Well, somehow Rick Scott got elected Governor here in Florida, and he blows hard. A man himself convicted of Medicare fraud decided to take some friendly pictures with the kids at a Special Olympics event and then proceed to gash the funding that goes to children and adults with special needs. My wife is a social worker and just fired this email, apparently, she has more fiscal knowledge than this no talent ass clown we have running our state. Before you all call me a liberal fag, know that I voted for not only Jeb Bush but also Crist who were both Republicans. Elections have consequences, and our punishment is a skeevy tea party douchbag who has no idea how to run a state.

Anywho, here is my wife's email to him that is probably already printed, crumpled and in the trash.

Dear Governor Scott

Please take a moment to think through your decisions to cut funding for persons with disabilities and mental illness. These services provide basic care, mental health treatment, work training, and other basic benefits that EVERY human being should have access to. Additionally, these programs are often the only portals that these vulnerable individuals have to the outside world. Your contention is that we have to get our budget under control and I agree with you, but is this the way to go? Think about it this way. I work at an Adult Day Training program that costs 28 dollars a day to the Medwaiver program. The average cost to keep a person in prison in this country is 78 dollars. That’s not including the tax payer cost that comes along with having to pay attorney and court fees for these individuals to pass through the system. That’s also disregarding that fact that dumping a mentally ill or disabled person into prison can then further exacerbate their problems through the process of imprisonment, which then increases their risk of recidivism.

You see, Governor, once you take meaningful day activities away from this population (often times a primary source of self respect and pride) they then are left to fill their days with not so meaningful activities. This often translates into the person staying home watching television, growing more and more disenchanted and angry. At that point they are more likely to start roaming the street where, due to their vulnerability, they can be abused or recruited by gangs or other criminals. These individuals are very likely to end up on drugs, involved in prostitution, homeless, institutionalized or in prison. All because they don’t have something to do that enables them to be a functioning and healthy part of our society. It seems too simple to be true and yet it is just common sense. From a business sense Governor Scott, you may be shaving money from the budget in the short term but it will cost the tax payers havoc in the long run, financially as well as emotionally. I believe that you would find that it is more cost effective in the long term to keep these proactive and supportive services running at full capacity instead of stripping them to the bare minimum now.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/06/2154496/disabled-advocates-protest-rick.html

^ ^ Me neither down here in South Florida, I think the votes must have come from the folks in the small towns in between.

Holy Crap. My wife...won?

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/14/2167926/gov-rick-scott-to-rescind-order.html