Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ryerson Defends Wishard Referendum Editorial: No Name Calling

Matt Gutwein told McANA he doesn't read the bl...

2009-10-05T09:37:21.217-05:00

Matt Gutwein told McANA he doesn't read the blogs either.

Gary? Bob Grand said no one reads the blogs.

2009-10-05T08:53:09.965-05:00

Gary? Bob Grand said no one reads the blogs.

How much public "obligation" can they te...

2009-10-05T08:32:01.359-05:00

How much public "obligation" can they teeter on the roofs of private citizens; eminent devaluation excused as "good policy?"

Ever see a cat chase it's tail? We've got...

2009-10-04T21:02:49.037-05:00

Ever see a cat chase it's tail? We've got governmental layer after layer of commitments, assurances, promises, and mandates- manifested in all manner of entitlements by politicians of both parties. That's how they got re-elected. By us.

When most of your spending is in entitlements, where will you be reducing spending first? Which tail will you be chasing first? Which class will you set loose upon the other?

Inefficiency and corruption are one thing. Are we to also wholly reduce Medicare funding across-the-board before we conduct more exhaustive means-testing? Before we reduce all manner of infrastructure benefits that go to non-citizens? Before we make sure a single parent and a check are actally raising a child with a decent shot at life, instead of another individual headed to the tax rolls?

Is it too much to ask to clean-up our act before the Medicare cuts that come after rooting-out corruption? Doesn't the Medicare class deserve credit for being less apt to pepetually have their hand out in their younger years?

It's no longer as simple as let's just pull out of Afghanistan.

Reality vs. Matt Gutwein Waves Of New Funding Cuts...

2009-10-04T18:30:12.488-05:00

Reality vs. Matt Gutwein
Waves Of New Funding Cuts Imperil US Nursing Homes

"A Medicare rate adjustment that cuts an estimated $16 billion in nursing home funding over the next 10 years was enacted at week's end by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- on top of state-level cuts or flat-funding that already had the industry reeling.

"And Congress is debating slashing billions more in Medicare funding as part of health care reform.

"Add it all up, and the nursing home industry is headed for a crisis, industry officials say."

The best way we can help Matt Gutwein is to vote n...

2009-10-04T07:42:18.715-05:00

The best way we can help Matt Gutwein is to vote no on next month's referendum.

He tells us they will pay for it all by themselves (even though it's really using money they suck out of the Medicare system).

We need to vote down the referendum to ensure he can't renege on that promise. Voting no won't cause the project to slow or affect their sources of revenue. Matt Gutwein has told us so.

VOTE NO!!!

The Chamber supported the 65% increase in the loca...

2009-10-03T21:25:17.044-05:00

The Chamber supported the 65% increase in the local option income tax as well, Paul.

This is in the same ballpark as your teenager comi...

2009-10-03T21:06:55.660-05:00

This is in the same ballpark as your teenager coming to you about a car they want to buy. They have a little "cash flow" problem and need you to co-sign.

We've still got double digit unemployment, trillions in unfunded obligations of existent medical programs, not enough money to adequately staff our local police department, major state-wide education funding issues ahead, and we're asking taxpayers to pay more if the cash flow "solution" doesn't work out? This solution not only looks like it came from the car dealer selling your kid the car, but appears exactly when another local hospital is having to pay back millions in a similar "cash flow", all while the Federal government is temporarily preoccupied with stopping fraudulent billing to justify shoving their own 1000page medical ambitions down our throat (that won't apply to them).

With due respect to genuine "reform" and human "compassion", they are limitless concepts in a world with only so many dollars.

How about limiting the medical care of non-citizens? How about definitive expectations of parental responsibility with a hard time limit on attempted biological reunifications? How about being straight with the taxpayer and getting the bonds that are required when the "revenue flow" is suspect? How about expecting everyone that enters the hospital for care has to pay at least something? How about pricing up front so we start to get to the heart of where the costs come from and who's paying them? How about an endorsement for this project besides a fox guarding the hen house like the Chamber of Commerce? Was there a public clamoring before this was "slipped into the night" by the legistlature? I read the paper a lot. If it was there, I missed it.

There's nothing wrong with better schools, hospitals, highways, public safety, or a zillion items we and our government would like to have. Unfortunately, we're no longer a deep-pocketed, invulnerable economic titan.

Be up front with us and you've got a better chance.

Actually Dorson and the Indianapolis Chamber is so...

2009-10-03T20:33:01.088-05:00

Actually Dorson and the Indianapolis Chamber is so out of touch that the chamber will even support taxes on their own members - they are supporting the increases in the hotel tax and the car rental tax, for example. The Chamber seems to have forgotten its mission.