As some of you know I live in the beautiful state of Florida. If you are a person that loves the water and hates the snow this is a place for you. I love the water and as a kid growing up in Wisconsin I used to love snow, as an old man not as much so we packed up everything and moved. I have been too many beautiful places in this country from Acadia to Yellowstone but my favorite sight is from the top of the Sanibel Causeway bridge looking out over San Carlos Bay toward Pine Island Sound. I just find it an amazing sight that I never get tired of. Is that sight going to last forever? If you research climate change the future of states like Florida may be in for some dark days that it may not be able to recover from.
Climate change is going to be a serious problem for the whole world but Florida will be a disaster as will other coastal communities. More powerful storms will just bring more damage. Yes, we can rebuild but if insurance companies won’t insure you, can you afford to rebuild? Of the top ten states for the most expensive insurance rates for home owners four are Gulf Coast States. Every year our HOA fees go up and one of the reasons is because of insurance rates going up yearly. Remember in a capitalistic system what drives the system is profit. Insurance Companies are not going to go broke because they want to be nice guys. No profit, no insurance company. That is how capitalism works. As our storms get stronger and as our storms get more frequent the more insurance is going to cost. If people are not concerned of climate change they are either ignorant or power hungry and the power hungry people will take advantage of the ignorant to maintain their power. Hate to say this but that makes it seem like I am talking about DeSantis.
DeSantis has now proposes 270 million dollars to help fortify our roads, bridges and communities for rising water levels. That is great but he is still saying the climate change is left-wing stuff. Gee he proposes 270 million dollars to fight the rising seas and then calls climate change left-wing stuff. What does he think is driving the melting ice caps and that are causing the sea levels to rise? I know it must be those same lasers that are causing the California wildfires that Greene has talked about. Climate change is not a left-winged thing or a right wings thing, it is a science thing. I don’t even know what left and right is anymore. Things that save people’s lives are left and things that kill people are right? We have to start voting for smarter people. As we dummy down the country we are dummying down our politician’s too.
DeSantis has now proposing a 200 person militia that will answer only to the State of Florida which means it will answer to him. Even though we already have the National Guard his distrust of the Federal Government is what drives him to think we need something different. Plus, he does love to grandstand. What will a 200 man Florida Militia do? They could never defend us from an invasion. They could respond to national disasters but we already have a National Guard for that and they are much better equipped to help especially when you are integrating the help with federal agencies like the Coast Guard. The governor has the ability to call up the National Guard for many reasons including the maintaining of peace and riot control. The problem has to be shared control and he just wants to intimidate people. DeSantis does not seem to be the type of man that wants to share control with anyone and that can be scary at times. I wonder if these guys are going to run around in Black Uniforms to be more intimidating. I could see him calling up his little militia as riot control during a peaceful rally to just intimidate people. Now a person’s Civil Rights are granted by Federal Law not State law. What happens if his little group violates a person’s civil rights? Can our Governor be arrested? Can our Governor be sued? It is going to happen. They are going to violate people’s civil rights.
Some of our politicians are killing people for power. Is DeSantis is one of those politicians? He has done everything in his power to make it harder for us to fight this pandemic. It appears that he has hid and suppressed numbers in dealing with the pandemic. Masks have proven to save lives yet he doesn’t ever encourage for people to voluntarily wear them. Unvaccinated people are dying at a much, much, much higher rate than the people that are vaccinated. He doesn’t encourage people to vaccinate. Power. Our problem is the power is to suppress people.
I have stated many times on twitter the real heroes save
lives. Real heroes vaccinate and mask up. Real heroes protect our neighbors.
Being a hero is not a left or right thing. It is being a smart thing. It is a
caring thing. Let’s add that real heroes care about the environment and all the
creatures around us. Trump has never been a hero and DeSantis following in the
footsteps of that coward is no hero either.
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