Reply #3: Appears that Butterworth, a Democrat, agrees privatizing DCF is best..

[madfloridian]

with things being handled from a local level so the government can be small enough to fit in a bathtub....well, the bathtub part was from Grover Norquist.

Thing is that Butterworth seems unaware of the new tax laws being pushed that would cut taxes and therefore services at a local level.

Appears that even our Democrats want Florida to privatize its government.

It has really been working so very well. :sarcasm:

The system was transformed a decade ago, but not necessarily fixed.

It was supposed to be a new era.

Florida began handing over its child welfare duties to private agencies a decade ago, vowing children would be safer.

The new system would end child abuse disasters that plagued the government-run system for years, including the disappearance of 5-year-old Rilya Wilson of Miami and the death of 6-year-old Kayla McKean in Central Florida.

But when a missing 2-year-old Florida foster child was found June 14 at a Wisconsin house of horrors -- where a woman was buried in the back yard and a scalded 11-year-old boy hid in a closet -- glaring fault lines were exposed in the state's privatized child welfare system.

Butterworth says the system works, but people failed. He says privatizing is best, but needs oversight.

Private care still works best, he said, but vital lessons must be learned.

"You can't run this type of agency out of Tallahassee," said Butterworth, a former state attorney general facing his toughest case since his appointment six months ago. "I think it should be at the local level, but the state still has an obligation for oversight."

Then have Tallahassee stop the draconian tax-cutting, Bob. If you want it at local level, it needs to be funded, even if it is privatized...oversight costs money.

And maybe Jeb emptied too many of those government buildings in Tally to have enough government left for oversight. From his inaugural address:

"There would be no
greater tribute to our maturity as a society than if we can make these buildings around us empty of workers; silent monuments to the time when government played a larger role than it deserved or could adequately fill.”

We don't know yet how much of his goal he achieved.