There's the green sky of a threatening storm outside my office window, accompanied by an ominous wind, and, because my neighborhood has the infrastructure of an abandoned ant colony (thanks, Mitch Daniels!), my electricity is already starting to flicker.
So I may disappear here for awhile. Again.
Showing posts with label Mitch Daniels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitch Daniels. Show all posts
Mitch
Am currently listening to my governor, Mitch Daniels, talk about what a great success privatizing the Indiana Toll Road has been.
An economic success, obviously. For the state.
The Hoosiers who actually use the Indiana Toll Road and now have to pay three times as much for the privilege of getting to work in Chicago because there are no jobs in Indiana can go fuck themselves. Obviously.
An economic success, obviously. For the state.
The Hoosiers who actually use the Indiana Toll Road and now have to pay three times as much for the privilege of getting to work in Chicago because there are no jobs in Indiana can go fuck themselves. Obviously.
Two Facts
1. My garbage governor, Mitch Daniels, is still not running for president. Phew.
2. His garbage governance is still being considered a model of Republican leadership to be rolled out in statehouses across this nation. Eek.
By the way, despite Republican's constantly touting the "success" of Daniels' highway privatization scheme, I will just note, as a user of the privatized highway, that I used to be able to drive to Chicago on the Indiana Toll Road for 80 cents. Since it has been privatized a couple years ago, it now costs 3 times that, the quality of the road has significantly diminished, and the toll booths have been automated and all the booth attendants put out of work. SUCCESS!
2. His garbage governance is still being considered a model of Republican leadership to be rolled out in statehouses across this nation. Eek.
By the way, despite Republican's constantly touting the "success" of Daniels' highway privatization scheme, I will just note, as a user of the privatized highway, that I used to be able to drive to Chicago on the Indiana Toll Road for 80 cents. Since it has been privatized a couple years ago, it now costs 3 times that, the quality of the road has significantly diminished, and the toll booths have been automated and all the booth attendants put out of work. SUCCESS!
I Write Letters
Dear Governor Mitch Daniels:
You may take away our healthcare services, you may privatize our public amenities, you may undermine our infrastructure, you may sabotage our school system, you may crumble our sidewalks, but you cannot rob us of the indescribable sweetness of the first ears of ripe Indiana corn each summer.
A cornfield near our house, on yet another stormy day.
I mean, I'm sure you're plotting away to ruin that, too, but IN THE MEANTIME we are going to love our corn on the cob, we are going to eat it raw and boil it and cook it in its own husk on the grill and get its glorious golden tassels stuck between our teeth, and we are going to savor the taste of being a Hoosier and remember that there are still things to love about this state, even as you endeavor to destroy every last one of them.
No Love,
Liss
You may take away our healthcare services, you may privatize our public amenities, you may undermine our infrastructure, you may sabotage our school system, you may crumble our sidewalks, but you cannot rob us of the indescribable sweetness of the first ears of ripe Indiana corn each summer.
A cornfield near our house, on yet another stormy day.
I mean, I'm sure you're plotting away to ruin that, too, but IN THE MEANTIME we are going to love our corn on the cob, we are going to eat it raw and boil it and cook it in its own husk on the grill and get its glorious golden tassels stuck between our teeth, and we are going to savor the taste of being a Hoosier and remember that there are still things to love about this state, even as you endeavor to destroy every last one of them.
No Love,
Liss
Planned Parenthood Takes a Furlough Day in Indiana
*rage*seethe*boil*After my garbage governor, Mitch "The Blade" Daniels signed into law a bill defunding Planned Parenthood in Indiana, the healthcare provider, which serves 85,000 people, including 9,300 Medicaid patients, has stayed open and continued to provide care to Hoosiers with more than $100,000 in donations, but, after state funding ran out Monday, Planned Parenthood Indiana will "will stop treating Medicaid patients and lay off two of its three STD specialists," and will also "close all its clinics on Wednesday and send employees home without pay" to save funds.
"Our 9,300 Medicaid patients, including those who had appointments Tuesday, are going to see their care disrupted," said Betty Cockrum, president of Planned Parenthood of Indiana.ABORTION IS A HEALTH SERVICE, YOU MENDACIOUS GARBAGEBRAIN!
The provider typically receives about $1.3 million a year in Medicaid funds, about 10 percent of its total budget. The new law also strips Planned Parenthood of roughly $150,000 in funding for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, money that paid for three intervention specialists -- health workers who track down the partners of someone who tests positive for an STD and ensure they are tested and treated. Two of those specialists, who were based in Muncie, have been laid off, and a third, in Lafayette, is now employed in a different capacity.
That leaves Planned Parenthood with a single specialist, in Lafayette.
...Sue Swayze, legislative director for Indiana Right to Life, said that with Monday's reduction in services, Planned Parenthood has "made it clear what their priority is."
"They wouldn't stop providing abortions even in the interim to keep the women's health services," she said.
State Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, who authored the defunding language, echoed that criticism in legislative debate in April.As if "taxpayers" and "people who need/want abortions" are mutually exclusive groups.
"If (Planned Parenthood) wants to receive taxpayer money," he said, "they can simply stop practicing abortion."
Honestly, I have never been so furious at the collection of dipfucks and miscreants running this state as I am right now.
[H/T to @PPact.]