Florida GOP legislature spurns $50 million for child-abuse prevention

[seafan]

These people are callous monsters.


Florida spurns $50 million for child-abuse prevention

By Carol Marbin Miller
July 20, 2011

Florida lawmakers have rejected more than $50 million in federal child-abuse prevention money. The grants were tied to the Obama administration’s healthcare reform package, which many lawmakers oppose on philosophical grounds.

The money, offered through the federal Affordable Health Care Act passed last year, would have paid, among other things, for a visiting nurse program run by Healthy Families Florida, one of the most successful child-abuse prevention efforts in the nation. Healthy Families’ budget was cut in last year’s spending plan by close to $10 million.

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State Sen. Joe Negron, who chairs his chamber’s Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, said he long has been philosophically opposed to Healthy Families, which he views as an intrusion into the private lives of parents.

“I believe in providing basic information to parents at hospitals and medical settings,” said Negron, a Palm City Republican. “I am not persuaded that it is a good idea to show up at a family’s home year after year giving advice and guidance. I do not think that is a core, essential function of government.”

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This is absolutely crazy.

[RKP5637]

1. The crazy has no bounds anymore. People in FL should be absolutely bullshit

about this.

[givemebackmycountry]

2. We are.

I am.

[RKP5637]

4. +1,000,000 +++ Great!!! n/t

[tsuki]

5. I hate to break this to you, but my part of FL is filled with gated

communities with retirees that could care less if there were dead babies clogging the road outside their enclave. They love tax cuts and fetuses, in that order.

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, the typical I've got mine F you attitude by them. And not unique to FL, we've

got similar here too.

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r