...Included in the governor's cuts was $750,000 (click title to entry - thank you) for an expansion of Santa Fe's Kirkpatrick Center.
The center holds classes for law enforcement and corrections officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics. College officials say it is so cramped students must be turned away....
This is the contorted logic of the Republican Party these days. Scott figures if Florida expands the training facility to accommodate more students for police and emergency workers, the public works of any city or state agency will hire them. If the employees can't be hired, the public doesn't have to pay them and they can find other ways of fill a community needs or NOT.
Currently, the Florida State Police have ongoing hiring processes. The attack on public employees by Governor Scott should be met with recall elections.
The inability to be trained for a profession and enter the work force is a direct assault on the USA economic recovery. Basically Governor Scott is undermining Florida's recovery by not empowering new public employees from taking their place to protect tourists in an essential role. Businesses throughout Florida, with an area of 58,560 Square Miles, will have to rely more and more on private emergency and police services if they were counting on public employees to fill that need. With the assault on the public training facilities it is doubtful even private employees will be sufficient in numbers to hire. If the idea is to have private education academies, they probably already exist and if they don’t that is more delay in providing essential services. This is crazy. A Governor should never just stop increasing the education potential of so many for the jobs of police and emergency workers.
