Mayors Want To Split Florida Into Two States
NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS) ― The City of North Lauderdale is taking a tough stance on home rule, and spearheading an effort to split Florida into two states, CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami reports.
They have passed a resolution, asking that a boundary line to split South Florida from the rest of the state be drawn at the Palm Beach County line. They’re taking it so seriously that they want counties in South Florida, such as Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe to join in supporting them.
This is about money and politics. Here’s an example: If an orange represents the Florida budget, the mayors of these two South Florida cities say we contribute two slices, but only get one slice back.
“This is South Florida’s Boston Tea Party,” said Margate Mayor, Pam Donovan.
Mayor Donovan and North Lauderdale Mayor Jack Brady feel like patriots. They are floating the unusual idea to take South Florida’s beaches, residents, schools and everything else, and create a South Florida State. The reason is because they say South Florida bears an unequal burden–paying more in taxes than this region gets back.
Obviously, this will never happen, but Florida is already two separate states.
There’s Miami:
…and then there’s the rest of it.
(Sadly, I am from the rest of it.)
Tags: central florida, miami, north florida, rednecks, sobe, white trash
May 9, 2008 at 8:36 pm |
Enjoyed your post about the angst out of my part of the state. Sometimes though i think we’re all in “the rest of it.”
May 11, 2008 at 9:25 pm |
Linny.
dearest friend. Allow me to share my point of view. It is an interesting point of view you have. By all means, you can always erase this of course.
Who would qualify to be in “miami”?
You see, one of those people in the pictures, is a nurse. Or a teacher.
Or a mom. Or a college student. Or a disfunctional family like everyone.
You may have pictured pain or loneliness or alcohol or unemployment or lack of culture or narrow mindedness.
But that is everywhere in life. Youll find that in New York. Or La. Or Prague.
I had a friend from paris, France. Daughter of a prominent awarded documentary director.
She made the point that to the rest of the world, to live there was to be in the craddle of culture in europe.
But for a person from the south of france, the south of france is the real “miami”. An everyday parisian is from “the rest of it”.
It doesnt matter where you came from.
Who you are matters. And what you do with your days.
That matters.
What you choose to do with your life, that matters.
If instead of bettering your life you waist it playing pool or being a lazy drunk or giving up a chance to educate yourself, or to make things happen for yourself, thats one choice.
You are a part of your country.
You have an OPORTUNITY, if you avoid that choice to waist your life, that citizens of the thirld world do not have.
Poverty, lack of education, lack of oportunity, exclusion, that’s everywhere.
But in the third world, a society with all the things portrayed in your pics,
lacks the options an american person has.
There is no new york to go to here.
No La to go, to try to make it.
You are who you are because of the values you embrace, regardless of the place you are. Or the place you were born.
Thats all i had to say. Take care.