Please Lets Do What's Right Florida

I have to come on again to the site and let all Floridian's feel my confusion about my State's budget and our school system. I voted for the state to have a lottery because it was sold to me on a golden plate. The lottery I was talked into voting for told me that the money made from the lottery would be used for our schools. Now if that was the case I was more than happy to give money to educate all Floridian's no matter what the age.

The time came to vote and darn if I wasn't assured that the money was going to the school system and I know the rest of the State believed this too. I was under the impression that our tax dollars that we pay for education would continue to go to education and then the lottery money would be above and beyond the money collected by our state taxes for our children and adults.

Could you just imagine the great things our state would come up with due to the highest paid teachers on the planet and the finest institutions in the 50 states. When the lottery passed all of us found out how the money would really be spent.

The State took our tax dollars away from the school system all together. That was the first back stabbing thing the State did to our children not to mention our seniors and ex military men and women but then they only gave a small percentage of that lottery money to the school system. Now how and why did the state of Florida not speak up. Who are we voting for these days. How did this happen. Why do we still have a lottery. I am so full of rage I can't stand myself and I find that cuss words come out of my mouth every other word and I am angry. I am so angry at what our State and Country is putting up with these days.

When I was young the We the People Stood up for what we believed in and protested by sitting in the way of that ticking time bomb. Cripples not getting an even break on the transportation system handcuffed themselves to busses and laid down in front of busses so they couldn't move. They blocked doors that were not accessible for wheelchairs and that was just the disabled. The whole country stood up for our rights to not go and kill people we didn't even dislike in Vietnam. Finally our country couldn't take it any more and an end of the war came to many years late but it came. Ask Presidential Incumbent McCain who was a POW in that war and now speaks of having to win this war. Screw this war… We don't need to win it we don't even need to help them but we needed to vent our anger for 9/11 and the Bush family has wanted to level the Middle East ever since Big George put Sadam in office. Hell he trained Osama Bin Laudin and sold them weapons of mass destruction and that's how we knew they had them in the first place.

This entire country is a time bomb waiting to go off. A person works an 8 hour shift five days a week and can't pay his / her mortgage or feed his /her children. This is sickening. We can no longer grow our own food or find our own water and we depend on our government to make sure the food and water we drink is safe but what does our government think is more important? Killing the buggers that took down the twin towers.

Our country is so big and so complex because we made it so with government but now the Republicans want to privatize everything. What in the heck is this, every government cut we see equates to jobs that are being lost and services that are going out the window. Now how are the 3 government employees going to make sure all fifty states have safe drinking water. How are the 7 employees going to make sure the animals we eat are safe. No lets privatize it all and when people start dieing left and right from mad cow disease and other crazy things because the private person only thinks of the bottom dollar do you think they would throw away 100,000 lbs of meat because one cow might be sick. Hell no.

I believe in big un-intrusive government because if we have big government we have people taking care of things needing taking care of and not someone that can be paid off or do it cheaper and shoddier than the next. Please Florida think before you do the unthinkable. Make land owners pay their taxes and don't put if off on me and others like me that live in apartments because we can't afford to live like the rest of you American Dreamers. I don't have a nice car and I don't eat good nor do I have health insurance or renters insurance it takes every cent I make to skate by 3 out of four weeks a month.

Again my dear Florida please stand up for rightness and I will stand up with you…

God Bless Us All