Jeb Bush as with
Bernie Sanders
Remember the
2008 (CHANGE) bumper stickers?
Same old Same old!
Remember my past
post on Senator Bernie Sanders?
Checks and Balance
You see Mr. Bush,
because of checks and balances in our government, you can do none of those
things you have stated below without the permission of congress.
And as of this
speech of yours you are of their hit list!
“Good Luck with
that!”
Jeb Bush and Bernie
Sanders are just a couple of Professional Politicians spewing the same old
tried and true Proper-gander and you are buying it, Again?
Jeb Bush on Federal
Spending
("used the
speech to push for a handful of policy proposals he said will clean up
Washington")
President can only
propose congress might not act!
("outlining a
plan to blunt elected officials' ability to get rich by leaving office and
quickly turning around to lobby their former colleagues")
"Good Luck with
that!"
("Bush
delivered the roughly 30-minute speech to a room stocked with more than 200
allies, many of whom worked in his administration before transitioning to the
lobbying firms that line Tallahassee’s downtown streets")
("Bush
highlighted lobbying reforms he signed while he was in office")
Reforms and
highlight's and not a law, are a request!
("He called for
federal lobbying reforms, including forcing members of Congress to post any
meetings with lobbyists online, and extending to six years a ban on members
leaving office and becoming lobbyists")
Good Luck with that
Jeb!"
(“If I am elected
president, I will use all of my influence to enact into law an immediate,
unequivocal six-year ban on lobbying — a full Senate term — for ex-members of
the House and Senate,”)
As president your
influence and $5.00 might get you a cup of coffee in Washington?
("Bush slashed
the state workforce by 13,000 workers — or about 11 percent — in his eight
years in office")
Is this something to
brag about from Floridians starving and begging for work?
("Bush also
boasted of his heavy veto pen as governor, having vetoed over $2 billion in
state spending, which earned him the nickname “Veto Corleone.”)
Floridians are still
suffering because of you and your pen and now we have a "Jeb Bush"
Clone!
2016 Republican
presidential candidate Jeb Bush (R-FL) gave the first in a series of policy
addresses in which he outlined his domestic priorities if elected president. He
focused on his budgetary record as Florida governor, priorities for reducing
government spending, reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs, and
improving the economy. He spoke at Florida State University in Tallahassee,
Florida.
“Most of those cuts
had been employees that were in critical services,” said Democrat Dan Gelber,
who served in the House from 2001 to 2008, in an interview before the speech.
“Florida has always been austere. We did not have a lot of staff before the cuts.”
Though he racked up
large numbers of vetoes, the size of the Florida’s overall budget did grow from
roughly $50 billion during Bush’s first year in office to $71 billion when he
left in 2007.
Bush said as
president he would push for a balanced budget amendment, saying he had
“balanced Florida’s budget” for eight consecutive years. (Florida politicians
regularly tout a balanced budget on the stump, without mentioning that the
state constitution requires a balanced budget.)
Bush also cited
improvements to the state’s child welfare system while he was in office,
including changes spurred by the death of 4-year-old Rilya Wilson, was a foster
child in the care of the Department of Children and Families.
She disappeared in
2000, but DCF did not notice she was missing until 2002. Her death prompted the
“Rilya Wilson Act,” a 2003 law that required children in state custody enrolled
in an early learning program to attend that program five days per week. An unreported
absence now prompts a DCF home visit.
“Working with the
Florida legislature we stepped up our commitment to community-based care and
made the system much more responsive,” Bush said.
But Gelber, who
served as the House’s top Democrat just after Bush’s tenure, said the deep cuts
across state government had contributed to a dangerous lack of oversight at the
agency. (A Miami Herald investigation
in 2014 found that 477 children whose cases had some contact with the
department had died since 2008, the year after Bush left office.)
“I don’t know how
anyone can point to hundreds, maybe thousands, dying without regretting not
having that oversight,” said Gelber.
Bush did not meet
with reporters after the speech. Aides said they were “crunched for time,” but
would not elaborate on the candidate's schedule
You see Mr. Bush,
because of checks and balances in our government, you can none of those things
without the permission of congress.
And as of today's
speech of yours you are of their hit list!
“Good Luck with
that!”
All bills formally
originate in the House.
(The President or
the Senate can propose legislation, but unless the house introduces it, it goes
nowhere.)
Once they pass it,
it goes to the Senate.
If the Senate
approves the same version, it goes to the White House for signature.
If the Senate
modifies the bill, it goes back to the House for reconsideration and if they
don’t agree to the changes then it goes to committee to resolve the
differences.
Once the House and
Senate have both passed the same version, it’s off to the White House.
checks and balances