happen. it starts with a little sunshine. thank you very much for the insight in transparency in government. [ applause ] iran refuses to cooperate and continues to defy warnings from the united states and international community. saying that it plans to build nuclear power plants inside mountains to protect them from airstrikes. how do we deal with a brash dictator who threatens the entire world? israeli president perez says the resistance starts from within. my interview with him next.
people give us innovative ideas to reduce the medicaid budget. washington would only give us the opportunity to have flexibility like with welfare reform in 1996. mike: how much push-back did you get from bureaucracy. people in the agency saying we don t want everybody to know what we re doing. was there a pushback? of course there was. i know the answer was the question. i want you to give it to us. you re a smart man. you broke the code. not just agency head but local government, and folks with a good old boy system going. you shine a light on. if you think about the sfien a sunshine, open it up. good ideas grow. bath ideas die in sunshine. we ll make mistakes, i agree. but give benefit to the taxpayers and spend the money, that s how we make the improvement in government. mike: site is up and running. people can go to it if they want to take a look. what are you doing to make it more user friendly and navigable? every day we get e-mails. how about this? i had trouble findi
improvements. as i move in the senate presidency next year, one of my number one goals is open up the system for people of florida to make changes. we save money there and then we can spend more on schools, healthcare, more importantly maybe give tax relief. we need to get the economy going. all i care about is job creation. this is one way to do it. mike: one thing that is evident is if the federal government is not interested, 49 states that could be. that could use the same program to bring a transparency. have you had other state legislators, maybe even members of congress say we re interested in looking at this? they sure have. that is the direction. we want to be the state of innovation and sunshine. we see the states like texas take a look at it. even new york state with their budget problems, new jersey, looking at this. how do we do it better and how do we contrast in washington, d.c. from rhetoric to the action we are taking in florida? mike: we re almost out of time. c