Florida House Speaker Johnnie Byrd is determined to run government "like a business."
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".........to run government like a business........."
Business makes a profit.
The current Administration has the deepest debts in the history of the USA.
The word is "bankrupt".
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And, in the wake of Enron, Halliburton, Tyco, et al, that should
probably sound some alarm bells.
In true conservative style, Byrd has spent the last two years fighting
to cut services for Florida's poor - and has now rewarded 500 state
employees by giving them each a $1000 bonus.
Yes, that's half a million dollars of taxpayer money.
Said Doug Gallagher - one of Byrd's Republican Senate opponents - "If
he's got a private sector company and he wants to do something like
that, that's fine. But I think it really sends the wrong message to
use tax dollars in that fashion."
But I think Byrd has this all wrong.
If he really wants to run Florida's government like a Bush-style
business he should have laid off a bunch of people, outsourced their
work to India, given the half-million dollars to himself, cooked the
books, gone bankrupt, and then been arrested for fraud.
Looks like Johnnie Byrd has got a lot of learning left to do.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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