Holy hell. Politico is reporting that @SenRickScott, back when he was governor, DELIBERATELY BUILT FLORIDA’S UNEMPLOYMENT SYSTEM TO FAIL.
“It was about making it harder for people to get benefits so the unemployment numbers were low to give the gov. something to brag about.”
“It was about making it harder for people to get benefits so the unemployment numbers were low to give the gov. something to brag about.”
Then, after deliberately building a system that didn’t work so as to keep the unemployment numbers low, @SenRickScott—and @GovRonDeSantis after him, so he’s complicit here—ignored years of audits warning of major system problems:
Now hundreds of thousands of Floridians can’t get jobless benefits—at a time of record-high unemployment, amid a global pandemic—because the system is working precisely as designed.
It’s not every day I find myself agreeing with state Republican Party chairmen, but Florida GOP Party Chair Joe Gruters has it right: “Someone should go to jail over that.”
