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Rick Scott U.S. Senator from Florida

Florida's Economic Model Is Attracting Frightened New Yorkers

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Speaker 1 Sunday morning, calling in is the great state of well Senator Rick Scott from the great State of Florida, and Florida is becoming even a greater state. I mean, there’s so many things going on, it is unbelievable, Senator Scott.

I mean I gave out these numbers the other day. Twenty four million people in Florida just about. And the budget is less than New York City, which is eight and a half million people. And the budget is like ten billion dollars more a year for eight and a half billion people versus twenty four What are you guys

doing You were the governor for what twelve years was it in Florida? What do you guys do right? Eight years? What are you guys doing so right?

Speaker 2 Allas of budging John, It’s actually not that hard. We do what families care about, and we don’t waste our money on other things. We work on getting people jobs, work on making sure kids have great school choice and then get a great education, keep the cost of living down, focus on law enforcement, make sure you can be safe

in your neighborhood. So and we don’t waste your time on other stuff. When I was governor, we added one point seven million jobs when I became governor, and twenty eleven New York was had more people than Florida. I think eight years later we had four million more people in Florida than in New York. Because people are tired.

They’re tired of the taxes, the fees, the add to New York. Like you look at Mandambi right now. You see this anti jew, anti seven Sism, anti Israel attitude that Mondamie has enough. It’s now always happening to my Jewish friends. I mean, they’re protesting and their neighborhood and Mondami does nothing. They put their stroke lights in front

of the little Jewish boys. Mondami does nothing about it. So he’s gonna get. He’s gonna get. There’s more people are going to continue to leave New York City because of people like Mondami. I did a letter to the Department of Justice the other day. I want to throw investigation of what’s going on in New York City and

why why won’t hold anybody accountable. I want our Department of Justice, owner Donald Trump to do the right thing and hold the people doing these things accountable to the full extend the law. This is despicable, but Mandomi has done in New York City.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean he you know, I am praying. You know, President Trump originally gave me the mission to get Curtis Lea out of the election in New York City, and I failed it because Curtis stayed in. We got the lowest number ever in uh Republican history, seven percent. And President Trump said I’d rather have a Democrat Andrew Cuomo

than than than have a socialist. And it was a perfect storm. And uh, I guess he got elected. And I’m hoping that some common sense comes about him. But right now, I mean, time is gonna run out. And I said to him when I met with him, is he’s on the edge of disaster and the edge of success.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean it’s you know, it’s like he wants to open up a grocery store, right. I mean, socialism has never ever worked. The only way people say in power and socialism is they kill everybody that opposes them. So, but the violence right now on the streets in your against Jews is extremely dangerous. These are terrorst sympathizers who

only care about hurting our Jewish citizens and hurting Israel. So it’s unlawful and un American So I wish that Bondami or Hope or somebody up there. If not, I hope the Department, just a Department of Justice, is able to do something.

Speaker 1 I hope so, and I hope that they checks and balances work in New York and we’re all working hard for that. What else keeps you up at three o’clock in.

Speaker 2 The morning, Well, we’ve got to figure out how to make sure a Ran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon. So I applaud President Trump for all his efforts to make sure Iran cannot kill kill us by you know, by you know, getting a nuclear weapon into New York City or any other place in the country. So I know

President Trump is working hard on this. Hopefully the Iranian regime will come to their senses and they will never have a nuclear weapon, never have blisting missiles. They’ll stop being the death machine. They have been a death machine for forty seven years, death machine to Americans for forty seven years. It’s the most evil group. You look at these,

you look at what She’s done, and Prudent’s done, and the eye had totally done. You think, who wants to destroy other people’s lives like this? Don’t they don’t they care about somebody. So I’m applauded the President because he’s trying his best to try to improve the world for all Americans.

Speaker 1 You know. The one of the big things that we’re all concerned about is the election in November, and I believe that our energy prices have to be way down, you know, back to normal by September, and our interest rates have to come down because uh Chairman Powell, I think was working against the system and added politics to

the system versus just plain finance. Any gut feeling.

Speaker 2 Well, I’m hopeful that the Iranian conflict will be over. I applied the president what he’s trying to do. I think Kevin Warsh, the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is going to have a difficult time cleaning up, but he’s smart, he’s going to work hard. The problem we have with inflation, actually long term is nothing the President can do. Is

what Congress has to do. We have to balance the budget. We passed the budgets running two trading dollars deficits. It’s fortun the Thoroughgramma to buy our issue another two trading dollars for the Treasure’s year, So that makes it very difficult for interest rates to come down. But I know this president cares about balance, advise it. Unfortunately, we have

a Congress now that doesn’t. They want earmarks like we’re spending We’re spending money all over this country, like there’s money for a fake elephant exhibit on the New Jersey term part. I get think it is it is it?

I mean, you can’t spend money. You wouldn’t spend your money like this, John, Why is the government spending your money like this? Makes you? It just makes you mad. Thousands of earmarks by these Democrats.

Speaker 1 Well, Senator, all we can do is me and you and the people that care about our kids and grandkids to work harder and try to get some common sense in America. And the only thing that’s going to change, I mean, the Democratic Socialist Party, Senator, has taken over the Democratic Party, and and you know what it’s gonna take.

It’s gonna take what happened in nineteen eighty four, and the Republican Party has to win forty nine states and that way the Democrats party will learn this lesson. We’ll do it.

Speaker 2 It’s going to happen. I’m opportunis so people are mad. People are going to show up this November.

Speaker 1 Well, Senator Rick Scott, thank you for calling in this Sunday morning, and let’s talk again

Speaker 2 Real soon, all right, did John have a good day

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