Jeb: the wrong man for the job

The SHT (that's "Sarasota Herald-Tribune") ^ | 1/19/2002 | Waldo Proffitt

[Joe Brower]

Work has been quite heavy this week, and I just this morning finally got to reading the Sunday op-eds. Lo and behold, there's Waldo, ranting and raving against a concept that he just can't wrap his little Marxist mind around -- the fact that government isn't the solution to every human problem in creation. More than that, we here in Florida actually have a man of principle as governor who states this truth flat-out. Utter blasphemy!

Memo to Waldo: Rant all you want, you fat-faced socialist twit. All the democrat demagoguery and leftmedia spin couldn't stop the majority of Floridians from seeing through your lies and rhetoric. The people of Florida told you buggers what we think in no uncertain terms just this past November. Take another Valium, Waldo, stay at home, and for God's sake stay away from that typewriter!

Hey, Waldo!

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[Joe Brower]

Pinging all concerned Floridians!

If you want to write a letter to the editor refuting this putz, the email address is "editor.letters@herald-trib.com".

Waldo doesn't give out any email or snail mail address to respond to him personally. Small wonder. I suppose the Postal Service doesn't deliver to his ivory tower.

[stainlessbanner]

I am pretty impressed JEB actually said "Government is not the answer" and to focus on "family, faith, and friends."

I applaud him for the courage to stand up and publicly make this statement. It's refreshing, actually.

[PhiKapMom]

Concur in all your graphics! What a moron to write this!

[volchef]

"There are dozens of nations in the industrialized world which more or less successfully take care of their less blessed citizens with well organized and supervised public programs. The plans are not perfect and they do cost money, which comes from taxes"

Oh Yeah??? Name one then. Maybe in your marxist idea of successful, but in most rational peoples' minds these people are probably drones of the state who are content living in squalor. What a moron.

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds like a SHTy editorial.

[lonestar]

I point out that the preamble to the Constitution names one of the purposes of government as "to promote the general welfare."

"Promote;" not provide.

[JohnGalt]

Sadly, he has just a few more degrees of conviction in that statement then Clinton who proclaimed just 8 years ago that the Era of Big Government is over.

[yoe]

"Consider the mathematics of the tragedy: Each year in Florida, eighty thousand children are born without a father in the home. Each year, there are eighty-five thousand abortions. And each year, eighty thousand marriages are dissolved. Sadly, today, almost fifty thousand children are in the custody of the state, and hundreds of thousands more aren't receiving the child support they are due.

And all this is because of a Republican Governor? Hardly! Not when just about 95% of all Florida government agencies are run by Democrats who continue to thwart any and all attempts to clean them up. The FL Supremes are no bundle of violets either.............

[cruiserman]

I am unable to cite an example of any state of the United States or of any nation in the world which has been able to take care of its poor, sick, homeless, very young or very old by relying on voluntary efforts from the communities of faith, friends or family.

Because taxes are too high.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Joe, if it wasn't you posting this, I'd be sure we had a disruptor in our midst. What crud.

Regards, Slim

[TatieBug]

Intend to drop WALDO a little note. Just curious, Why is WALDO a "former" editor?

[Brilliant]

So what's his beef? Bush's views are shared by most Floridians.

[KellyAdmirer]

If the only people in government were those who thought it had the answers to all the world's problems, pretty soon you would have socialism, and ultimately communist dictatorship. Which, I suppose, would be welcome to this guy.

[sport]

Hey Sheriff, take a gander.

[katherineisgreat]

THE SH-T STRIKES AGAIN!!

I think they will be getting a letter from me soon. SO KNEEJERKY!

[wku man]

Exactly...Mumbly Bill lost by how wide a margin? Where's Waldo? Out of his flippin' mind...

Scouts out! Cavalry Ho!

[clintonh8r]

...Floridians who, for any of a dozen legitimate reasons, require immediate help.

1. Too many babies, not enough daddies.

2. Too many drugs, not enough brains.

3. Gotta play the lottery, food and rent will have to wait.

4. I'm old and I want free prescription drugs and I want them now.

5. I'm part of The Greatest Generation, so piss on you.

6. I have a date, so I'll just leave my illegitimate babies with my crack-ho neighbor.

7. Greedy, evil plaintiff lawyers.

8. Miriam Oliphant needs millions of dollars to NOT do her job.

9. The solution to all our problems: Bigger and better Department of Children and Family Services!

10. The solution to all our problems, part two: Bigger and better educational bureucracy!

11. Illegal aliens. Millions of them.

12. More assholes like Waldo...

[JohnnyZ]

Wow, I hadn't really read these sections before. Jeb is the perfect governor!

"In the past, our response has been to raise more taxes, grow more government, and embrace the thin fiction that if only we can hire one more social worker or complete one more form then we can somehow reverse these corrosive trends and salvage these lives. But while these intentions may be noble these methods are folly . . . .

"There would be no greater tribute to our maturity as a society than if we can make these buildings around us empty of workers; silent monuments to the time when government played a larger role than it deserved or could adequately fill."