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An editorial in the Palm Beach post today, reports that the foster parents of a little girl the FL Dept of Children and Families returned to a home where she was brutally beaten, are not receiving any of the $26.8 million they are entitled to for her lifetime of care. "...(FL) legislators blame this year's budget cuts for the lack of attention" to Marissa's relief bill. But the FL House did find time to consider new tax breaks for racetracks and Jai Alai frontons, said an editorial in the Stuart News, 4-3-08. Already, the Professional Golf Hall of Fame gets a $2 million subsidy from FL taxpayers? Is that annually? "The International Game Fish Assoc. World Center in Dania Beach enjoys a $1.2 million sales tax exemption", the same editorial continues. "...Tropicana Field/Tampa Bay Rays ($2 milllion annually), Raymond James Stadium/Tampa Bay Buccaneers ($2million), and Home Depot Stadium/Florida Panthers ($2 million)". You pay as they play? Doesn't FL have Republican majorities in the House and Senate? Besides what would be Welfare by any other name, stadium skyboxes and racehorse feed are exempt from FL sales taxes? But the Republicans who want children to pledge we are a "nation under God", have no time or money to do what is right for "the least of our brethren"?

Labels: The Florida Legislature's priorities

A horse is magnificent, big, strong, fast. Yet if a tiny piece of paper flies up in front
of it, it rears and runs in total panic and fear. That's US with Cuba. China's
Communist dictators, though, can ride us to the bank.

Labels: US and Cuba