Florida Office of Insurance Regulation "Public Symposium" at Gaylord Resort: ...

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   I attended the October 21, 2010 Public Symposium presented by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.  It was not clear whether "public" meant that the gathering was not intended merely to be private, or that it was actually intended to be open to the "public".  If this Public Symposium was intended to be open to the public, it was a pathetic way of attempting to achieve that goal.

   This Public Symposium was held at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida, a wonderful place to indulge fantasies of fortune.  Most members of the public have only those, fantasies, and not fortunes that would enable them to become Resort guests.

   One example will be enough:  It cost each driver $12.00 to park her or his car at the Public Symposium at the Gaylord Palms Resort.

   This post is not intended as an observation about some public officials.  It is intended as an observation about all public officials at this time.  More so than at any previous time, it seems that inexperienced views of who is the "public" and of what constitutes the "public's" business, mark the conduct of public offices and the behavior exhibited by officials whose only reason for existence is to serve the public's interests.

   This is not democracy.  This is decadence.

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