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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Scott wants schools open, but his grandchildren will be distance learning
The safety of the poor is not his concern - he's only a US senator, after all!
On Tuesdays edition of Varney and Co. on the Fox Business Network, the first-term Republican from Naples said, while parents should have choice, that choice should include distance learning, in addition to five days in brick-and-mortar buildings.
My daughters are going to be more focused on distance learning right now to make sure their children are safe, Scott told Varney. Other parents are going to want to make sure their kids are in the classroom.
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Some [parents] are going to do it because its a way for students to get a subsidized meal, things like that, Scott said.
The Senator was sure to praise states Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, who roiled parents statewide when he ordered schools to fully open when the new school year begins in August.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/350852-distance-learning-rick-scott
ok_cpu
(2,029 posts)Some parents will put their children and families in danger in order to be able to feed them.
And this ok with Scott. Encouraged even.
Squinch
(50,773 posts)These people are so evil there is no wonder you have difficulty processing it. It means you are a person with a soul that is not deformed.
genxlib
(5,506 posts)The two don't have to go together.
It should be an eye opener to middle America that public schools have become a hunger program. But they have undertaken this mission in service to their primary goal since we seem incapable of managing childhood hunger as a laudable goal of its own.
ok_cpu
(2,029 posts)lapucelle
(18,037 posts)if they chose to participate.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Agree that this reveals depraved indifference to life, though I doubt his daughters allowed him any say in their decisions.
spanone
(135,627 posts)bought his way in after defrauding the government in HCA scandal
Columbia/HCA[edit]
In April 1987, Scott made his first attempt to buy the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). While still a partner at Johnson & Swanson, Scott formed the HCA Acquisition Company with two former executives of Republic Health Corporation, Charles Miller and Richard Ragsdale.[29] With financing from Citicorp conditional on acquisition of HCA,[30] the proposed holding company offered $3.85 billion for 80 million shares at $47 each, intending to assume an additional $1.2 billion in debt, for a total $5 billion deal. However, HCA declined the offer, and the bid was withdrawn.[31]
In 1994, Columbia Hospital Corporation merged with HCA, "forming the single largest for-profit health care company in the country." Scott became CEO of Columbia/HCA.[32] According to The New York Times, "[in] less than a decade, Mr. Scott had built a company he founded with two small hospitals in El Paso into the world's largest health care company a $20 billion giant with about 350 hospitals, 550 home health care offices and score of other medical businesses in 38 states."[33]
On March 19, 1997, investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company.[34] Eight days after the initial raid, Scott signed his last SEC report as a hospital executive. Four months later, the board of directors pressured Scott to resign as chairman and CEO.[35] He was succeeded by Thomas F. Frist Jr.[36] Scott was paid $9.88 million in a settlement, and left owning 10 million shares of stock then worth more than $350 million.[37][38][39] The directors had been warned in the company's annual public reports to stockholders that incentives Columbia/HCA offered doctors could run afoul of a federal anti-kickback law passed in order to limit or eliminate instances of conflicts of interest in Medicare and Medicaid.[36]
In late 2002, HCA agreed to pay the United States government $631 million, plus interest, and pay $17.5 million to state Medicaid agencies, in addition to $250 million paid up to that point to resolve outstanding Medicare expense claims.[42] In all, civil lawsuits cost HCA more than $2 billion to settle; at the time, this was the largest fraud settlement in American history.[43][44]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott
NoMoreRepugs
(9,257 posts)spanone
(135,627 posts)sop
(9,943 posts)brick and mortar schools: My own wife, our kids arent school-aged yet, I tell her that theyre at zero risk, I have no problem putting them in, and I think that convinced her. She said she would do it too.
DeSantis wants every parent of school-aged children in Florida to know their kids are at "zero risk."
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)gladly sacrifice his hypothetical school-age children, IF he had any! Is there anyone so stupid as to find that convincing?