State employees haven't received a raise in more than four years, but most agency heads that Gov. Rick Scott has appointed are making $20,000 a year more than their predecessors.You know, on a scale from 1 to 10, taking money from the coffers that educate Florida's children and giving your pals pay raises might just be a -50 in my book.
Scott has named 10 new department heads with salaries of $140,000 compared to $120,000 or less for their predecessors, according to a web site database launched by the governor.
Scott this past week named three agency secretaries, with both Ken Lawson at the Department of Business and Professional Regulation and Dr. Frank Farmer, secretary of the Department of Health, earning will $140,000 compared to $120,000 for their predecessors. Liz Dudek was elevated to secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration at $140,000 a year compared to $164,380 for her predecessor, Tom Arnold.
Asked this week why he was paying most of his secretaries significantly more when state employees haven't been given a raise, Scott did not directly answer the question. Instead he said that state employees are "very hard working people."
They like to talk about fiscal responsibility but when things like this happen, the Tea Party folks and those who voted for guys like Rick Scott say not a word. They are nowhere to be found.
And that's because the Tea Party never was about fiscal responsibility. It never was about responsible and representative government.
The Tea Party has been and will always be about one thing.
-via The Reid Report
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7 comments:
Now that's what I'm talkin about Rick! Good to see you lean in an activist direction. But I warn you, it is impossible to keep up with it all, and the tsunami of corruption and hypocrisy often becomes depressing. But, somebodys gotta do it...
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When Rick Scott was elected by the morons in this State -- that outnumber the normal people -- I said it was the worst thing to come out of the mid-term election. He is a disaster that gets worse every day. Now he is trying to privatize prisons. Even the more moderate Republicans are in distress. We are in deep shit.
I think that lady's sign is missing the word "Lion" after the first "African," or she should have moved the lion picture to the other side of the poster. Because the way she wrote the sign, it sounds like the Zoo is keeping an African person in a cage.
SOMEONE NEEDS TO CORRECT HER GRAMMATICAL FAUX PAS!
I think that lady's sign is missing the word "Lion" after the first "African," or she should have moved the lion picture to the other side of the poster. Because the way she wrote the sign, it sounds like the Zoo is keeping an African person in a cage.
SOMEONE NEEDS TO CORRECT HER GRAMMATICAL FAUX PAS!
SB,
Did you really expect someone holding a sign like that to have good grammar skills?
1) Sorry for the accidental double-post. I swear that was Blogger's fault.
2) Anon - no. No I did not. BUT - I needed to talk about how her sign made me feel. :)
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