🚨 JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just went MAXIMUM HURRICANE RESPONSE MODE with a HUGE staging of electrical linemen, National Guard, food, water, fuel and more ahead of Hurricane Isaias' landfall
Florida State and National Guard ACTIVATED. TOLLS are being waived on multiple bridges
- 6,000+ utility linemen and restoration personnel
- 5,000 Florida National Guard soldiers mobilized by tomorrow
- 500,000 gallons of gasoline
- 900 FDOT personnel
- 300+ FHP quick response troopers
- 175 Florida State Guard soldiers
- 4 amphibious rescue teams
- 3 million+ MREs
- 300 pallets of food boxes
- 1.1 million bottles of water
- 1 million gallons of diesel
- 35,000 gallons of aviation fuel
- 1,000+ generators
- 260 pieces of heavy equipment
- 100 pumps
- 20 maritime vessels plus aircraft
- 10 airboats, 18 shallow-draft boats, 6 larger vessels
- 4 swamp buggies, 9 ATVs/side-by-sides, 75 4x4 vehicles
- 242 debris management sites pre-authorized
- Tolls waived on Garcon Point Bridge, Spence Parkway, and Mid-Bay Bridge
- 100+ ambulances
FLORIDA DOES HURRICANES RIGHT!!
I worked for over 55 years, paying into SS. IF I could have invested that money myself based on mine and my employers contributions, and account for average rates of returns over those years, I would have had OVER 2.25 MILLION dollars……. I will NEVER see that in my lifetime! Not to mention I had a sister pay in for 40 years, die and collect NOTHING. AND A BROTHER pay in 45 years and die after 2 years collecting! My mother paid in 50 years and collected for 3 years. My dad paid in 40 years and NEVER COLLECTED! I can’t help that the GOVERNMENT stole from the SS trust! STOP CALLING IT AN ENTITLEMENT! The government was entrusted with our money and FAILED US!
Thanks to @ISelChiProperty for this find. Dunedin budgets $909,800 yearly for 7 City Manager’s Office positions totaling 6.19 FTE. Then $663,321 was sent to an impostor. Part was recovered, but the public funded the insurance and Risk Fund response. You can’t make this up.
Thanks to @bluepointfish for this find. Bonita, Estero & Collier are committing $60.03M to buy 11.4 miles of unused rail corridor—$5.27M per mile. That’s primarily acquisition. Design, construction & maintenance come later!! But tax relief is “unaffordable”? Vote YES on 3!!!
We are the only country in the world that pays the medical bills of people who do not belong here, yet expects its own citizens to pay not only their own bills but also those of illegals. Then they expect us to accept it and shut up.
Are you sitting down?
There are 681 refugee and migration NGOs in America that make $2.36 billion per year.
Destroying America for Profit.
This must stop.
Rand Paul reveals Washington spent $4,600,000 of YOUR money to find out whether getting drunk makes you FALL DOWN.
Another $3,000,000 went to studying whether eating ants fights global warming.
$7,000,000 on a “smart toilet” that photographs your backside.
And $2,000,000 to learn if hot tubs help you relax.
Rand Paul kept the receipts. It gets dumber:
• NIH spent $1,000,000 to help people get over their fear of the dentist.
• USAID spent $48,000,000 to help disconnected Tunisian youth cope with modern society.
• NIH spent $36,000,000 to find out why stress turns hair gray.
• Washington even sent money to Central America to train people on how to apply for U.S. grants. Yes, really. We paid them to get better at taking our money.
Not one American with an ounce of common sense would vote to approve a dime of this garbage.
The government pisses away billions like this and never stops asking for MORE.
In 2019, New York Democrats blocked a bill to expand free college tuition for Gold Star families.
A week earlier, they passed $27 MILLION in tuition aid for illegal immigrants.
Fallen heroes families waited… Illegals got paid.
That's all you need to know about Democrat priorities.
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN HOW THIS ISN’T STEALING AND THEFT
By the time i’m 67, over $600,000 will be paid into social security on my behalf.
That money would have been worth $1.9M if i had gotten a 5% return. My annual interest would be $95k.
The GOVERNMENT promises me $3,075/month at 67 which is $37k/year.
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
OMG wake up people!! They are robbing us blind…and in broad daylight!!!! Take those sunglasses off! Vote YES on 3 like your life depends on it, because your daily life, when you look in the wallet & there’s not enough to cover your household bills absolutely does!! Vote YES on 3
DISNEY WORLD JUST RAISED ITS PRICES AGAIN.
The top annual pass is reportedly going up $120 to $1,749, and skipping the lines on every ride will now cost you $499.
Disney executives swear they're sensitive to families on a budget because the cheapest ticket is still $120.
Only a company this out of touch could call $120 a ticket a bargain with a straight face.
These are the same WOKE people who spent years lecturing America on politics instead of making the parks affordable for the families who built them.
Take your kids fishing this weekend instead, because it's cheaper and nobody will preach at you.
🚨 $652 MILLION TO OPERATE. $72.8 MILLION COLLECTED FROM RIDERS. THAT’S NOT A SMALL SUBSIDY — THAT’S A BUSINESS MODEL BUILT ON PUBLIC MONEY.
Riders covered only about 11% of operating costs in 2024.
County/local sources supplied $290.67 MILLION for operations and another $254.80 MILLION for capital — about $545.5 MILLION in local funding.
Public transit doesn’t have to make a profit.
But it should be pushed far closer to self-sustaining than this.
When taxpayers are carrying this much of the load, the question isn’t whether buses are useful.
The question is:
WHY DOES IT COST THIS MUCH TO PROVIDE THEM?
Open the books. Measure efficiency. Demand answers.
If we knew the honest truth about America's elections, we would probably learn that a whole bunch of Democrats, and probably some Republicans were installed by election fraud, not duly elected by the voters.
The Florida Sheriff's Association have seemingly gone QUIET lately. #LOBBYING
IRS 501(c)(3) CHARITABLE - yes "charitable" - tax exempt organizations like FSA are VERY LIMITED on the amount and type of LOBBYING they can do, legally.
Maybe they realized they were OVERREACHING on their LOBBYING efforts against Amendment 3?
They probably didn't think it wise to jeopardize their "charitable" non-profit status.
Let's give these GLUTTONOUS GRIFTERS a haircut.
And if you see ANY MORE propaganda, or alarmist, fear-mongering from Florida sheriffs or the FSA, post a link in the comments.
Vote YES on Amendment 3!
Sen. Joni Ernst reveals 6,000 IRS workers owe nearly $50,000,000 in unpaid taxes, or blew off filing altogether.
Rules for thee, not for the IRS.
Of thousands of delinquent workers, just 20 IRS employees who weren't paying their taxes were terminated. It's supposed to be a firing offense.
They hound you for every cent of YOUR paycheck. Yet thousands of them are dodging their own tax bills. Imagine what they’d do to you if the tables were turned.
Ernst is pushing two bills to hold them accountable: one to audit IRS employees, another to publicly name the federal workers who are delinquent.
You shouldn’t need an act of Congress to make the tax collectors pay their own damn taxes.
🚨 $771,051 IN TRANSACTIONS. 122 DUPLICATE VENDOR RECORDS. A $58,370 INVOICE FLAGGED AS “POTENTIALLY FICTITIOUS.”
And the audit even found pest-control billing tied to a former director’s personal residence while the billing information listed the Emergency Operations Center.
This is why we audit government.
Taxpayers deserve answers.
@JusticiarsWatch just for you..
Another fun fact: The government body collecting the tax gets to decide how much your home is worth in order to levy the tax.
Vote YES on Florida Amendment 3.