Rather than focus resources on the state's most pressing needs or helping parents of low-income families who need the most help sending their kids to preschool, this flawed measure creates a subsidy for rich and middle-income families that already send their kids to preschool.

It is premature. We're a vast state with critical needs. If investment is put together in a fragmented way with initiatives by special interest groups, it is going to be haphazard.

The bottom line is really the bottom line [on income statements] in the stock market and earnings just don't look good. The jobs data wasn't terrible but the economy has run into a wall. Basically, there's nothing to churn the market to the upside. And another 800-pound gorilla in the room is Iraq.

The income base of the state as a whole is growing fairly well.

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

In Brevard especially, you have a 65-plus crowd that has that disposable income looking for ways to spend their money.