Comments of the Week: High-speed rail, Scott-Sink job creation, burning the Quran, Scott’s depositions and state pregnancy clinics

Every Friday here at The Florida Independent, we pick out the best comments we received during the previous week, whether they came from commenters here on our site, or via Facebook and Twitter. Want to be included next week? Assail us with your rapier wit!

In response to “Foreign companies enter the race to build Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail”:

Americans don’t want to admit how much of their income is wasted by the automobile kingdom: car purchase, repair, insurance, taxes, road repair- All monies which would be better spent on education, neighborhood improvements and health care. —Rawson Bruce07

In response to “Scott and Sink offer contrasting proposals for job creation”:

Scott plans to make substantial cuts to state spending, and that is considered part of his job creation plan? Since he also plans to cut funding to local governments, that will only have the effect of forcing property and sales taxes up to make up he shortfall. Thanks, Rick — for nothing. —Andy Richardson

In response to “Gainesville church to protest city’s gay mayor and hold ‘Burn a Koran Day’”:

Why is the media giving 50 crackpots so much coverage. They are no better than homegrown dissidents ready to kill for some deity. —Darcos

In response to “Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder latest to condemn planned 9/11 Quran burning”:

I agree that people’s liberty of speech should be protected – but liberty has its limitations when it endangers or threats others and fosters a climate of hate. I also find it amusing, burning a book you haven’t read and don’t know a whole lot about. If the problem was the Quran, then all Muslims would be terrorists and all Christians would be terrorists as well if we blame the Bible for atrocities committed in its name. “They” – that can be a dangerous word… —Clovis

In response to “Rick Scott’s aversion to depositions”:

Reminds you of the Teflon Don….. —Truth?

In response to “Advertising agency manages 17 state-funded pregnancy clinics”:

More examples of how insiders get the jobs whether qualified or not. —Concernedcitizen