Posted on 03/29/2005 2:11:48 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
What happened? Hello? Hello? Anybody home?
By Governor-elect Jeb Bush
"Talking with a variety of Floridians with disabilities and their families has helped understand a lot more about the lives, challenges and dreams of those with disabilities. However, I know that my education continues with everyone new I meet.
People with disabilities are no different than anyone else. They want to work, have families, and live independently. As Governor, I would work hard to create an environment that gives people with disabilities every opportunity to be independent and play an active role in their communities and in our State.
My first experiences with disability issues were visiting with adults and children with developmental disabilities, their families, advocates, and providers.
I have been impressed by the differences between persons with these disabilities who remain in their homes, receiving community-based support services and similar persons living primarily in institutional or large residential facilities. What I observe is not just a difference in expression, it's a difference in the way they act, how they respond, how they interact with the people around them, how they look, how they talk, and probably in how they will face life with its opportunities and challenges.
I am convinced that, whenever possible, Floridians with disabilities should be able to remain in their communities with their families, friends or roommates and receive the support services they require.
That way, their lives are enriched and they continue to enrich the lives of their families, friends and communities. Of course, in cases of severe and profound disabilities, there may be no option other than a dedicated residential facility. That choice should be preserved.
In order for individuals to be able to live at home or on their own, there must be an excellent, responsive network of support services available to assist them and their families. Funding needs to be shifted to provide the full range of these services. In turn, more individuals can be served and with a broader range of services, such as transportation or respite care that have often been unavailable in the past.
As Governor, I will work to allow individuals with disabilities and/or their families to have more say about what services and necessary treatments are provided, based on each person's professionally identified needs.
This is a time of setting new directions in care for people with disabilities here in Florida. I have reviewed the Governor's Task Force proposal for the future of DD services and I am waiting for an independent study on the future of developmental disability services that was contracted by the Legislature and will be released shortly. Both of these will help a Bush Administration to make detailed decisions to assist individuals with disabilities. My team will also monitor Washington legislation and work with our Congressional delegation to ensure that federal initiatives are responsive to Florida's needs.
On a separate note, I also have come to realize the importance of educating the public about people with disabilities and disability issues. Too often, people react in fear or distaste when coming face-to-face with persons with disabilities. These people simply lack the necessary knowledge to understand persons with disabilities.
If elected, I will work with state agencies and disability organizations to help erase that insensitivity. If people understand more about how to interact with persons with disabilities, their fear will be diminished. That will open up more opportunities for education, employment, and participation in community life.
In addition, I will support educational programs about disabilities in our schools. Young children are especially receptive and accepting, and their understanding will help bring about changes in everyone's misconceptions about disabilities. I would also support efforts to mainstream children with disabilities whenever possible.
Finally, my Administration will support full compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This is vital, not just for the individuals themselves, but for the communities that will be enriched and blessed by their contributions and participation in community life.
I know that there are other issues that need to be addressed. The state has complex legal mandates to meet. The waiting lists need to be cut way back. The best way for me to lead on these issues is to continue to learn the people who are living those issues day-to-day, their families, and the professionals who provide the care. Let's work together to make Florida a better home for people with disabilities."
Furthermore, we don't murder people because they can't feed themselves. That's outrageous! Don't even get me started on the self-proclaimed "paramilitaries" arresting Americans for trying to give water to a woman. It's nuts! and UnAmerican. It's the clinton position, in a nutshell.
What is American is disobedience to unjust laws. From our nations founding.
""We can't be fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."
--William J. Clinton
I agree. Shameful scapegoating.
You win. I'm only 52 years old and a career military veteran. This is why I've become VERY bored with FR. I'm certain you have MUCH greater life experiences than I. If this is the best that FR has to offer, I am OUT OF HERE.
MODERATOR - pull my plug. This isn't worth the bandwidth.
You beat me, I'm only 46, but my kid is in Iraq. Don't leave. Just don't diss Freepers. We are on the same page, we just have to find that page.
The lawyers really screwed this up.
Interesting: "I know that there are other issues that need to be addressed. .... Let's work together to make Florida a better home for people with disabilities." Gotta say, I agree w/him here.
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I will not stop, because it is. And I apparently have many on this thread who agree with me on that, even though they disagree with me on Jeb's failure to act.
That's the way the left is framing it.
As well they should.
I see this as a Constitutional issue. This woman's rights are being trampled. Denied.
So do I. And that's exactly how I see the abortion issue, too.
Furthermore, we don't murder people because they can't feed themselves.
Agreed.
WRONG. You cannot see without cerebral cortex. You would be cortically blind. You could not follow with your eyes. You would have no recognition ability. You would have no emotion. Read up on your functional neuroanatomy before making such uninformed silly statements.
WRONG. You cannot see without cerebral cortex. You would be cortically blind. You could not follow with your eyes. You would have no recognition ability. You would have no emotion. Read up on your functional neuroanatomy before making such uninformed silly statements.
Oh, please. Let's go ahead and call a governor we used to appreciate as a friend of the Right a Pilate, a hypocrite, a party to murder, a coward, a loser... but please, dont' diss Freepers. We're just one happy family.
Uh oh, watch out! You will not be branded as "irrational" because you don't agree with flaglady! Facts be damned!
My nephew is also in Iraq, and I WILL diss Freepers when Freepers need to be dissed. I am trying to do what I can to ground my nephew's kids on a solid foundation. When Freepers think they don't need to be dissed, they have become Liberals. That said, hopefully we can find some middle ground somewhere.
Florida Statute ( Denying food and water is a 3rd degree felony)(There is much more in the statute, I copied this portion)
http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0825/SEC102.HTM&Title=-%3E2004-%3ECh0825-%3ESection%20102#0825.102
A person who knowingly or willfully abuses an elderly person or disabled adult without causing great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement to the elderly person or disabled adult commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(2) "Aggravated abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult" occurs when a person:
(a) Commits aggravated battery on an elderly person or disabled adult;
(b) Willfully tortures, maliciously punishes, or willfully and unlawfully cages, an elderly person or disabled adult; or
(c) Knowingly or willfully abuses an elderly person or disabled adult and in so doing causes great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement to the elderly person or disabled adult.
A person who commits aggravated abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(3)(a) "Neglect of an elderly person or disabled adult" means:
1. A caregiver's failure or omission to provide an elderly person or disabled adult with the care, supervision, and services necessary to maintain the elderly person's or disabled adult's physical and mental health, including, but not limited to, food, nutrition, clothing, shelter, supervision, medicine, and medical services that a prudent person would consider essential for the well-being of the elderly person or disabled adult; or
If you want to read the statute regarding exploitation of a disabled person's assets, it's here
http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0825/SEC103.HTM&Title=-%3E2004-%3ECh0825-%3ESection%20103#0825.103
"Ok, then you're just delusional."
You must be a liberal. You fail to answer my question and resort to personal attacks and name calling.
Maybe one day I'll be as smart and self aware as you are and I too will be able to judge which lives are worthy of continued feeding and which ones aren't.
Looks like Jeb has a leg to stand on. Question is, will he use the other leg to impliment this or stand there like a stork.
Does Florida law permit a judge to toss a governor in jail for disagreeing with a judicial opinion and acting against it? If so, it's the only state in the union that allows it.
The process in every state I know would suggest a trial by impeachment before the legislature if there are serious breaches of law involved.
The matter being debated before the legislature would be twofold:
1) Is the executive co-equal to the judiciary?
2) Has an action taken by the executive in some way violated a law?
If the legislature determines the executive is co-equal to the judiciary, no law has been broken. Thus, there are no grounds for arrest.
The next matter to be debated is who makes the better argument on a law's constitutionality - the executive or the judiciary?
From that the legislature can determine whether it will accept the executive or judicial branchs' interpretation.
If the legislature decided the executive committed some serious breach of law, the legislature could vote to impeach. On the other hand, if the legislature determined the judiciary had committed some gross violation, the judges would be impeached.
This, I believe, places the matter of which branch is supreme in a constitutional question where it belongs - the legislature, the elected house of the people. (Thomas Jefferson says so.:-)
Good question! Only God and Jeb know the answer to that one!
Oh please, let's stop calling everyone we disagree with Pilate or Hitler. It's really immature.
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