Florida: Legislature of the Absurd
- added April 24, 2008
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- jpfdeuce
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"Look at the legislature's priorities: pushing "I Believe" license plates sporting a cross and a stained glass window. Voting to sneak the teaching of "intelligent design" into high school science classes. Forcing pregnant women who want or need an abortion to undergo an ultrasound — and making them pay for it, too. Filing bills against the scourge of boys in baggy britches. Making sure you can you can tote your Smith and Wesson to the day care center, the mall, or that downsizing construction company — the one you're kind of mad at. And debating whether the faux bovine cojones known as "Truck Nutz" should be banned from the backsides of Florida vehicles."
There's more discussed by the author but the failure fo the Florida Legislature is that it doesn't seem to have any idea what the citizens need any more... Though they do know how to address wedge issues and the mundane in order to distract the citizenry from the real problems facing the state.
This is what a failure of government looks like.
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"Voting to sneak the teaching of "intelligent design" into high school science classes."
And this one is certain to cost the taxpayers millions defending the lawsuits.
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That was a good way to lead people on.
By state and Federal law you CANNOT tote a gun around any school, day care, library, government building, or any other facility like that. You also must possess a Concealed Weapons Permit to carry it on your person anywhere else. You can't have a gun at a post office or bank, but that hasn't stopped people from doing so with their illegally obtained firearms.
Also about the baggy pants bill. Our fantastic governer Charlie Christ immediately shot down that bill. He has his priorities straight.
The realistic "Truck Nnutz" are banned. Most likely for the same reason you can't hang a vagina from your Prius.
Our only issue with the state is how the majority makes their living. And it is through the trourism industry, which is seasonally fickle at best. Florida IS NOT a self-sustainable appendige of the U.S. We get most of our food from other countries when we have everything we need within an hours shipping commute. Want to talk about cutting costs....
