by: RDemocrat
Fri Feb 11, 2011 at 10:56:37 AM EST
The Lieutenant governor of Kentucky, Daniel Mongiardo, recently blasted governor Rick Scott
for ending a drug tracking system. Scott also abolished the law enforcement agency responsible or the program.
We all remember Rick Scott. Healthcare fear monger and liar who used his millions to cover for the health insurers and try and defeat healthcare for millions of Americans with lies, idiocy, and propaganda solely designed to enrich folks like him.
Well, now that the state of Florida has clearly soaked in too much sun and it has cooked their brains Rick Scott is actually governor of that state. Now, he is using his power to enrich the drug companies at the behest of other states who are fighting prescription pill problems and deaths.
Officials in Kentucky, a state hit hard by prescription drug use now are firing back at Scott.
After Kentucky has worked so hard to combat this problem, the Governor of Florida Rick Scott plans on ending the tracking system that helps keep Florida drugs out of Kentucky.
Florida's new governor wants to eliminate a prescription-tracking system that Kentucky authorities believed would help cut the flood of pills coming into the state from Florida.
Scott has already eliminated the enforcement agency that was supposed to stem the tide of these designer drugs.
Scott claims he has transferred the enforcement function to some other state agency which is probably the Florida Highway Patrol. State workers have not received raises for five years and now Scott wants them to contribute 5 per cent of their pension for their retirement. No state agency will seriously entertain the assignment of new functions.
The proposal has set off alarm bells and anger in Kentucky.
You see, for years Kentucky has been combatting the prescription drug problem that has dubbed Oxycontin "Hillbilly Heroin" and have actually had some success in doing so:
Rush Limbaugh provides a testimonial for Hillbilly Heroin
