Scott Says Florida Costs Must Shrink to Cut Deficit, Create Jobs

Florida’s government must shrink to eliminate a $3.6 billion budget gap and create jobs, Governor Rick Scott said in his first State of the State address.

“Floridians have been encouraged to believe that government could take care of us,” the 58-year-old Republican told the Legislature in Tallahassee yesterday. “But government always takes more than it gives back.”