Continuing lies

August 20, 2014

Now the financial expert that was brought in to save the children’s hospital has resigned.

It looks like the ship is sinking.

It was built on false economics.

After multiple studies they finally found one that said it might work, if.

Then the people behind this built a hospital even bigger than the one that the last study said would be marginal.

The children’s hospital needed to be a part of a general hospital, not a separate entity that would draw money away from our county hospital.

The charges from the county hospital were poorly planned.  To this day no one has explained why the children’s hospital has to pay rent to the county hospital when the construction was financed by a separate bond issue specifically promoted to build the children’s hospital.  The charges for services that the children’s hospital has to pay the county hospital are unreasonable.  If children’s was in fact a separate entity they could have at least managed those expenses to be within their means.

The revenue projections, as optimistic as they were, were based on reimbursement from the state and feral governments.  Planning to have a steady revenue stream from those two was just wrong.

Now both hospitals are in trouble.

The children’s hospital chief executive has resigned.  Is the situation beyond fixing, or would the solutions not be acceptable to the people in power who got us into this mess originally?

We will soon get to see the new county hospital budget for next year.  I won’t be surprised if it too is based on false economics.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Render unto Caesar

July 6, 2014

An El Paso Times editorial the other day “Humanitarian costs should be borne by feds” bothered me on several levels.

Yes, I agree that the feral government has no right to dump a problem that it created onto our local plate.

Obligation

How is housing, feeding, clothing and providing for the safety and welfare of people that it has detained properly deemed to be “humanitarian”?  To me it seems to be an obligation, after all the people are in custody.  Are they supposed to starve to death?

Political

The Times started it’s editorial by blaming the majority party in the house of representatives for failing to do what the Times wants.  They then supported the idea of the President taking action even while admitting that they had no idea what the President might do.

Who created the problem?

Those of you who have followed this blog for a while know that I believe that immigration is a state issue while naturalization is a federal issue as our constitution is currently written.

For various reasons the feral government has usurped the powers of the states to control immigration.  Recently we have seen the state of Arizona being sued by the feds for enacting a law that authorized state and local law enforcement authorities to enforce existing federal laws relating to immigration.

Evidently the feds believe that the states should stay out of the business of enforcing immigration laws.  Who does that leave other than the feds to enforce the laws?

The DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)  program was created by the President two years ago.  Some say that it sent the message that dependent women and children that enter the United States illegally will not be deported but instead our government will attempt to find homes for them.

Private vs. government

Regardless of where you stand on the immigration issue it is a fact that we have women and children in need of help.  I believe that humanitarian help should come from private citizens and organizations, not taxpayer funded governments.  Once someone is detained though it is the responsibility of the detaining government to care for the individual.

I also believe that the feds should not aggravate the problem by letting people in who do not qualify legally.

Should we change our laws and make it easier to qualify legally?  That’s a whole different discussion as far as I am concerned.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

 

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Independence

July 4, 2014

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.  Benjamin Franklin

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.   John Stuart Mill

We deserve better

Brutus

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Public enemies

June 14, 2014

This article in our El Paso Times deserves comment.

According to the article an off duty Border Patrol agent allegedly saw three people allegedly pointing what allegedly looked like an automatic rifle at a building.

I guess we can skip the issue of how three people work together to point a single rifle.  I certainly hope that one of them was not in front of the alleged automatic rifle.

The culprit

County sheriff’s deputies arrived and chased the three.  The alleged automatic rifle turned out to be a paint gun.

Two of the alleged building killers were held  “on suspicion of terrorist threat and evading detention”.

Imagine what they would have been charged with if they had actually squeezed the trigger.

There was a time when you did not get arrested until you had actually committed a crime.

There is a better way to handle youngsters.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Man-made disaster

June 11, 2014

One sign that the economy in the United States is doing better than the economies of some of our neighboring countries is the number of people that emigrate to our country.

Evidently the numbers of these people are overwhelming our facilities.

The response

Our feral government has chosen to ship hundreds of them to El Paso.  By ship I mean fly them to El Paso and  abandon them on our streets with no money or place to stay.

According to the Times none of our local officials were notified before hand.  We now have hundreds of destitute people arriving.  Common decency requires our citizens and our local agencies to help feed and shelter these people.

At what cost?

The feds have not told us.  They simply have injected this man-made disaster into our community.

When bridge crossing times (for those who want to enter the country through a legal port of entry) became too long the feds told us that we would have to pick up the bill for more feral workers.

Now they have decided to drop another one of their problems in our lap.

Immigration

One local wag frequently points out that immigration is a state issue according to our constitution.  Naturalization, according to him, is the federal issue.

Yet the feds have chosen to claim control of our international borders.  A fine mess of it they have made.  When states try to take measures to control immigration, they get sued by the feds.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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