-dont-have-to-create-any-jobs/1196610

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Not much left to say...


How much longer, Florida, will this reign of rich right wing idiots lay waste to our government?

[trumad]

1. Yeah---he's screwed with this one.

[RockaFowler]

2. He's such a dope

He has lost jobs. Look at the South Florida Water Management - thousands of jobs. He's an idiot to the highest degree.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Truthfully, what person starts slashing jobs without knowing for sure

there were other jobs ready to take their place? This is just more Republican voodoo economics.

[Zoeisright]

3. Well, since repukes don't create jobs, but destroy them, he's half right.

Especially considering he's a half wit.

[Lint Head]

4. Florida use to be a great vacation spot. It has been spoiled by oil companies and right wingers.

[Octafish]

5. And people voted for this guy?

W.T.F.

[seafan]

10. Scott was trailing Sink by 5 points one week prior to the election. But *he wasn't worried*.

WTF indeed.

October 25, 2010

NAPLES — Driven by the overwhelming support of independents and moderates, Democrat Alex Sink has opened a nearly 5-point lead over her Republican opponent, Rick Scott, in the race to be Florida’s next governor, a new Naples Daily News/Zogby poll shows.

..... Naples News

The dreadful legacy of 2000 marches on.

[Octafish]

23. How about that? I thought only a few would vote for the guy.

Tallahassee. We, er, you, er, We the People have a problem.

Thank you for the details, seafan. DUers should know, you've got one hell of a journal.

[ck4829]

6. And this, boys and girls, is what we call "Passing the buck onto someone else"

[Zambero]

8. Not only that, Scott sends Florida jobs elsewhere

Witness the high speed rail project for his state that he scuttled. Those other states that picked up your start-up funding can't thank you enough Rick! You've got yours, so why should you give a f*ck anyway?

[valerief]

9. Why is that scum breathing??? nt

[timtom]

25. I've read through all the responses on this thread

and agree with all of them.

But, I like yours the best.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. Why is Perry breathing? And not only breathing, running for POTUS.

He has wrecked Texas.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

37. You would not believe how high our property taxes and sales taxes are in Texas.

Because we have no state income tax.

Sales tax is 8.5% in Houston.

Property taxes are about 3% of appraised value and they keep going up and up. But of course nobody is buying.

[David Sky]

11. Does Florida NOT allow for a recall election?

I have heard NOTHING about getting rid of him. Florida can't be happy with him.

No recall possible?

[gejohnston]

15. afraid not

Florida does not have recall. If it did, he would be gone. His approval was 20 percent after the first month. Figure he won a slim plurality in a five way race. That was before the media here mentioned anything about Medicare fraud (it was first mentioned the day after the election.)

[David Sky]

16. Maybe the taxpayers can sue the media for not reporting on the fraud before

the election!

How about impeachment? Can he be impeached for being a previously convicted felon? I thought Florida didn't even allow former convicts to VOTE!!!

[gejohnston]

17. impeachment might work

if we had enough Dems or half way sane Rep. The rest? I'll look into it.

[newspeak]

30. yeah, it's amazing that the media waits until after the election

to mention medicare fraud. Just like they waited after the election of poppy to mention the S&L debacle and his son's connection.

[LiberalFighter]

12. It would be true that he doesn't need to create jobs if

people would move out of the state and take their income and the taxes they pay with them. But how does that help the state and the residents that stay?

[Ganja Ninja]

13. "And look at what's happened nationally. Unbelievable slow job growth."

But Rick you're from the tea party. You don't need the federal government. You can create jobs all on your own. The fed's would only get in the way. Remember? You said piss on the bullet train. You waived off money for health care. Your budget cutting was gonna work miracles. Why are you making excuses? Why is it that every time the smaller government theory fails and blows up in your face you and every teabagger out there starts making excuses and insists we need more cuts and tax breaks?

[newspeak]

31. isn't he the one who has requested drug testing for those who receive aid?

and isn't his company benefiting from the drug testing?

[jmowreader]

33. That's the guy...

And the program has just worked SO WELL...

http://www.newser.com/story/127011/only-2-failed-florida-welfare-drug-tests.html

[SoapBox]

14. Almost laughable...

NOW, these GOPBaggers are SO brazen, that they will say stuff like this.

OR (at Think Progress) this:

"Kentucky GOP Official: ‘I Feel Like Going Taliban’ On Wall Street Protesters"

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/13/342979/kentucky-gop-official-i-feel-like-going-taliban-on-wall-street-protesters/

[Hosnon]

18. I suppose you don't have to do much of anything - unless you want to get re-elected. nt.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Does anybody expect a corporate crook to tell the truth?

Really?

Governor Scott no doubt thinks highly of the Frat Boy, so he does what the Frat Boy did. When he misses the kick (as he almost always daes and as the Frat Boy always did), he moves the goal posts.

[lark]

20. God, how I hate the MF*er

Even the conservative media in FL now hate the man and go after him on a daily basis. This really pisses me off too, because if they had actually done their reporting job, he'd never be our governor. No, they collected their huge tax cuts for corporations from him, then turned on him because basically the man's just batshit crazy and a complete liar and fraud.

I still think the hacked voting machines is the reason we have this travesty. You hardly meet anyone who will admist to voting for this dangerous idiot.

:mad: :puke:

[progressoid]

21. Is there a gif for a guy kicking himself in the ass?

:insert here:

[randome]

22. He's entirely correct.

If we lived in a fairytale Utopia with full employment and happy unicorns and bunny rabbits romping in everyone's back yard.

But in the real world? What an ass.

[AndyTiedye]

24. He Can Say or Do Whatever He Likes. It's Florida

The elections are so rigged there that the Repiglickins can't lose, no matter what they do or say.

[In Other News]

26. Beam Scotty Up, Scotty...

There's no intelligence in that life.

[sarcasmo]

27. Typical Republican douche bag.

[Kennah]

28. If asked about this later, he'll plead the fifth

[Overseas]

29. He didn't have to create jobs but he wanted to-- through privatizing government services.

Like all good Republicans who want to create a few very special jobs for their cronies by getting us to give our tax dollars to their friends' companies while they can still get some mileage out of the massive lie they have promoted so widely for decades now-- that the private sector can do better-- when clearly it does not. (Scott decided we needed to go after that 3% of welfare recipients who could be on drugs by testing all recipients because his pals had a drug testing company, didn't he? He sure wanted to create those drug testing jobs for his pals. And the Arizona governor Brewer who created a need for more prison workers with the "Papers Please" law that just coincidentally happened to benefit her pals in the private prison business. But they are just following their patron saint Dick Cheeeneeey who just happened to be Secretary of Defense promoting privatization of military services before he got his job as head of Halliburton to reap those rewards and then came back as VP to intensify the privatization of our military. He was so powerful that providing insufficient armor to our soldiers, serving moldy food to our troops and electrocuting them in their showers wasn't enough to stop the trend he promoted with such dedication with his best bud Don Rumsfeld.)

Well, the private sector does better at giving our tax dollars to Republican friends who slash expenses by reducing the quality of government services to build up the Republicans' next favorite lie-- Government is Baaaad.

[christx30]

32. I don't what's wrong

with taking taxpayer money, ending projects that can help people, and using that money to pad the bank accounts of a small set of people that are either rich or politically connected. Isn't that what you're supposed to do with it? I mean.. the only thing that the feds do that Gov Scott can't do is to use that money to invade and occupy a country for 10 years to enrich defense contractor.

[Overseas]

34. sigh... /nt

[hughee99]

35. If the conservative talk show guys are starting to ask these questsion

and are getting these answers, it may not be much longer.