AGENT ORNGE

Yes it's a health issue, but a lot different than the one which showed up in Vietnam and other countries first. This posting today concerns Ornge Air Ambulance. The newspaper stories about this scandal are sickening. They are sickening for a multitude of reasons. People are dying in this country due to a lack of financial resources in the health care system. They are dying despite record setting health care expenditures. The economy is in the toilet and our taxes are out of sight. We are paying world class taxes for third world delivery of services. The waste and lack of government oversight into tax money wastage is criminal yet no one goes to jail. All Stephen Harper has to do to sell his "get tough on crime bill" is to tell Canadians that he's going to put politicians and bureaucrats in jail.

On Thursday March 22, 2012 the Waterloo Region Record printed this story "$730M to Ornge poorly watched". It deals with a report by Ontario auditor general Jim McCarter. He outlined massive wastage, expenditure and lack of government oversight into the operations of Ornge. Quoting the Health Minister Deb Matthews's somewhat belated criticism : "We have many challenges in our health-care system right now, and I cannot tell you how disgusted I am when I see people who are entrusted with responsibility in our health-care system to put their own interests ahead of the interests of the people that they are there to serve." This scandal has been unfolding over the last few months. Heads have rolled at Ornge but it's nowhere near enough. Heads need to roll on the government benches until this crap stops. Entrusting our money to politicians is like entrusting catnip to cats and beer to alcoholics. At least the alcoholics eventually pass out and stop drinking. Our politicians never stop spending 24/7.