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Florida

Primary Date: 9/5/2006

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State Labor Laws

  • Current Minimum Wage: $6.40
  • Indexed to Inflation: No
  • Minimum Wage Notes:
  • Unfortunately, Florida is a "right to work" state.

State Government

Congressional Delegation

  • Senators:
  • House Reps:
    • : Jeff Miller (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Jeff Miller is running for re-election.
    • : Allen Boyd (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Allen Boyd is running for re-election.
    • : Corrine Brown (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Corrine Brown is running for re-election.
    • : Ander Crenshaw (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Ander Crenshaw is running for re-election.
    • : Ginny Brown-Waite (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Ginny Brown-Waite is running for re-election.
    • : Cliff Stearns (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Cliff Stearns is running for re-election.
    • : John Mica (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • John Mica is running for re-election.
    • : Ric Keller (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Ric Keller is running for re-election.
    • : Gus Bilirakis (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Gus Bilirakis is .
    • : C. W. Young (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • C. W. Young is running for re-election.
    • : Kathy Castor (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Kathy Castor is running for other office.
    • : Adam Putnam (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Adam Putnam is running for re-election.
    • : Vern Buchanan (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Vern Buchanan is running for other office.
    • : Connie Mack (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Connie Mack is running for re-election.
    • : Dave Weldon (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Dave Weldon is running for re-election.
    • : Tim Mahoney (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Tim Mahoney is running for re-election.
    • : Kendrick Meek (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Kendrick Meek is running for re-election.
    • : Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is running for re-election.
    • : Robert Wexler (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Robert Wexler is running for re-election.
    • : Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Debbie Wasserman Schultz is .
    • : Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Lincoln Diaz-Balart is running for re-election.
    • : Ron Klein (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Ron Klein is running for re-election.
    • : Alcee Hastings (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Alcee Hastings is running for re-election.
    • : Tom Feeney (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Tom Feeney is running for re-election.
    • : Mario Diaz-Balart (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Mario Diaz-Balart is running for re-election.
    • : Mel Martinez (R)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Mel Martinez is seat is not up until 2010.
    • : Bill Nelson (D)
      • Lifetime COPE Score:
      • Bill Nelson is seat is not up until 2012.

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Comment by joe lynch
2006-11-02 18:48:26

If Democrats take Congress, Bush will get his amnesty for illegal aliens

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Before you vote for a Democrat for the House or Senate, recall that a Republican House of Representatives prevented Hagel-Martinez amnesty legislation from being signed into law. Amnesty for over 66 million illegal aliens would have been a disaster for an already overpopulated country. If you think our roads, schools, hospitals, courts and jails are jammed today, just wait a few years. The article that follows should be required reading for every voter.
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Cities at the tipping point - overpopulation destroying major U.S. cities.

Ref: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html
Ref: http://www.carryingcapacity.org/

A common fallacy is to equate existing and seemingly open or “unused” spaces with the kind of resources and ecologically productive land needed to support human life under modern conditions. In fact, the criterion for determining whether a region is overpopulated is not land area, but carrying capacity.

Carrying capacity refers to the number of individuals who can be supported in a given area within natural resource limits, and without degrading the natural social, cultural and economic environment for present and future generations. The carrying capacity for any given area is not fixed. It can be altered by improved technology, but mostly it is changed for the worse by pressures which accompany a population increase. As the environment is degraded, carrying capacity actually shrinks, leaving the environment no longer able to support even the number of people who could formerly have lived in the area on a sustainable basis. No population can live beyond the environment’s carrying capacity for very long.

The average American’s “ecological footprint” (the demands an individual endowed with average amounts of resources, i.e., land, water, food, fiber, waste assimilation and disposal, etc. puts on the environment) is about 12 acres, an area far greater than that taken up by one’s residence and place of school or work.

The CIA World Factbook lists the total area of the United States (includes the 50 states and District of Columbia) as 9,631,420 sq km—converted to acres, the total area of the United States is 2,379,923,882 acres. Dividing total area by the 12 acre ecological footprint per person yields a sustainable population of 198,326,990. Even if we lower the ecological footprint to 10 acres per person the calculation will yield a population of 237,992,388 far lower than our current population of 300 million. By this measure, the United States is overpopulated by well over 60 million people.

While you can quibble with the method used, it is useful as a back of the envelope calculation. Immigration is largely responsible for our population growth. Immigrants don’t travel by covered wagon anymore, the majority congregate in our cities. The demands on our cities are overwhelming. Anyone who lives in a large city can see the results of overpopulation on their roads, schools, hospitals, courts and jails. While many reasons are given for electrical outages and the high price of oil, the root cause (usually not stated) is simply overpopulation. The amount of energy we require is largely a function of population. Just as two people require more water than one person so it is with energy in a modern society.

Overpopulation of the United States is degrading the natural social, cultural and economic environment for present and future generations. Unless we take action now, we will follow the same destructive path as past civilizations.

Please pass along.

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