"It's a shit sandwich: Privately, Republicans admit the $77.9 million [unemployment] system that is now failing Florida workers is doing exactly what @SenRickScott designed it to do — lower the state’s reported number of jobless claims..." #BecauseFlorida https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its-a-sh-sandwich-republicans-rage-as-florida-becomes-a-nightmare-for-trump-1271172

"It’s a shit sandwich & it was designed that way by Scott,” said @GovRonDeSantis advisor. "It wasn’t about saving money. It was about making it harder for people to get benefits or keep benefits so that unemployment numbers were low to give the governor something to brag about."

Chairman of @FloridaGOP @JoeGruters was more succinct: "$77 million? Someone should go to jail over that."

SPOILER ALERT: That "someone" is @SenRickScott and all your Republican colleagues in the Florida legislature. Where's Michael Flynn to lead us in a "Lock them up!" chant?

"This is horrible for people. I don’t want to minimize that," one @GovRonDeSantis adviser told @POLITICO. "But if we have to look past the crisis, it’s bad for the president and it’s bad for the governor." https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its-a-sh-sandwich-republicans-rage-as-florida-becomes-a-nightmare-for-trump-1271172

"If unemployment continues to go up, and so many stay unemployed, it’s a nightmare for the president in Florida,” @RepCharlieCrist said. "I should know. When I was governor running for the Senate in the Great Recession — and there was nothing great about it — it was a nightmare."

The Trump, DeSantis, Scott GOP model of government: privatize, subsidize & brutalize — with no transparency, oversight or accountability. Cut taxes for rich, take money from poor and give it to the rich for products & services that don't work (see: unemployment website, SunPass)

Florida has one of the lowest unemployment payment rates in the country — "a measly maximum of $275 per week, for anywhere between 12 to 23 weeks" — so a lot of our tax money will go to other states unless @GovRonDeSantis raises it https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article241403236.html

But the ultimate goal of the Republicans who run Florida is to pay no unemployment to anyone. That's why the website we spent $77.9 million in tax money on doesn't work.

Because if people can't file for unemployment, the unemployment rate can't go up.

It's not about "fiscal responsibility" or "conservatism" or "small government." It's simply evil for profit. Trickle UP economics. Socialism for the rich. They're Reverse Robin Hoods: they steal from the poor to give to the rich. Follow the money.