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BUD'S BLOG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 2023
I'll share with you and our Good Morning Orlando team my take on President Biden's surprise visit to Ukraine during his scheduled trip to Europe. I'll talk about the substantial risk involved in putting an American President into an active war zone where there are no U.S. troops on the ground to provide maximum protection. I cannot recall that ever happening, can you? Kudos to Joe Biden for being willing to accept that risk!
We'll also talk about whether Biden's visit and the additional half billion dollars in aid he promised Ukraine will make a difference in the war, which began one year ago this coming Friday. And, we'll hear Governor DeSantis' take on U.S. involvement in Ukraine's war against the invading Russians, and debate how much help we should provide the courageous Ukrainians and for how long.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-biden-f00af220669457d5ba07127c7e57a27b
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/europe/russia-reaction-biden-ukraine-visit-intl/index.html
Would you pay $360,000 for a new school bus?! Orange County Public School leaders just did. In fact they just greenlighted the purchase of six electric school buses that together cost more than $2 million dollars. They're going to test whether going green with electric buses will save money in the long run. Seems to me the cost of going green costs a lot of green....maybe too much green! What do you think?
https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/mobile-sources/documents/eBus_Pilot_FAQ_20190812.pdf
What are the top 10 highest paying side hustle jobs you might be able to do right now? Newsradio WFLA National Correspondent Erin Real joins us live with the answer!
Governor DeSantis spent his President's Day far from home, talking law and order police unions in crime ridden cities like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Our Governor was trying to recruit disillusioned police officers to pull up stakes and move to Florida. He's offering them $5,000 signing bonuses to make the move, and we'll hear some of his impressive pitch!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-team-fires-back-eric-adams-nyc-values
We know that former President Jimmy Carter's days are numbered now that America's oldest President ever, at age 98, has begun receiving end of life hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia. I want to pay tribute to Jimmy Carter during Tuesday's show. Do I think he was a great President?
No...far from it. Do I think he was a genuinely good man who may have been the most productive President after he left office? Yes I do, and I'll make
the case and see whether you and our Good Morning Orlando team agree.
https://news.yahoo.com/jimmy-carters-lasting-cold-war-221828103.html
https://millercenter.org/president/carter/impact-and-legacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
We'll close our show by going live to Warsaw, Poland to talk with Newsradio WFLA White House Correspondent, Jon Decker, who's traveling with
President Biden. It should be interesting to get Jon's take on how he and the rest of the press corp first learned that the Europe trip would include
a surprise presidential visit to war-torn Ukraine!