Posted on 01/29/2015 3:30:14 AM PST by kelly4c
I was just over looking at the DailyMail website and noticed that so many of the stories are out of Florida. A disproportionate amount it seems. Any Floridians here? Just what's going on in your state, do you feel anything's off-kilter?
Thanks for the ping!
DITTO THAT!
My focus has been national lately, what did I miss?
been here almost a year in Palm Coast. Moved from SEPA. Would not live farther south of here but we are in love with the “old Florida” feel of the east coast. Every day you wake up in paradise. Folks are nice, weather is good.
I was born 09/211/1935 in a home at 1629 SW 4 St. Doctor came to our home. My two Brothers and I grew up enjoying the life we had. During WW 2(not eleven) We had moved to 1945 NW 29 St., a semi-rural area
We had great neighbors from many countries,Scotland, Germany and Netherlands. Some, like us raised our own meat supply and vegetables during the war. We even got along with NewYorkers!
After the war was a different story. We no longer was a sleepy fishing village. We got a lot of ex-military personnel
and families. Then came the Hollywood, Ca., crowd, to Miami Beach.
When they left in 60s in came the European and Gay crowd.
I knew the family that own the Island, which is now called Key Biscayne/ Crandon Park. I know a family That came to USA in 1910, with less than fifty dollars, and eventually own a large part of South Florida. Rich and poor we all worked as a community.
We all got along, until the US population began to believe God and everyone else owed then something and everything!
We also handled Criminal activities with swift Justice, at that time!
Note for swift Justice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Zangara
Today! Death warrants and Restraining Orders are more like toilet tissue.
When one reads about a criminal look at age and place of birth before one blames an area such as Florida, alone!
Casey Anthony and family were from Ohio. I levy no blame for her actions on Ohio.
We invite all to come down. Just behave! If you don’t like it here try Delta , I95, I75 or Amtrak. They all go NORTH.
I’d prefer a happy medium, I guess; I hate the winters here more each year, but not enough to burn in too much heat.
Definitely; the original refugees were staunch anti-communists generally from the middle and upper classes. Now many of the refugees are economic as opposed to political, and this has been used to press for revising the policy where those who “reach the beach” can stay.
One sign of this country’s deterioration was when many of the best and brightest from the world’s developed nations stopped coming here; we still attract those fleeing the Third World, but Europeans are increasingly willing to stay put.
My daughters introduced me to Florida Man when they were teenagers. Now, several years later, I still get links from them that are hilarious.
RIP Dewey.
In 99.9% of America there are good relations.
I am not giving you a hard time.
But I live in a very mixed urban area. I worked in the “black and hispanic” areas all through college and in my first few jobs afterwards.
Sure there are cultural differences. But I never met a person in their home who wasn’t nice. They were pleasant, polite, funny, and welcoming.
We went to work, we went to church. I get along fine.
The relatively few bad apples screw it up for everyone else. I think the worst thing that has happened over the last fifty years is that the “government” has forced everyone into the same round peg. We don’t want to be in pegs. We want to be left along.
In recent cross country trip I find this to be true everywhere I went. The people in this country are great.
We just want to be left alone.
I agree with you.I could not put it any better.
Florida . . . so much to say about it, so little time to do it. Born here, raised (for the most part) here, but would like to live elsewhere. Alas, family ties will no doubt keep me here forever. There is a lot to like about Florida, NOT including sweltering summers, mosquitos as big as drones, high crime, and crowding. There is a lot wrong here also, but I don’t begrudge anybody knocking Florida. What the heck? Such as it is, it’s home.
shhh, don’t let on!
We’re gonna tip over if anyone else comes aboard.
“St. Pete Pravda, err Tampa Bay Times, continuing it’s unending attacks on Gov. Scott. Situation, normal!”
The Star Banner in Ocala does the same thing. Disgusting.
Plant City’s a good place; I’ve had some good times there.
America used to make it easy for the bright students of the world to go to American universitiew where almost all of them went for engineerint and science and medicine. Then we made it easy for them to stay., We got the world’s brains then It is harder now for the bright students. Many still come here but then we make them go home when they get their degree. Just one of the ways America engineered its own decline.
I don’t think we make foreign engineers go home; I think they stay, which is probably why Americans are leery of investing in that kind of education.
Actually we are importing them on the notorious HB visas. The difference is they eventually have to go home. The complaints about importing these guys while American engineers are out of work is true in this recession but our industry has always relied on foreign engineers to eke out what our schools produce. As students graduating from American schools they were on the same competitive level as the citizens, The H1Bs are not. They get paid less and there is no retirement.It ws much more than engineers, though.We got the brains of the world and stayed way ahead of the rest of the world because we got all their best as well as had the best already. Now we train them and send them home to beef up the foreign sciences and industries and to staff our own as they go offshore where the tax structures allow them to remain competitive.
Do you remember the Sunny South Drive In and the Market Bar?
Engineering students have described to me how some of the foreigners get into another course of study so they can stay here. I personally know an engineering grad from India who has been allowed to stay; here in NJ the number of Asians being added to our population is incredible. I believe they are legally allowed to stay here (and work) while they complete paperwork for citizenship.
I don’t believe any foreigner from any country is being forced to leave - at all.
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