GOP women: pro-lifers can't forget abused kids

The Florida Federation of Republican Women today came out against the $50-million cut in funding for a abused children, including adoption assistance and money to enable 18-year-old high schoolers to avoid being kicked out of foster homes before graduation: "As our most helpless citizens, these children are entrusted to our collective care and have no one to speak on their behalf. As stewards for good government we have a responsibility to be a voice for Florida's abused children and advocate that they have every opportunity our tax dollars can provide," said FFRW President Linda Ivell.

"This is not a partisan issue, yet we belong to the party whose members often advocate for pro-life issues. I cannot imagine a more pro-life stance than advocating for state funding for living children who have been abused or abandoned by their parents," said Ivell, calling on the GOP-controlled legislators to find budget cuts elsewhere.

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Too bad Rubio doesn't have a "friend" who would profit from keeping the programs related to children intact - then not only would their budgets be safe - they would have increased.

Perhaps instead of giving $700 million to a for-profit corporation to do what the market-place should pay for some of this money could be used for abused, misused, neglected and or chronically sick children and for the handicapped and for the elderly.

Rubio, Pruitt, Hasner, Posey, Webster are NOT pro-life - they are merely anti-abortion.

arent children 'abused' enough, being raised by repiglicans?

selfish
greedy
self-absorbed
pathological liars
enablers of drunks and pedophiles
draft dodgers
racists

not what id want for any child of mine!!

[Lakeland Republicans]

Will someone please give Paula Dockery a switch card. I can't tell you how tired of her we are down here. All she does is whine and complain without getting anything done.

11:56 and 11:58 put down the kool-aid. I'm not Paula and I'm not a staffer of Paula's. What I am is a Republican of 35+ years who is OUTRAGED over the hijacking of the Republican Party I knew the party of compassionate conservatism - not the party of feeding at the trough for profit companies.

I am and was Pro-life before it was a mere soundbite.

$700 million to CSX and $265 million to Rubio's best friend for life while laying off child abuse investigators, foster care workers, & nursing home inspectors, while at the same time cutting health care programs for chronically ill children, and the medically needy isn't merely a fiscal decision it is an anti-life decision.

My solutions? Cut the $700 million to CSX. Cut the $265 million to Rubio's friend. Eliminate the $10,000 a month jobs as "consultants" to Rubio's friends. Eliminate Rubio's pork projects. Increase the tax on cigarettes by $1.00 per pack and reinstate the alcoholic beverage surcharge.

Sadly, the Grinch-sized hearts of the Republican leadership and their supporters match the size of their tiny ears - so tiny they won't hear the cries of the abused, misused, neglected, and ill.

Before you respond - take a moment and consider Matthew 25:40, "And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me.’"

How will you answer that question in light of CSX?

[ftdallasfantoms]

Anti abortion/choice, yes. Let's just hope that when Rubio decides to run for Governor or Attorney General the people remember what kind of leader he was as Speaker. Nothing but a Jeb Bush follower...remember that under his watch - for a decade plus - Florida has crashed and burned, and turned into THE worst in education, could not restore the Everlades, leased out roads to foreign company's, could not balance a budget for 12 months, rid ourselves of affirmative action, left Florida's most needy (have not even mentoned Florida's elders) in the dust.

Yeah, the party that is pro life! Please! Should be the party that is for selected life. The Florida Federation of Republican Women should be ashamed of themseves...selecting a few to advocate for, wow.

Change is coming in 2009, thank God! Too many mistakes and no leadership at all.

[ftdallasfantoms]

12:16...

As you can tell, we are not on the same side of many, many issues. But you are completely correct and I applaud your post. I am sad for so many people who will suffer under this budget. Perhaps we can get back to the middle and hammer out better deals once the elections are over. Thanks for writing...gave me a bit of hope!

Maybe the "Peopl's Governor" will finally step up for the people - the least powerful people of Florida, her children.

It is a disgrace that CSX is getting $500 million, Marco is making oiut and Charlie is hardly ever here. While we throw away Florida's future: our children!

Those girls are taking names.

Who prepares the budget? Isn't is Good-Time Charlie? Go knock on his door. Oh, that's right. He's is off campaigning for Vice-President.

Why would anyone want to cut abused and foster children's services yet fund the private company, CSX, for a half a billion dollars in the same budget? You may be interested to know that CSX reported record earnings in the first quarter of 2008:

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/041708/bus_269086260.shtml

"I cannot imagine a more pro-life stance than advocating for state funding for living children who have been abused or abandoned by their parents."

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Speakin- the truth Ruth.

Either get pro-choice or fund a decent start for the kids we have!

2:52 - Who ignores the Governor's recommendations and passes their own d*mn budget - the REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE. What can't get agreed upon in conference gets "bumped up" to Rubio and Pruitt.

Rubio and Pruitt will decide to spend $700 million on CSX and $265 million on Rubio's best friend for life while cutting child abuse investigators, fostercare workers, nursing home inspectors, education, programs for chronically ill children and the handicapped.

I urge you to support children and call, write and email your elected officials. They can't help if they don't know how their constituents feel.

Vote for a future for abused children! Vote down this immoral budget!

This is all Charlie Crist's fault. The Governor sets the budget. This is HIS budget that cuts kids off. Some "People's Governor"!

3:52 take the rest of the weekend off, you at RPOF. This is NOT the House or the Senate's Budget. It is the Governor's Bidget. Why is Charlie cutting off funding for kids??

And on Child Abuse Awareness Month, too!!

[Pat Sasso]

If EVERYONE does not take a firm stand and contact all who are and will make the decision for these cuts, then it
will be the FAULT of everyone who does NOT lift a finger to help. You better believe I WILL have all names of
those who would make these much needed funds stop. And I will do everything I can to STOP any re-election to those
who would do this to children who need our help. Please help these children.

[Toxic Liberal Totalitarians. Beware.]

Ben Stein's new film, Expelled, should be seen by anyone interested in the new Dark Age of totalitarianism which seems to be creeping through our institutions of communication, information and education. Perhaps only Stein could properly portray the Kafkaesque persecution of scientists, journalists and other professionals who challenge the increasingly untenable proposition that an almost incomprehensibly complex mechanism -- the living cell -- could have evolved through the oafish mechanism of natural selection.

The object of hatred by the automatons of hoary Darwinism are not just those honest and open minded thinkers -- some of whom are Christians, some of whom are Jewish, some of whom are agnostics -- but also hated is the very idea of a Blessed Creator. Not only are these haters clear about the necessity of Darwinism to be true, even if it is not true, but they are equally clear about their lust to deconstruct morality and to reduce life itself to a meaningless treadmill.

These haters have no compunction about destroying careers simply for the sake of intellectual terrorism. The merits of guided evolution are dismissed without discussion, and the victims of this terrorism are dealt with in a manifestly dishonest way. Stein shows his audience the letters from academic thugs who deny tenure to promising professors or who deal roughly with tenured professors -- letters which show that the official explanations for their "discipline" were transparent lies.

Science is not science at all, he shows us: It is simply an effort to compel any representatives of academia or foundations to parrot the core principles of nihilism, leaving man as god. Stein is not afraid to pursue that nihilism to its ultimate conclusion in the Nazi "mercy killings" of the handicapped or the Nazi extermination of Jews as "inferior creatures" in his grim walk through Dachau.

The ugly tapestry includes many threads. Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, respectable institutions in the eyes of ordinary Americans, held beliefs similar to Hitler; and before Hitler otherwise upstanding Americans were proposing things, in concept, as awful as Hitler. The perfection of humanity through selective breeding, though, comes earlier than Sanger or Hitler. Ben Stein quotes directly from Darwin in his Origin of Species, making it clear that to Darwin man was an animal, just like any farm animal, and that the perfection of humanity through "scientific" methods was commendable.

Stein allows closes the familiar escape hatch for this sort of malice toward human life and human purpose. Did Hitler know what he was doing? He certainly gobbled up Darwinism whole, and the "survival of the fittest" as a moral principle (or, rather, and amoral principle) fairly leaps from the pages of Mein Kampf. Hitler was not ignorant. But more importantly, Hitler was not insane. He was evil.

That is the darkest theme that runs like a cold, black undercurrent through Exposed. Evil is real, very real. Unless one is prepared to say the Holocaust was not evil (and some of the people who Stein interviews are quite willing to say just that), then evil is real. Unless one is prepared to say that firing serious professors to intimidate others into silence, and then lying about the reasons for the firings is evil, then evil is real. Unless one is prepared to say that concealing truth while hiding behind the banner of science is evil, thus insuring that science itself cannot progress, is evil, then evil is real.

Our lives have been saturated with scientific lies. Men and women are interchangeable parts, scientists once said, because the reality demanded by feminists required that lie. Millions of men and women have been sacrificed on the altar of that pseudo-scientific theology. More torment is being invented each day by the priests of political theology so that mythical global warning can be appeased like some vengeful Aztec deity. What has been called science is increasingly a sterile, humorless theology.

The limits of human knowledge are well known to scientists. You or I can have no real information about reality that at the time of our birth is travelling away from us at the speed of light. We can refer to what other people have said or seen or written, but we can never know anything at all. Nor can we know with precision what will happen at the subatomic level. The Uncertainty Principle is an absolute bar to anything more than statistical patterns and probabilities. And we have no idea at all how life began. One of the funny parts of Expelled is when Stein tries to pry from certain foes of God and guided evolution how life began. The first cell glommed on to a crystal, one hater opined. Space aliens brought life to Earth, another suggested, hastily adding that this civilization itself arose through Darwinian means.

It might have been nice if Stein had pointed out that the example typically given of evolution by natural selection -- white moths in industrial Great Britain dying when the smokestacks appeared and black moths surviving -- was a proof that no change in species and no mutations were required at all: The black and white moths were both of the same species.

It might also have been nice if Stein had delved a bit into the necessity of the Medieval university, which was profoundly religious, as the birthplace of all of what we call science today (thus showing that not only is religion not incompatible with science, but religion may be indispensable to science.)

But these are small criticisms indeed. Expelled is a masterpiece. Watch it. Tell your friends about it. And most of all, show it to your children.

FFRW is laying the groundwork for supporting SOMEBODY in a primary challenge to Charlie.

Now they want to start something for autism. Are they going to throw autistic children out on the street too? So CSX can make even MRE money?

For shame!!

April is now National Child Abuse Prevention Month. NOT!

Excuse me but not all GOP women are "pro-lifers". There are many of us who do not think government should be in that decision. Government should not mandate pregnancy.

6:24 Quite correct. In fact more Republicans are pro-choice than not. However, regardless of our position on life/choice, I think we can all agree we need to fund children's programs adequately. Especially kids who are already at risk. Otherwise we are just breeding the criminals of tomorrow.

5:30 pm: Go educate yourself before spouting off about things which you obviously know nothing about. The Governor does not "set" the budget, genius. The Governor makes his recommendations and the Legislature ultimately passes the budget. Jeez, Government 101.

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Ronald Reagan was dismissed by the intelligentsia as just an actor who read speeches written by others until history professor Kiron Skinner discovered a box of Reagan's original radio scripts written in his own hand on ruled yellow paper from 1975 to 1979.
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It's now well known that Communist agents embedded in high-ranking positions included White House confidant Lauchlin Currie, State Department official Alger Hiss, and Treasury Department official Harry Dexter White. Evans quotes FBI files identifying atom bomb scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer as a secret Communist as early as 1942.

Taking on the anti-Communist mission locked McCarthy in mortal combat against powerful forces: two U.S. presidents, the vast federal bureaucracy, malicious adversaries in Congress, leftwing lobby groups, and the leftwing media who made him their daily target.

McCarthy was concerned only with Communist security risks who influenced U.S. policies. He never targeted Communists in Hollywood or academia.

One of McCarthy's early investigations exposed the gang of Communist agents embedded in our government whose mission it was to change U.S. policy to abandon our wartime ally Chiang Kai-shek and turn China over to the Communists. Owen Lattimore was the point man for articulating the Communist line, and the magazine Amerasia was the communications outlet for an interlocking network of Soviet agents.

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McCarthy's career came to an end after he was censured by the Senate, but 45 out of the 46 charges had to be dismissed as baseless. He was censured only for failing to pay proper deference to the committees that were maliciously bent on destroying him.

Everyone who henceforth writes about Joe McCarthy will have to check his facts with Evans' documented discoveries.

6:41 Nevertheless, you pompous apologist for an unworthy empty-suit-of-a-Governor since the Governor does prepare a budget. Until it is approved by the Legislature is only a recommendation. That may be at the source of your sycophantic confusion.

Thus, since they ARE the Governor's recommendations, IT IS THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET THAT SEEKS TO THROW NEEDY CHILDREN OUT IN THE STREET IN FAVOR OF CSX AND OTHER PORK.

Now go to bed. Jim Greer expects you in at RPOF bright and early tomorrow morning.

Geez! RPOF is turning into the Charlie Crist Public Relations Office.

Those turkeys are cutting $50 million from kids, but giving away $500 million to CSX? What is that?

6:24 - this year's Republican budget clearly shows that Republicans aren't pro-life - they are pro-corporate subsidy and indifferent to the lives of children, the elderly, the handicapped and the former middle class (now known as the "working poor"). They couldn't care less about the problem with illegal aliens - after all, without them who would they have to clean their houses, do their lawnwork or work for their companies?

10:19 - CSX is a railroad - They want to build a commuter rail line in Central Florida. This private company wants to build this system reciving 80% of its funding from state and federal governments, have these governments take on any liability, and then allow CSX to keep all the profit.

Additionally, CSX will have to purchase additional land for these rails and it appears that some members and or their families may possibly unduly benefit from these purchases.

All citizens of Florida should be outraged at this move to cut the funding for our most precious asset - our children. Who will speak for these smallest of citizens?

Who more helpless? Railroad executives?
Who more in need? Railroad executives?
Who more deserving? Big Business?

Remind your legislators - no matter their party affilation that they work for the citizens of FLorida...we do not work for them. These are elected persons who serve at our behest.
Hold them to a higher standard. Hold them accountable to PROTECT AND DEFEND our children.

Let's be clear: The GOVERNOR prepares a proposed budget. The Legislature works on it and then the GOVERNOR signs off on it. So all these boneheaded, short-sighted or downright cruel proposals against children are 100% Charlie Crist's doing.

I am often sickened by the demonstrators I see outside of the abortion clinics. Those who seem so opposed to pro-choice that they are willing to picket in front of the clinics, yet I have never seen one adopt an orphan..
Reminds me of those who will criticize China about Tibet but forget about human rights in much worse oppressed areas.
Whats up with these folk?

1:35 p.m.,

Charlie does have to sign off on the budget; however, he cannot fix it anyway that he wants. His only options are to: 1) sign it; 2) sign it while vetoing certain line items; or, 3) veto the entire thing and have the Legisalture start over. Even if he chooses the 3rd option, he cannot force the legisalture to spend money that it doesn't want to spend.

As such, the budget problem right now falls squarely in the lap of Marco Rubio, Ken Pruitt and their members. They could fix the budget, but they won't.

[Who's your daddy?]

I applaud the GOP broads for their effort.

Charlie sends a Budget Prposal to the Legislature. They work off of that. So who proposed the cuts?? The "People's" Governor!!

He is not only a lousy excuse for a Governor, he can't even take responsibility for what little he actually does.

Almost 700 million to a private company and they still get to use the rails and pay a very small maintenance fee. And to top it off, the taxpayer gets stuck with the liability. This has got to be the biggest sweetheart deal I have seen yet. Good God please help us.

If abortion is murder:

The woman seeking the abortion - if abortion is indeed murder -- is the primary person responsible for the murder and thus should be prosecuted under state laws regarding first degree murder. Abortion is premeditated - beyond any doubt - thus nothing but first degree murder prosecution is in order.

The circumstances of the pregnant woman seeking an abortion would be considered mitigating circumstances during the sentencing phase of a first degree murder trial.

Abortion providers, family, friends, counselors, etc. who support the woman having an abortion should thus be prosecuted under state laws for first degree murder, felony murder, accomplice to murder, and probably other criminal charges.

Otherwise the advocates of the abortion-as-murder position are being inconsistent, illogical and hypocritical.

What kind of People's Governor is Crist? Why isn't he protecting children?

Florida Coalition for Children
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Tallahassee, Florida 32301

www.flchildren.org

April 23, 2008
For Immediate Release

Bean Steps Up for Abused Kids

“Child welfare advocates commend Rep. Aaron Bean (R-Fernandina Beach) for his tremendous leadership in fighting budget cuts to abused children” Florida Coalition for Children President, Mike Cusick said today. “Rep. Bean’s courageous stance restored funding for over 1500 youth currently continuing their education through the Independent Living program. These funds give them an opportunity for a bright future instead of putting them on the streets” Cusick said.

Bean also preserved funding for the Adoption Information Center at daniel which receives over 16,000 calls per year from people interested in adoption and proposed a $14 million increase to support families adopting children from foster care. He also recommended reducing by $3 million proposed cuts to foster care services.

“While unfortunately the Senate did not accept the adoption proposal, Rep. Bean’s courageous stance will allow House budget chief Ray Sansom and his Senate counterpart Lisa Carlton to do the right thing for 3000 abused kids who will need an adoptive family next year. Adding the $14 million to the budget will go a long way toward preventing a disastrous decline in adoptions”, Cusick said.

Melisa Page-Bailie, State President of the Florida Foster/Adoptive Parent Association added her thanks to Bean saying “Rep. Bean is a true friend of Florida’s abused children and the foster and adoptive parents who care for them. The proposed budget cuts could devastate adoptions for these kids. I encourage House and Senate leaders to include these funds in the final budget”.

Jim Adams, President of Family Support Services of North Florida, the private agency in charge of child abuse services for Duval County also commended Bean for his support for frontline services that keep children safe in their own homes and out of foster care. “We, here in Jacksonville, have made a lot of progress over the past two years keeping children out of the system, rebuilding families, keeping children safe and helping them have a positive future. If we lose these frontline services I’m afraid we will slip back to the old days of removing too many children. Rep. Bean is fighting to help stop this from happening and he deserves our thanks”, Adams said.