Comments on: Cash pursuit for rail line thorny issue for Florida GOP http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/12/cash-pursuit-for-rail-line-thorny-issue-for-florida-gop/ News about politics and government in Florida Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Margaret Whitehead http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/12/cash-pursuit-for-rail-line-thorny-issue-for-florida-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-19989 Margaret Whitehead Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:39:04 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=12940#comment-19989 The Senate President Jeff Atwater and his fellow thugs like Mike Fasano have exercised the worst type of tyrany by hammering and threatening other legislators to vote for this very bad legislation because they are greedy, avaricious and corrupt to the core. This is worse than the mafia. At least the Corleone Family was honest in their criminal intent. Atwater, Fasano, Thrasher, Constantine, Haridopolos, Cannon, Alexander and the rest of the blatantly corrupt Republican Mobsters in the Florida Senate and House want to rape the vulnerable taxpayers of this state rather than put their considerable pressure on FDOT to renegotiate the terms of the rail purchase deal to be far less expensive. But this deal is not so much about the merits of passenger rail as it is about corporate welfare and land development. Go back to the drawing board until a more fiscally responsible deal can be hatched, in the Sunshine so all the taxpayers can see it. We don't need this bloated increase in government (Enterprises and Rail Authorities) to cover the fact that the political leadership of Florida is bailing out a Fortune 500 corporation with taxpayer money in order to feather their own corrupt nests. Who is getting what reward? Campaign contributions? Jobs for after-office? Developer cash-ola? Corporate Board Appointments? Lucrative CSX warehousing contracts and a toll road into the family agricultural property they want to develop? This culture of corruption and the hideous tyrany of those in power must be stopped! Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave!! Aren't Republican values supposed to be LESS Government and Fiscal Conservatism? The Senate President Jeff Atwater and his fellow thugs like Mike Fasano have exercised the worst type of tyrany by hammering and threatening other legislators to vote for this very bad legislation because they are greedy, avaricious and corrupt to the core.

This is worse than the mafia. At least the Corleone Family was honest in their criminal intent. Atwater, Fasano, Thrasher, Constantine, Haridopolos, Cannon, Alexander and the rest of the blatantly corrupt Republican Mobsters in the Florida Senate and House want to rape the vulnerable taxpayers of this state rather than put their considerable pressure on FDOT to renegotiate the terms of the rail purchase deal to be far less expensive.

But this deal is not so much about the merits of passenger rail as it is about corporate welfare and land development. Go back to the drawing board until a more fiscally responsible deal can be hatched, in the Sunshine so all the taxpayers can see it.

We don’t need this bloated increase in government (Enterprises and Rail Authorities) to cover the fact that the political leadership of Florida is bailing out a Fortune 500 corporation with taxpayer money in order to feather their own corrupt nests.

Who is getting what reward? Campaign contributions? Jobs for after-office? Developer cash-ola? Corporate Board Appointments? Lucrative CSX warehousing contracts and a toll road into the family agricultural property they want to develop?

This culture of corruption and the hideous tyrany of those in power must be stopped! Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave!! Aren’t Republican values supposed to be LESS Government and Fiscal Conservatism?

]]> By: smarter than Jerry http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/12/cash-pursuit-for-rail-line-thorny-issue-for-florida-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-19983 smarter than Jerry Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:34:29 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=12940#comment-19983 Jerry, Unlike you, Ron probably is smart enough to spell hypocrisy (not hypocrasy) correctly- but then you never were a rocket scientist when you served as a nobody in the Legislature. Hope you lose your current race for the House since you probably too senile to serve. Jerry,
Unlike you, Ron probably is smart enough to spell hypocrisy (not hypocrasy) correctly- but then you never were a rocket scientist when you served as a nobody in the Legislature. Hope you lose your current race for the House since you probably too senile to serve.

]]> By: jerrymelvin http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/12/cash-pursuit-for-rail-line-thorny-issue-for-florida-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-19981 jerrymelvin Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:35:43 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=12940#comment-19981 Hypocrasy is Ron Saunders pretending that he is a resident of the Keys - he lives in Tallahassee, his kids go to school in Tallahassee, and he claims his homestead there...that makes him a resident of Tallahassee, not our Florida Keys... Hypocrasy is Ron Saunders pretending that he is a resident of the Keys – he lives in Tallahassee, his kids go to school in Tallahassee, and he claims his homestead there…that makes him a resident of Tallahassee, not our Florida Keys…

]]> By: L.M. Harrington http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/12/cash-pursuit-for-rail-line-thorny-issue-for-florida-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-19969 L.M. Harrington Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:55:01 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=12940#comment-19969 As a former legislator, if I were in the Florida House today, I would be whole heartedly against this boondoggle. • Has anyone preformed an accounting of the hidden monies treasured away within FDOT? FDOT has funds to torment local communites with make work programs and grants (gov’t. welfare to local gov’t.). • Has anyone had a recent appraisal of the value of the CSX rail purchase? The appraisal is two to three years old. Values of land and businesses have fallen immensely and more so in recent years. • Why are we not capturing the depressed values of the land and business at this time to benefit Florida? • Have assessments been made of the support within communities for this rail system? • Have assessments been made to determine if local governments can afford these systems? Surely, if they can’t we, the State of Florida, will have to bail them out. • What about the insurance burdens upon the State and upon FDOT • Why is it that CSX burdens Floridians with the cost of lawsuit and liability? Dozens of questions go unanswered here. This is more than a small special session to threaten lawmakers to support another liberal boondoggle. I say tell your lawmaker “No” on this issue. As a former legislator, if I were in the Florida House today, I would be whole heartedly against this boondoggle.
• Has anyone preformed an accounting of the hidden monies treasured away within FDOT? FDOT has funds to torment local communites with make work programs and grants (gov’t. welfare to local gov’t.).
• Has anyone had a recent appraisal of the value of the CSX rail purchase? The appraisal is two to three years old. Values of land and businesses have fallen immensely and more so in recent years.
• Why are we not capturing the depressed values of the land and business at this time to benefit Florida?
• Have assessments been made of the support within communities for this rail system?
• Have assessments been made to determine if local governments can afford these systems? Surely, if they can’t we, the State of Florida, will have to bail them out.
• What about the insurance burdens upon the State and upon FDOT
• Why is it that CSX burdens Floridians with the cost of lawsuit and liability?
Dozens of questions go unanswered here. This is more than a small special session to threaten lawmakers to support another liberal boondoggle. I say tell your lawmaker “No” on this issue.

]]> By: Tony T. http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/12/cash-pursuit-for-rail-line-thorny-issue-for-florida-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-19968 Tony T. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:41:52 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=12940#comment-19968 Florda and all of the United States should have been moving to a high speed rail system 20 years ago. In all of Europe you can travel fast and efficiently both in indidivual countries and well as across Europe - but in the United States we sit our big fat solo butts in big gas guzzling vehicles and sit in traffic instead. Florda and all of the United States should have been moving to a high speed rail system 20 years ago. In all of Europe you can travel fast and efficiently both in indidivual countries and well as across Europe – but in the United States we sit our big fat solo butts in big gas guzzling vehicles and sit in traffic instead.

]]> By: savant http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/12/cash-pursuit-for-rail-line-thorny-issue-for-florida-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-19963 savant Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:13:56 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=12940#comment-19963 Government spending is out of control. Where will the taxpayers get the money to maintain such a boondoggle ? Ticket prices would only cover a small part of the operation. The politicians won't tell you that . Government spending is out of control. Where will the taxpayers get the money to maintain such a boondoggle ? Ticket prices would only cover a small part of the operation. The politicians won’t tell you that .

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