Arnold: Back To The Days Of The Hapsburg Dynasty

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Back To The Days Of The Hapsburg Dynasty
by Jamie Court
 
Today, the Governor announced the proposed elimination of 94 public protection oversight boards such as the Medical Board, Board of Registered Nursing, Accountancy Board, Racial Profiling Panel, the Brown vs. Board of Education Advisory Committee and the Campus Sexual Assault Taskforce. In doing so the governor would be eliminating public process and citizen oversight boards subject to open meetings laws that have been developed over decades. It's a power grab befitting a king who wants to make all the decisions in closed chambers, with the aristocrats at his side and the serfs suffering the consequences.

For example, instead of a committee of doctors and members of the public overseeing medical discipline through open meetings, the Governor would have his political appointee, former Assembly member Fred Aguiar (who took big money from doctors and insurers and voted their way) overseeing the profession. This will make the medical-insurance lobby jump for joy because they have Aguiar's ear, but it will quash prosecution of dangerous doctors who happen to be politically connected. Similarly, hospitals will be given free reign to save money by letting less skilled caregivers take over the jobs of Registered Nurses if the Nursing Board disappears. All of this will turn the clock back on consumer protection and medical safety, and literally threaten patients' lives.

The same threat to life and limb holds true for the elimination of the Boards of Pharmacy, Building Standards, Dental Services, et al... To "absorb" control of professional licensing into a political bureaucracy where industry money talks is to forget the public and its safety. It belies the arrogance of a ruler who thinks that he and his court make up the only process that counts.

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and CA newspapers aren't that great at doing
that yet...

Probably better for the succession.

Not exactly a plethora of honest Republican agents
out here...no, Arnie's just doing what DeLay did
in Texas and Bush has done to the country, except
Arnie's a bisexual screwer.

They want to return to robber baron days, and it's out in the open.The anesticsised masses are going for the actor.It will be a long time before a corporate tax hike , or corps. tax reform , only the people pay taxes in repug world .

definitely taking the gloves off The Big Boy...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez7jan07,1,2450108.column

Education? Chalk Up an F for the Governor
Steve Lopez

January 7, 2005

I keep thinking it's going to be impossible for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to outdo himself, and he keeps reminding me never to underestimate him. For two years, he's been telling us public education in California is one of his top priorities. In his State of the State speech Wednesday, he said schools are a disaster, with 30% of high school students dropping out. This followed a grim Rand Corp. report that gave California schools lousy grades for funding and student achievement.

So what's Big Boy going to do about it? Take an ax to education funding."Devastating," state Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said of the $2.2-billion cut expected when Schwarzenegger's budget is released Monday. With no clear plan for balancing the budget, mountains of new debt, and so many close friends in the anti-tax business community, it was obvious that a day of reckoning was fast approaching for Schwarzenegger. But who would have thought he would drop a hammer on the state's children?

It's too bad they aren't represented by the state Chamber of Commerce.

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Keep telling the truth no matter who the hell doesn't want to hear it! :yourock: