Let’s check out Senator Rick Scott’s Plan….
“The 12 Point Plan:
Americans deserve to know what we will do when given the chance to govern.”
“1. Education
Our kids will say the pledge of allegiance, salute the Flag, learn that America is a great country, and choose the school that best fits them.
We will inspire patriotism and stop teaching the revisionist history of the radical left; our kids will learn about the wisdom of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the founding fathers. Public schools will focus on the 3 R’s, not indoctrinate children with critical race theory or any other political ideology.”
Pledge of Allegiance
“Supreme Court said government could not compel citizens to salute the flag”
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
School Choice means Schools Choose – Kids can’t pick their parents – PUBLIC Education levels the playing field.
“Public schools will focus on the 3 R’s, not indoctrinate children with critical race theory or any other political ideology.”
“2. Color Blind Equality
Government will never again ask American citizens to disclose their race, ethnicity, or skin color on any government form.
We are going to eliminate racial politics in America. No government policy will be based on race. People “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” We are all made in the image of God; to judge a person on the color of their epidermis is immoral.”
There is never a lot of diversity at @GOP gatherings. I have spotted a pattern!
Count the minorities:
“3. Safety and Crime
The soft-on-crime days of coddling criminal behavior will end. We will re-fund and respect the police because, they, not the criminals, are the good guys.
We will enforce our laws, all of them, and increase penalties for theft and violent crime. We will clean up our cities and stop pretending that crime is OK. We have zero tolerance for “mostly peaceful protests” that attack police officers, loot businesses, and burn down our cities.”
I have some maps:
Cities? Crime? Your state of Florida Senator Scott?
“4. Immigration
We will secure our border, finish building the wall, and name it after President Donald Trump.
Nations have borders. We should give that a try. President Trump’s plan to build a wall was right. We welcome those who want to join us in building the American dream, immigrants who want to be Americans, not change America. We are a stronger nation because we are a nation of immigrants, but immigration without assimilation makes us weaker. Politicians from both parties talk big about border security and do nothing. We are done with that.”
Biden does not have an Open Border. The percentage of US population that are unauthorized immigrants has not changed since 2000.
I have been to EL Paso – you can scroll up Senator Scott to compare El Paso’s crime rate to your Jacksonville and Pensacola.
What used to be my GOP has become a party of Nativist Bigots
“5. Growth / Economy
We will grow America’s economy, starve Washington’s economy, and stop Socialism.
Socialism is un-American and always leads to poverty and oppression. We will stop it. We will shrink the federal government, reduce the government workforce by 25% in 5 years, sell government buildings and assets, and get rid of the old, slow, closed, top-down, government-run-everything system we have today.”
Where is the HOW Senator Scott? SPECIFIC cuts? SPECIFIC plans?
“6. Government Reform and Debt
We will eliminate all federal programs that can be done locally, and enact term limits for federal bureaucrats and Congress.
Many government agencies should be either moved out of Washington or shuttered entirely. Yesterday’s old government is fundamentally incompatible with the digital era. The permanent ruling class in Washington is bankrupting us with inflation and debt, so they must be removed. For you to have more, Washington must have less.”
WHICH Federal Programs Senator Scott?
“7. Fair Fraud-Free Elections
We will protect the integrity of American Democracy and stop left-wing efforts to rig elections.
Today’s Democrat Party is trying to rig elections and pack the courts because they have given up on Democracy. They don’t believe they can win based on their ideas, so they want to game the system and legalize voter fraud to stay in power. In true Orwellian fashion, Democrats refer to their election rigging plans as “voting rights”. We won’t allow the radical left to destroy our democracy by institutionalizing dishonesty and fraud.”
“8. Family
We will protect, defend, and promote the American Family at all costs.
The nuclear family is crucial to civilization, it is God’s design for humanity, and it must be protected and celebrated. To say otherwise is to deny science. The fanatical left seeks to devalue and redefine the traditional family, as they undermine parents and attempt to replace them with government programs. We will not allow Socialism to place the needs of the state ahead of the family.”
Socialism again?
Is this a veiled attack at the LGBTQ community Senator Scott?
“9. Gender, Life, Science
Men are men, women are women, and unborn babies are babies. We believe in science:
Men and women are biologically different, “male and female He created them.” Modern technology has confirmed that abortion takes a human life. Facts are facts, the earth is round, the sun is hot, there are two genders, and abortion stops a beating heart. To say otherwise is to deny science.”
The GOP is NOT Pro-Life – it is PRO-Birth to pander for votes. Child support at Conception? @gop and Evangelists profess to love babies BEFORE they are born, but once they ARE born they could care less about their healthcare, nutrition, housing, safety or freedom.
I spoke too soon. Here is the attack on the LGBTQ community. The Democrats?
“10. Religious Liberty and Big Tech
Americans will be free to welcome God into all aspects of our lives,
and we will stop all government efforts to deny our religious freedom and freedom of speech. The Democrat Party and their Big Tech allies are not merely secular; they have virtually created a new religion of wokeness that is increasingly hostile toward people of faith, particularly Christians and Jews. They are determined to drive all mention of God out of public view. We will not be silenced, canceled, or told what words to use by the politically correct crowd.”
Have you ever read Matthew 25:31-46 Senator Scott? If you had, your views on immigration would be far different.
The Bible says to welcome immigrants. So why don’t white evangelicals?
“68 percent of white evangelicals say America has no responsibility to house refugees.“
“11. America First
We are Americans, not globalists.
America will be dependent on NO other country. We will conduct no trade that takes away jobs or displaces American workers. Countries who oppose us at the UN will get zero financial help from us. We will be energy-independent and build supply chains that never rely on our adversaries. We will only help countries that are willing to defend themselves, like Israel.”
We are in a Global World now Senator Scott. We have multi-national corporations around the world. You may want to study US History and research how “America First” hasn’t worked in the past? Google Smoot-Hawley…
What Is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? History, Effect and Reaction
What Is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. import duties with the goal of protecting American farmers and other industries from foreign competition. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is now widely blamed for worsening the severity of the Great Depression in the U.S. and around the world.”
“KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The Smoot-Hawley Act was created to protect U.S. farmers and other industries from foreign competitors.
- The Smoot-Hawley Act increased tariffs on foreign imports to the U.S. by about 20%.
- At least 25 countries responded by increasing their own tariffs on American goods.
- Global trade plummeted, contributing to the ill effects of the Great Depression.
- Prior to signing the Act, more than 1000 economists urged President Hoover to veto it.
- Hoover’s successor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt worked to reduce tariffs and was given more authority to negotiate with heads of state under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934.”
“We will be energy-independent”
We have never been energy-independent.
Biden approves largest oil, gas lease sale in US history, steamrolls eco review with inflation bill
“President Biden reinstated the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history, essentially steamrolling the need for environmental review, by signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law on Tuesday.”
Who was POTUS in 2021?
The United States was a total petroleum net exporter in 2020 and 2021
“12. Cutting Taxes
NOTE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN: This plan cuts taxes. Nothing in this plan has ever, or will ever, advocate or propose, any tax increases, at all.
Stop Congress from bankrupting America. The federal government is quickly bankrupting America. Congress must be stopped, read how.”
The old GOP ‘Cut Taxes” promise. You mean cut taxes for Donors – and GOP legislators.
How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress
“The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a case study of how lawmakers make themselves richer with the bills they pass.”
Donors?
Who benefited most from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?
“On the whole, low-income families appear to have received the least savings, while high-income families saved the most. Middle-class families saw mixed results. The biggest winners from Trump’s tax cuts were probably businesses. Between 2017 and 2018, corporations paid 22.4% less income tax. The total value of refunds issued by the IRS to businesses also increased by 33.8% nationally.”
The 2017 Tax Cuts Didn’t Work, The Data Prove It
“Republicans in Congress and President Trump touted the benefits of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 as game changing. Showering the richest Americans and corporations even more money was supposed to lead to more business investments. These investments, the argument went, would translate into more productivity growth. Workers would then supposedly see an additional $4,000 per year in wages. And faster economic growth and higher wages would result in more tax revenue, thus paying mainly for itself.
These were empty promises. Businesses did not use the windfall of new cash to invest in new machines, technology, office parks and manufacturing plants. Without an acceleration in business investment, though, American workers will not see the bumps in pay promised over the longer term. The richest Americans instead got even richer while corporations used a lot of the new money to keep shareholders happy . Federal budget deficits quickly ballooned because there was no faster growth and more revenue to offset the hundreds of billions lost each year to the predictably wasteful tax cuts.”
The 2016 @GOP platform promised to balance the budget.
2017 – @gop and @realDonaldTrump gave Berkshire-Hathaway $29 Billion (with a B!)
Where is your concerns about Climate Change Senator Scott? Your grandkids grandkids wish you would worry about that.
So to recap. No SPECIFIC plans. NO actual Bills. No DETAILS. Reminds me of something……..
