Stats Reveal DeSantis' Pitiful FL Record & Child Labor Is Now Legal In Arkansas

Ron DeSantis has been very lucky that the media is only talking about his culture wars and not about his actual record in Florida. The state ranks among the last in the country in nearly every metric that matters to voters. Also, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a new bill that will undo decades of child labor protections in the state – all so that corporations can exploit a cheap, renewable source of labor to make a profit. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Ron DeSantis has been very lucky that the media's only talking about his ridiculous culture wars and not about his actual record in Florida, which is disgusting. The state ranks among the last in the country in nearly every metric that matters to voters. I have Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins with me to talk about what's happening. You know, interesting thing, I think we started doing stories about what was happening in Florida and people said, well, you got a national show. Why are you worrying about Florida? We did stories on his ridiculous effort to do away with the Democratic Party. You remember that? And how he was gonna make bloggers register and be fined if they don't register. And then the latest is to do away with the First Amendment and try to change New York Times versus Sullivan. So we did all those stories to let the public know that if he's in charge as president, you better be ready for something. And it ain't gonna be pretty. Right?

No. I mean, what has happened to the state of Florida is so much worse than what most people realize because it's not just the culture war stuff, I know that's what grabs the headlines, but across the state, people are suffering economically. We're suffering educationally. We're suffering as consumers. Across the board, this state has become, you know, by almost every metric, one of the worst in the country. We're 49th in teacher pay. We are the worst in the country, by the way, of knowledge retention from students from fourth to eighth grade. So our children in Florida statistically get dumber as they move through school compared to every other state in the country.

Okay. Just so there is, we're talking objective numbers here.

Yes.

School, we're last, at the bottom where it comes to educating our kids. Healthcare, at the bottom in taking care of our healthcare in Florida. Elder care, at the bottom. I'm talking about like number 47 through 50 kind of bad. Salaries, the lowest in the nation. Unemployment benefits are the stingiest in the nation. Although taxpayers in Florida, the privileged pay, the privileged pay what? 1 to 2% taxes. Everybody else pays 12% taxes. And you just look, all you gotta do is look at this and say, okay, well this is his legacy. This is, take all this stuff, put it up here on his head and that's what you got. This is the guy that's running for president of the United States, and all you have to do is look at what he did to Florida. Disgusting record in Florida. The latest takes away people's right to sue when they've been injured, malpractice, when their home gets blown away in a hurricane. All of these rights have been trampled on by this man who wants to be president of the United States.

And it gets so much worse too, because in terms of life expectancy, life expectancy in Florida continues to fall. We're among the top in the country in cancer death, diabetes, drug overdoses, teen birth rates, infant mortality. And I was having to look up statistics the other day, we are among one of the worst states in the country with the rise in violent crime. So what we see in states like New York is a massive rise in property crime. But down here in Florida, property crime is declining, but violent crime is rising. So yes, in New York, you're more likely to get mugged, but in Florida you're more likely to get killed or beaten half to death because violent crime is becoming so rampant throughout the state.

Yeah. Okay. So let's talk about the media's handling on this. The media's handling on this is like a yawn. Okay. The only thing they know how to do.