My friend Ron will be  scheduled to have back surgery after he has an MRI. The MRI is important to give the surgeon the information he needs to perform the surgery. Ron is in constant pain and can’t work because of his back problems. The surgeon has assured him he can return to a normal life and work after a brief recovery.

If anyone is keeping score Ron is a successful business man who has done very well for himself and has never been a burden to the taxpayers. He was born in Canada and has been a taxpayer in the top percentile for 35 plus years.

Ron the efficient business man waited three months then phoned the Royal Colombian hospital and asked when he can expect to have his necessary and urgent MRI.

The person who took his call was very honest and courageous and spoke the truth, sometime in 2011 maybe March.

Why?

I have the machines, I can run them 24/7 but I don’t have anyone to run them, they’ve all been laid off.

Why?

Budget.

Ron who is a person of authority and a brilliant engineer wrote to Kevin Falcon Health Minister  and inquired why he can’t get an MRI when he is in constant pain and needs urgent  surgery.

No response.

Ron thinks the only way he can get an MRI is to go to a private pay as you go clinic and pay a thousand dollars (illegal according to the medicare act)  or go to the States and whip out the credit card.

It is nice to be reminded that after paying for health care all your life the liberals have stolen the money for themselves and their friends.

Suffer you bastards

“This ridiculous perverted marketing has cheapened the concept of what is really green,” said Denis Hayes, who was national coordinator of the first Earth Day and is returning to organize this year’s activities in Washington. “It is tragic.”

The UNEP Year Book 2009 examines in six chapters new science and developments, and discusses the cumulative effects expected from degradation of ecosystems, the release of substances harmful to those ecosystems and to human health, the consequences of our changing climate, the continued human and economic loss resulting from disasters and conflicts, and the overexploitation of resources. It calls for an intensified sense of urgency for responsible governance in the face of approaching critical thresholds and tipping points.

I think the life expectancy of humans is going to decline substantially in the 21st century.

Have a nice earth day

sources: THE NEW YOR TIMES & The UNEP Yearbook

liberal caucus

God help us. liberals in government until 2013, I can’t stand it another minute.

They have turned, this province into hell on earth for anyone who isn’t making a six figure income, on a waiting list for “elective” cancer surgery, or trying to find an affordable place to live. And for parents who would like a decent education for their children.

Taxpayers, sick people, pensioners, children, the homeless: disenfranchised, abused, lied to, neglected and suffering in hospital closets.

But there is hope. We may still get a new stadium roof for less than a hundred million

hey hi, big thanks to my subscribers, another beautiful day on the wet coast, I woke up this morning and shuddered to think another holiday is around the corner

I like holidays but every time we have a long weekend the liberals hike taxes another  couple of points- the sky is the limit, the greedy bastards. Total lackey/slaves to Rio Tinto and Embridge. DAILY Atrocities our last square inch of old growth is going to be logged. Do the liberals hate trees that are more than five feet tall? Are we going to stuff the last salmon and put it in the museum of “civilization” And how about the rivers being sold. Excuse me how do you sell a river? BC you are a company town, paid for by the taxpayers and sold to any piece of garbage/godless corporation.

the Falcon (read suicide and traffic jams to get the lowdown on this jerk)  has decided he and his friends can make more money renting our doctors and hospitals to tourists.  If my family needs surgery we have to show up with a passport and credit card. Wow, I don’t even have a passport. Now what do I do? I stepped on a nail and went to the hospital for a tetanus shot and a little alcohol to clean the wound. I had to ask the nurse for a band aid and waited an hour for one. I’ll never forget the look on the nurse’s face- it speaks- the thing wants a bandaid. You would think I had asked her if I could eat her lunch or borrow her tooth brush. I pay for health care, it is automatically deducted from my pay. I don’t have a choice, if I want to live in this shit hole province I have to pay a tax on my pay for healthcare. I don’t know if anyone has been hauled off to health tax jail, but hey quit your job and don’t pay. You’re damned either way.

The absolutely useless lying piece of shit brain dead fucking moron Gordon is justifying the 30 years of debt this province has just incurred for the olympics, by saying tourism is going to take off.

Yea, everybody is just dying to come here and see clear cuts and oil slick on the beaches and dying wildlife.

You lying bag of shit.

I just read the comments by the readers of The Province, in their series OPERATION PHOENIX sponsored by The Province, CKNW 980, and Global B.C. The installment in the series today is in response to a column written by Ethan Baron on Wednesday June 3, 2009. 80% of the respondents agree that addicts from the downtown east side should be locked up and get some kind of care until they are no longer addicts.

I hate to cloud the issue with the facts, but according to the British Columbia Ministry of Health, Guide to the Mental Health Act, April 4, 2005

Section 28: an involuntary commitment can occur when an individual is apparently suffering from a mental disorder and is acting in a manner likely to endanger their own safety or that of another.

“The Guide”  goes on to say… “the term safety here is not restricted to the potential of physical violence to self or others. For example it also covers situations where the person’s safety is endangered because of exposure to extremely cold weather conditions or gross self neglect.”

The V.P.D. can’t commit people, only a doctor can and sometimes it takes two doctors or a judge. That’s what “the Act” says. Don’t take my word for it, look it up yourself.

Just between you and me, if you saw someone laying in an alley covered in scabs with a needle stuck in their arm, would you call that an act of self harm or gross self neglect?

Would you care in the moment if they were there by choice or by mental illness. Would common sense say, maybe this person needs to go to the hospital for more than a couple of hours, and I’m not talking about just the waiting time.

When I worked at Riverview Hospital  coincidentally in 2005, I was told no new patients were being admitted. And the patients in care were being discharged on a daily basis “to other facilities”

 We both know where they went. 

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