In Which Prick Scott's Governorship Effects My Family

My son Hank just got notified that he's part of the cost-cutting measures being taken by our governor.
Meaning- he's out of work.
He works, okay, USED to work, for the Department of Children and Families which was already cut to the bone and just got cut even farther today. Into the bone. Into the marrow.

Buh-bye!

Children and Families.

It's not just our family which is going to be affected by this. Believe me.

Lots of children, lots of families.

The thing about working for the state here was never that it made you rich. Oh hell no. You work for the state on a lower-level job and you live paycheck to paycheck. Sometimes you get to the end of the month and can still make your phone payment. Sometimes you can't.
But.
You had job security.
You had benefits.
You could go see a doctor if you got sick.

Speaking of sick, that's the way I feel.

Hank'll figure something out. He's a smart man. But my god, the hours he's put into that job, the promotions he was promised and never got as one position after another got simply eliminated.

And now- don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.

Thanks, Prick Scott!

Now go have lunch with some of your big business cronies and tell them how well you're doing at getting Florida all set up for them to move in and take over with no taxes to pay and plenty of grease to make things all easy.

Just pray that neither you nor them will even need the services of the Department of Children and Families.
Because chances are good, no one's going to answer the phone if you do.

Meanwhile, another five hundred people are going to be applying for unemployment. Real good economic sense.

That's all I have to say about that.

For now.