(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . So this man wants to make America Florida? Look at the facts and shudder to even imagine. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-24 I have collected just a few facts and think about this guy wanting to make America, Florida. This just screams for an ad. As of May 30, 2023 there have been 15 mass shootings in Florida. www.heraldtribune.com/... Gun violence on Mass shooting just in 2023….This does not include gun violence that is not a mass shooting. As of May 30, 2023 there have been 15 mass shootings in Florida. www.jacksonville.com/... Mass shootings in Florida increased to 34 in 2020 from 15 the year before, while nationally mass shootings jumped nearly 50% during a pandemic with crippling unemployment, violent protests and idle youth. In 2020 Florida reported 34 mass shootings that killed 26 and injured 133. A year earlier, the state had 15 mass shootings that killed 20 and injured 54. Now keep in mind between flooding, sink holes, sea rising, flesh eating bacteria, beach unhealthy situations….Desantis is running around selling books and wanting to give all of you what we are enduring. His priorities is picking on Mickey Mouse and cutting mental health and healthcare. thehill.com/... Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made controversial budget cuts on Wednesday, notably removing $900,000 in funding for state programs geared toward serving the LGBTQ+ population, including one that provides mental health programs to survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting from 2016. This comes on the second day of Pride Month and the upcoming fifth anniversary of the shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub, on June 12. DeSantis declared June 12 Pulse Remembrance Day in honor of the 49 people who lost their lives in the shooting. /tweet/ Local outlets report that the budget cuts were made prior to DeSantis’s approval of the $100 billion state budget. Among the specific programs that suffered from budget cuts were a $150,000 initiative directed to the Orlando United Assistance Center at LGBT+ Center Orlando. Within that $150,000, funds would have gone to mental health and counseling services for survivors of the Pulse shooting. Other programs include the Zebra Coalition, a youth housing project, which was slated to get $750,000 in funding. The coalition aims to convert a part of an unused hotel into housing for LGBTQ+ youth. Climate Change original.newsbreak.com/... 25” of rain saturated water tables in South Florida causing extreme flooding in Ft. Lauderdale – the worse ever. Last year category 4 hurricane Ian stalled over central Florida and dumped high amounts of rain, creating flooding that in some areas did not clear for weeks. Some residents are still living in tents. There is increasing evidence that the foundations of several high-rise condo buildings are compromised enough to require that they be abandoned, including this one this week. Climate change is causing melting ice that is causing the ocean’s sea level to rise. Rising ocean levels don’t simply mean the water below a dock goes up by an inch. The oceans are not flat, in fact they have bulge areas where sea level can be much higher. Florida’s coast is one of those areas, so sea level rise there starts to have serious effects on all kinds of flooding issues. DeSantis and the GOP run state government avoids acknowledging climate change even as its effects are killing its citizens and destroying dreams of a warm, sunny retirement, in one of the fastest growing populations in the country. Home insurers are abandoning the state, putting home ownership out of the reach of many as banks won’t issue mortgages without the protection of insurance. The insurers actuarial tables tell them the risk isn’t worth it. Budget Cuts Gov. Ron DeSantis' record-high budget came at the expense of over $30 million in vetoed projects in South Florida — in areas such as drainage, infrastructure and opioid treatment. In a $116.5 billion budget, up from $109.9 billion last year, the governor’s line-item vetoes totaled $511 million dollars. At last week's signing event, when faced by the press, DeSantis gave no details of the projects he eliminated, while declaring that the budget was "in fantastic shape." "The state's going in a great direction. You're not going to see us have the type of problems that these other states have with fiscal insolvency, driving people away,” he said. Once the vetoes — down from $3.13 billion last year — were announced, it emerged that environmental programs across the state were the governor's biggest target. www.wlrn.org/… DeSantis weaponizes the cultural wars to distract attention from the core missions of his governorship, which is to starve programs geared toward bettering the lives of ordinary citizens so he can maintain low taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Florida is the ideal haven for privileged Americans who don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes. It has no income tax for individuals, and its corporate tax rate of 5.5% is among the lowest in the nation. An investigation by the Orlando Sentinel in late 2019 revealed the startling fact that 99% of Florida’s companies paid no corporate income tax, abetted by tax-avoidance schemes and state officials who gave a low priority to enforcing tax laws. time.com/… Largely because of DeSantis’s obstinacy, Florida is one of 10 states that have refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, an act of political spite that has cost those states billions in federal health care dollars and cost thousands of people their lives. More than 12% of Floridians are without medical insurance, a worse record than all but four other states. Despite having the country’s highest percentage of retirees, Florida has the worst long-term care among the 50 states, according to the American Association of Retired Persons. Public schools fare no better than health care in DeSantis’s Florida. Not only did Florida rank 49th in the country for average teacher pay in 2020, but the Education Law Center, a non-profit advocacy group based in New Jersey, found in a 2021 report that the state had the seventh-lowest per-pupil funding in the country. Education Week, which ranks states public school annually, looking beyond mere test scores, placed Florida 23rd in its 2021 report, a lackluster showing for a large and wealthy state. This is just part of what this man has done to Florida. He knows nothing about governorship. Cutting healthcare. Mental Health cuts Climate change denier Bully Suing and trying to control corporations. Florida has not always been this way. It was bad under Scott but nothing like this point and time in Florida under this Fascist. Are you all just dying to have this guy as president? We definately needed better mental health considering how mentally disturbed the people who put this guy in charge must be. Think it can’t happen? Think again. Donald Trump #1 for President for Republicans…..Ron Desantis # 2. The insane have actually taken over the asylum. Time for the sane to go to the hospital but who could afford it? [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/24/2177327/-So-this-man-wants-to-make-America-Florida-Look-at-the-facts-and-shudder-to-even-imagine Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/