Welcome, Governor Scott

So yeah, Rick Scott was sworn in as your Governor.

And he had a lot to say.

"It's hard to hide the fact that the wolf is at the door," Scott said.

Three forces -- taxation, regulation and litigation -- are choking Florida businesses, Scott said, his voice hoarse from a weeklong gala celebrating his inauguration: "Together those three form 'the Axis of Unemployment.'"

He's a wordsmith, this guy.

"It requires magical thinking to imagine government creates prosperity," he said.

"Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what was previously taken from us."

He was ousted from the company he founded after the Columbia hospital chain was forced to pay a $1.7 billion settlement with the federal government for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Because you have to give back what you took, when you get caught, because it was taken away and then given to you but you weren't supposed to have it, but its magical to get it.

"We'll get rid of the agencies...," Scott said.

Alrighty, then.

Nevertheless, even though he promised to shrink government, he promised to create 700,000 new jobs in seven years. That's magic, right there.

Buckle up, folks.

NB you get what you vote for.