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ancianita

(36,014 posts)
18. I gotta say, monkeyman, the way FL's elections go, the 16 billionaires and assorted minigarchs here
Sat Jul 31, 2021, 09:00 AM
Jul 2021

can run it their way no matter who's in office. They are entrenched, I tell you.

Get rid of the former head of the national chamber of commerce, Vern Buchanan of Sarasota; get rid of Rubio, Gaetz and its statehouse Republicans, and Florida will still be economically unregulated.

Even then, this state's GDP doesn't depend on honest political policies. It's GDP is still based on the top income sectors of 1. tourism, 2. agriculture, 3. "international" trade (let me guess, laundering through land investments? laundering of gun and drug trafficking?) 4. aerospace (NASA?) and 5. Life Sciences (university scientific research). People here have even given up on honest dissent or talk of ridding FL of its longstanding endemic corruption.

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