Friday Ramblings with Robert
Healthcare, healthcare, healthcare welcome to Friday.
White People Don’t Want Black People to Have Healthcare
Roger Wicker held a townhall in Natchez the other day and WLBT in Jackson had coverage of it and posted this video of it on their site. One problem with that video, they edited out the best part of the original that aired on the previous nights 10 o’clock news. Boy I wish I had a copy of it and I’m sure someone else other than me saw what I am talking about. WLBT interviewed a black gentlemen who said he supported the healthcare bill and also said that the reason all the people at the townhall opposed it was because “White people don’t want black people to have healthcare.” I heard and saw it with my own ears and I know somebody else probably did to and I couldn’t believe they actually allowed that to make the cut for their original broadcast. The comment just illustrates liberal efforts to turn this in to a race issue with some and this guy has apparently been drinking plenty of the kool aid. I wasn’t aware that healthcare had anything to do with race, but apparently I forgot we are still so stigmatized with everything being a race issue when a white person does not support the ideas of a black person that it always comes out as the main excuse.
Giving Credit Where It’s Due
Marshall Ramsey has a really funny editorial cartoon in this morning’s Clarion Ledger addressing town hall meetings and more specifically Travis Childers. It has a puppet show, with a Childers puppett, and 2 people in the audience and one comments ”At least my congressman showed up.” This pretty much sums up how we have felt about Childers and his lack of effort in addressing his constituents in his district. It is baffling to me that someone who is going to face a tough re-election bid would think that the best idea in addressing this issue is to avoid the people who determine his political future. You have to give credit to Gene Taylor, Gregg Harper and even Bennie Thompson for not being afraid to go to the public on this. This is a very public issue and one that could have a serious impact on the way people vote next year.
University Consolidation
Brett talked about it yesterday and I figured I would share an opinion about it as well. Of course it makes no sense to leave open MUW or the Valley, but they aren’t going to consolidate them with nearby universities plain and simple. Here is how I would approach the issue. The IHL should put in strict enrollment quotas across the board for all the 4 year universities. This means that the universities would be required to maintain a certain enrollment in order to remain viable because what’s the point in leaving open a university if the enrollment steadily decreases and it becomes more of a burden to operate. If the quotas are not met the first step would be a probationary period of 3 years maybe to get back to a viable operating level. Failure to meet that quota during the probationary period would result in the school being shut down. I believe it’s a fair system and actually puts some accountability on the individual universities to do a better job as a whole. Then again my far fetched idea is probably just another pipe dream.
