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| Senator Rick Scott, third from right, speaks with a business roundtable audience in Pensacola 5-31-2022 |
Senator Rick Scott held a business leader roundtable yesterday afternoon in Pensacola. Pete Doyle, owner of Engineered Cooling Services, facilitated the meeting at his business's office.
About 75 local business leaders, nonprofit executives, political candidates, elected officials, and others were invited to the event. Senator Scott walked all around the room and shook every attendee's hand as he arrived in the conference room
After a brief welcome and some remarks by Senator Scott, Mr. Doyle, and former Mayor Ashton Hayward--the group began bouncing ideas and questions off of Senator Scott.
The war in Ukraine, Inflation, the Supply Chain Issues, Immigration, the Budget, DC Dysfunction, and many other hot-button issues were discussed.
Senator Scott took time to solicit questions and ideas, and he even took notes. He seemed genuinely interested in solutions and solving problems. He also handed out copies of his 11-Point Plan to Rescue America and went through his plan with the group.
(Read Senator Rick Scott's 11-Point Plan to Rescue America here)
When I had the opportunity to do so, I asked him about Social Security, and the fact that many Americans have blown through their 401K's during the recession and COVID--and some worry that Social Security won't be there for them once they reach retirment age. I asked him his thoughts on that. "The Senate does not discuss Social Security. A budget number is plugged in every year, same as the year before, but it is not discussed. We know Medicare runs out of money if 4 years, Social Security in 12 years. We know it, but it doesn't get discussed. Once Social Security runs out of money, it will mean an immediate 25% reduction. It is a problem, but nobody is talking about it--I want to talk about it!" he said emphatically.
After the senator fielded several other topics including the opening of the Naval Aviation Museum, The absence of the Federal Workforce (while they are still collecting paychecks), the unsecured southern border, the need for energy independence, and the idea of keeping all large DoD contract award monies
