If you look at the debt that Florida has accumulated over its whole tenure as a state from the 1840s until I became governor and you added it all up, We've retired over 50% of the state's historical debt just in the seven years that I've been governor. And I tell people, and we may do this in New York City, in Times Square, I don't know if they have it anymore, but they used to have the national debt clock. (05:41–05:48)
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Asserts that Florida has retired over 50% of its historical debt during his governorship.
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