If you're a business owner, if you're a taxpayer, be very afraid. Mission creep has set in and Metro now thinks its the business of regional government to do something about overseeing health care. You think the Oregon Health Plan is a fiscal black hole which mandated rationed health care and removing choice? Wait until Metro meddles in health care. Who's behind it? Well the same people behind no borders, higher minimum wages, and the "I Hate Walmart" movement, of course, the Service Employees International Union (S.E.I.U.).The Portland Tribune takes a look at the issue with Friday's editorial:
Metro councilors will receive a staff report next month outlining a variety of health care-related options. Some activists and Local 49 of the Service Employees International Union are raising the possibility of Metro taking on a health care role.
One idea is for Metro to appoint a community board that would create a comprehensive health care plan for the region and also be asked to review hospital facility plans.
The union and other groups prodding Metro into the health care arena say they are particularly concerned that hospital systems are spending more on expansion and growing their market share than they are on persistent needs such as mental health services, primary care and emergency care.
Remember Thursday night when I talked (AM 860, 5-8pm) about Portland's future and how it would take cues from San Francisco on giving away (at the taxpayer expense, of course) health care to anyone who lives there and in Chicago where the food police are on the march, I thought we might have a little time. However, it appears the time has come to start yelling...or leaving.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Metro Seeks to be Health Care Police Too
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Victoria, Victoria, Victoria... I have heard you a couple of times on the radio and each time, at some point in your rant, you have contradicted what I take you to believe are your core radiohost values. You also had callers who supported your core radiohost values but didn't support your inconsistant stance, who had made very clear, reasoned points and during their arguments you made very incredulous sounding grunts. Then when you tried to bend their comments to fit the frame you had previously created, they further explained their argument to you to see if they could reason with someone who wasn't really listening to them. It always amazes me when I hear dim sounding people on the radio, so I went to your website; I needed to see what you look like. Well, you look almost exactly what I thought you would and it explains a lot about this show you put on. Now let's be clear. I am not calling you ugly. Looks do shape the role we play in society and I can see why you have decided to take the road MUCH traveled. You are a follower with little room in your head or career path for nuance or reason. I recommnend 1 year in higher level communications classes, 1 year in Iraq fighting with the troops you support, and 1 year in Africa assisting AIDS patients. Then come back and get on the radio and talk to us. You will actually have something of value to talk to us about then. How can you spend and hour talking about kids in a car without the full story? Does that make sense to you? You might as well have a picket fence erected between you and the mic.
Let's just put it this way: I spend more time preparing for my show than you did writing your vapid, unintelligible, devoid-of- fact and detail screed.
Victoria
It looks like stopbeingadonehead needs to listen to his own name!!!!!
Stopbeing, a suggestion, if I may. SInce you claim to pretty much know it all, but can only engage in ad hominum, why not approach KPAM and see if you can get your own radio show?
Maybe me and several others will call you and let the area see what an airhead you probably are.
Of course, since Victoria irritates you so much, you could just change the channel or turn on your TV. Too simple, eh?
Oh well, guess we will all have to wait and see if you have anything actually intelligent to post here.
Victoria, you totally got my point. I'm sure you do spend more time preparing for your shows; it is your JOB. That is exactly what I am talking about. You spent an hour yesterday talking about kids in a hot car. An HOUR. (How much show prep do you need for that?) Talking about how you would want government to get involved in these types of issues; that you would get the government involved in these types of issues if you came upon this situation. Yet, you often invoke the "less government involvement in our lives is best" line that the guys you are imitating on talk radio espouse. All four of your listeners heard it and I did too after tuning in as I flip around the dial. So while I listened, not only did you 1)talk about nothing substantive, 2)talk about something about which you had gathered few facts during your apparent hours of show prep, 3) not even listen to the comment of your caller, but 4) your argument was totally HYPOCRITICAL. You are an adult. You don't need the government to deal with kids in a car issue unless there are obvious safety issues at hand but you mentioned that you have vowed to get the government involved regardless so you won't have to deal with the reaction of human beings. Nice. Let's spend our tax dollars on cops and emergency personnel to facilitate a conversation between ADULTS. I would hope your audience expects more; expect more of yourself for God's sake.
Victoria wants the gov to stop mothers locking their kids in cars?
eh?
Dear Stop,
You couldn't possibly have listened to all three hours of my show last night. I am particularly proud of ALL THE A LIST content I had in the show. So the caller topic may not have been your thing, so what? That show was slammed full of stuff. Sorry you didn't hear what you were supposedly listening to.
That's enough. I'm out. Gotta prep a show for my four listeners.
That's five listeners, now.
bear,
Make that six.
So, I tuned in for a short moment today - and the topic was Nascar?
For those that listen for a minute or so, why bother? There are plenty of talk radio shows on all the time.
As for NASCAR, no, that wasn't the topic. The topic was that little hottie IRL driver, Danica Patrick, that was going to move over to NASCAR but is now just switching teams within the IRL.
It was also about the shortest segment of the evening. You missed two excellent interviews with an Iraqi Kurdish lady and a Lebanese lady.
It'll be a while before I try to listen again - no offense but the combo of Victoria's attitude and shrill voice is like fingernails on the chalkboard.
Besides, you're right lew, there's plenty of stations to hear the same liberal bashing talk.
Let's get back on subject here.
Victoria, Metro and the Oregon Health Plan are very similar to that old cliche about a boat being a hole in the water into which lots of money is dumped.
As for Bonehead -he is coming across as a poster boy for the liberals ---no facts, no solutions, no substance, and certainly no intelligence. Only name calling, innuendo, insults, and rampant vapidity. John Kerry and Kennedrunk would be so proud of him. I would bet that he gets all his rhetoric from Airhead America.
Victoria: In my previous post I was not referring to you in my cliche about the boat. But after rereading it after making the post, I saw that it could be construed that way. I should have put in a colon after your name, not a comma. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding. My other remarks still stand, though.
Interestingly, because I criticized your show host, you assume I am a liberal. Well, if being a fiscally prudent, community oriented, sciences-educated, family man that studies, and believes in, the true tenets of christianity and is not consumed by the BOOB tube, then, yes, I am a liberal. That is why I am trying to bring light to Victoria. Expect more of yourself. She's not stupid, she has just fallen prey to wanting "success" so badly, that she has given up being true to Christ and only uses his name for her gain. She knows. You do too. Go back and read the New Testament and then THINK about what it is saying, not the words. Remember you lit classes? You had to interpret what you read instead of retelling the words you read. That is why we have brains.
Bonehead: It is not at all surprising that you have reverted to bringing up the Bible, Christianity, etc. to try to make a point.
I would bet a days pay that you know absolutely nothing about Victoria's religious beliefs, any more than you know nothing about mine. Her beliefs, or mine, in that line are none of your business.
People who start to use that line of argument are nothing short of pathetic, having no other argument than to attack another's religious base. That is akin to the radical Muslims hating the Jews because that has been the norm for many hundreds of years.
One other thing, Bonehead: Susan B. Anthony once said, "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because it always coincides with their own desires."
You, as well as others who take to spouting the Bible during a debate, should take this to heart. You might have a lot more credibility.
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