high speed rail

[ABYSS64]

not told. if you put a high speed rail down the center of 1-4 ,you will never be able to travel that roadway for the next 10 years, if lucky ever. Bill Nelson Get Over IT..

Hell the first 10 years I lived in Florida you couldn't travel it so why should this be any different?? Don't fret though, the dot and people that govern that stuff have their head up there asses all over!!
Around here they claim they have no money to fix the roads yet they can give million dollar contracts to have the freakin trees trimmed back. I guess that's so when the pot holes jack your ass over in the ditches you won't hit any trees!!!!!!

[Rick Williamson]

I was neutral on the high speed rail deal but he is a real d*** for what he and the other republicans are doing to the teachers. You can't put all of the burden of learning to be put on them it all starts at home.

Poor babies. you fire the bad ones. By the by they AREN'T putting ALL the burden on teachers. It's about half. And the I'm a republican also. And I also agree with you that it starts at home. But public unions have to GO!!!

[TINYTIMDSS]

hello if we drill in the Gulf it would creat jobs biulding the high speed rail train would creat jobs

[bubba]

Rick Scott doesn't give a rats ass about education or public service in the state. He is concerned about making money for his friends in business (and that ain't you or me). He got elected by the buzz word/sound byte crowd and now we all will pay.

He is destroying one of the basic tenets of our society - public education. Without it 99% of you could not even read this post. My wife is a non union teacher with accolades and awards to warrant that she would do well under some merit pay plan..however there are several segments of students who nobody will want to teach anymore because they don't show large gains - special ed and gifted children. The list goes on about what is wrong with the slash and burn mentality, but nobody in Tallahassee is interested in fixing it, just cutting budget.

We are fortunate in that we don't to rely on my wife's income and she does it because she loves it. Most teachers are not in that situation and cant afford cuts to any of the "benefits" they have now.

Similar efforts are affecting police/fire/emt you name..this guy is destroying - not fixing things.

[ronabneysr]

rick scott showed some retirement papers few days ago

i like the one were the guy drove the pick up truck and sprayed the ditches ,
and sprayed for mosquitoes
his retirement per year was 174'000 dollars

[bubba]

Those numbers are pure bullsh1t with regard to an annual pension number.

However..on their topic of high speed rail, I do agree that it is useless without decent mass transit on either end of it which neither city has. Not to mention ridership numbers are sketchy at best. So, I do agree with that alien looking criminal on this one.

[9498clay]

he is an alien looking criminal ill give you that .......alex sink is an evil lookin bitch ....lesser of the two evils ,,,,just like the last presidintal elections

[Rick Williamson]

Rick Scott doesn't give a rats ass about education or public service in the state. He is concerned about making money for his friends in business (and that ain't you or me). He got elected by the buzz word/sound byte crowd and now we all will pay.

He is destroying one of the basic tenets of our society - public education. Without it 99% of you could not even read this post. My wife is a non union teacher with accolades and awards to warrant that she would do well under some merit pay plan..however there are several segments of students who nobody will want to teach anymore because they don't show large gains - special ed and gifted children. The list goes on about what is wrong with the slash and burn mentality, but nobody in Tallahassee is interested in fixing it, just cutting budget.

We are fortunate in that we don't to rely on my wife's income and she does it because she loves it. Most teachers are not in that situation and cant afford cuts to any of the "benefits" they have now.

Similar efforts are affecting police/fire/emt you name..this guy is destroying - not fixing things.

Yes we of our generation can read. BUT not thoses kids that are coming out of school NOW! I saw figures out last week that 82% the kids now adays can't read at an 8th grade level when they get out of school. Teacher and others CAN afford to pay a % into their retirement. I know I had to do it at my job. And they raised the % twice when I was working. I was glad to do it. I knew that by doing it I was making sure my retirement check would always be there!!!. Paying 5% into their retirement is a he$$ of as lot better then getting np pay check. There are less and less of US out here pay for her and all fire and police pay checks. And a lot of us out here that still work haven't had a pay raise in years! Thoses you are talking about can't say that.

[Bigbuck]

This forum needs a politics section

[John Berti]

I had to pay into the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement System towards my retirement pension. I was shocked to see that Florida teachers don't have to do likewise. Any state employee, for that matter, should have to pay into a fund for their retirement. No free retirement income at taxpayer expense. You wonder why this state is in a financial crisis, well this is one of the biggest factors.

[DeMan951]

I had to pay into the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement System towards my retirement pension. I was shocked to see that Florida teachers don't have to do likewise. Any state employee, for that matter, should have to pay into a fund for their retirement. No free retirement income at taxpayer expense. You wonder why this state is in a financial crisis, well this is one of the biggest factors.

But the teachers make a lot more up there then they do here man.

As a teacher in Massachusetts, consider this: the state boasts the third highest average teacher salaries in the nation—$68,000 in 2009-2010—according to the National Education Association.

The average salary paid to a Florida public school teacher in the 2009-10 school year was $46,696.

[Bigbuck]

But the teachers make a lot more up there then they do here man.

As a teacher in Massachusetts, consider this: the state boasts the third highest average teacher salaries in the nation—$68,000 in 2009-2010—according to the National Education Association.

The average salary paid to a Florida public school teacher in the 2009-10 school year was $46,696.

Wish I made that much, and what is it 3-4 weeks off for christmas, thanksgiving, and half the summer, I don't think its all that bad.

[Rick Williamson]

But the teachers make a lot more up there then they do here man.

As a teacher in Massachusetts, consider this: the state boasts the third highest average teacher salaries in the nation—$68,000 in 2009-2010—according to the National Education Association.

The average salary paid to a Florida public school teacher in the 2009-10 school year was $46,696.

951, what you and others like you forget, not know or don't care to share. And is that state has some of the highest tax rates in the country. Plus I also think it has a state income tax. WHICH WE DON'T! Like I said in an earlier post why don't they want to help ensure that their retirement IS there by putting in part of the money. And if we don't have the teachers start helping out with THEIR retirements, how will we pay for it. Yep right MORE NEW TAXES!!!! So their going to pay it one way or another!

[UREZ2PASS]

Teachers are not the enemy guys. What you are doing by supporting the pension changes is taking money out of their pockets. They have been without raises for many years which they accepted.

They should have held out for the raises and paid some into the pension system because they would be better off today.

If you want them to contribute to their pension, give them an equal raise.

Before you blast me, anyone in the good old USA had the same opportunity to become a teacher. Many quality people took different careers due to the low pay teachers are paid.

Would any of you be so supportive of making them take a pay cut ? They are already underpaid !

[dave41]

.retirement

they get their money back when they retire. 15 years from now it will take 80 % of our budjet just to pay retirements . good luck.