* I am not going to just write about front page headlines anymore, it's all over the paper now.
For Health Insurers' Lobbyist, Good Will Is Being Put to Test
This is really about a woman named Karen Ignagni, who has been working for the Health Care lobby for as long as I've been insured. The thing that people refuse to remember about the Health Care industry is that they are privately held companies that are in business, in service and all ways otherwise, INTO MONEY.
They are not interested in other things, they are not interested in public service, they are interested in a status quo if $$ is flowing, and into changing things if $$ is not flowing. Obama hasn't been shy to point out the record profits, as this article points out, that the big 10 in Health Care have shown this year.
The cute thing about the debate on Health Care is that the issues are being skirted by the major players, starting with Pelosi. It was her decision, and her ultimate wisdom, to call the Health Care Industry, "villians", which is a stroke of genius. It allows the Right Wing and the Idiotic Blue Dogs to make that the argument, and gives Ignagni the ability to say something like, "Attacking our community will not help get anyone covered," which is the adult way of saying, "be quiet, or I'll take my ball and go home."
People, they do not care about anyone. The Health Industry doesn't care at all about us, they wouldn't exist if they did, and we cannot trust people like Ignagni to make good decisions, or decisions that will benefit the people. Then again, when Pelosi continues to take her foot in shove it in her stupid mouth, I wonder if she cares either. Cuz, as childish as Ignagni's comment is, it's right. Make the industry a villain, and they will find a way to win.
Federal Judges Order California Prisons to Reduce Inmate Population by a Quarter
As you can read, California has to reduce their population by 27% over the next 2 years. I really shudder to think about the type of person in those prisons - and I don't mean I fear their release.
I mean I feel uneasy thinking about some of them in prison for recreational drug possession, those stupid stories you hear about a kid who had a bag of pot in a backpack and he was sentenced to 19 years in prison because he was within 47 square miles of a school for underprivileged children.
I think about that state, and how delinquent it is, and how they surely couldn't have possibly put the right people in prison. Trimming the "safest" 27% off of their prison rosters will, at the very least, improve the quality of life for nearly 40,000 people.
This is probably the most liberal, bleeding-hearted opinion I can have, but its how I feel. I love how the great new hope for California is Jerry Browne, but he is the kind of guy who, like the Right and Left in California, refuses to admit there is a $26B deficit in the state, and seems to scream every time something is cut, altered, changed or shifted in order to close that budget gap. The judges, acting primarily in the name of safety of inmates (1 prisoner in CA dies from "unnecessary" causes per week...) But it is going to have an unintended (wink wink) financial effect that hopefully will start getting things moving in the right direction.
Arnold's solution, as the article says, is to build more prisons with money that doesn't exist. The entire Gov't of that state should have a "moron face-off" against the Gov't of the state of NY, and the winner gets to run the Republican National Committee. The Loser is the new Gov. of Alaska.
Gunman Kills 3 and Wounds 12 at a Gym Near Pittsburgh
I didn't link this because you can read about it anywhere, see it on TV, etc. I just wanted to write about this one because if I ever say anything in this blog that makes you think I am going to do anything outlandish, crazy, insane, deadly and/or otherwise wacky, call me on it and call the cops. Apparently this dude blogged about this, the text is out there to read, and nobody, NOBODY, engages in this type of online blabbering without knowing there is an audience. Someone in PA is having trouble sleeping tonight knowing that the writing was almost literally on the wall, and they knew it.
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