Florida! It's Still For Sale

Just when you think things in Florida can't get any quirkier, someone comes along to prove you wrong. Our "Florida! It's What's For Sale" blog couldn't have even come close to dreaming this one.

Idea man, state Rep. Irving "Irv" Slosberg, has come up with some great ideas to generate revenue for the citizens of Florida. These are the kind of ideas that you wish you had thought of, or maybe you did but kept those ideas to yourself.

Florida's public schools are expensive to operate and of course everyone knows that the private sector can do it faster, better and cheaper. So it's only logical that a legislator would create a bill to sell advertising on the sides of school buses and sell the naming rights to school cafeterias. You're probably kicking yourself right now because you didn't think of this one-two combo first.

Naturally, advertising alcohol, tobacco and other inappropriate products would not be permitted on buses or school cafeterias, but even those little inconveniences leave the door open to a world of almost unlimited revenue possibilities. Schools would no longer be burdens to us. Seeing a named cafeteria or looking at a fully advertised school bus would make you smile because you'd know you weren't footing the whole bill for education anymore. 

Ideas like this show the care and painstaking time our legislators put into considering and weighing the importance of our future generations. Knowing that they are just a means to attract a dollar and their education is just the cost of goods sold to a gross margin can only make them feel important and cared about.  It's almost as if they have won the lottery.

One day, though, the younger generation will leave the realm of fully funded, advertised public schools. Surprisingly, and no matter how hard you try to stop it, they will be the decision makers. What do you think they will decide for you?

Maybe geriatric medical devices paid for with new LED advertising? QR codes stuck on things and places you don't want to imagine? Nano chips in hearing aids and intraocular lens implants to help influence your decisions?

In life, there is always a reckoning, that day when the student becomes the master. Is this really how we want to be remembered by the future?

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