Month: October 2018

Congress! Do your job!

[ED: this is an alternate to my previous submission on the same subject]
The most disheartening aspect of the present sad situation is the number of people who still support Donald Trump’s presidency. A few hotheads, here and there, are to be expected, but thousands? Congress, for heavens sake, do your job!

Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

conflict did

Can anyone tell me why educated, thinking adults, in view of all that’s happened the last three years or so, continue to register and vote with the Republican Party? Some things stand out among the hundreds: the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, child separation at the border, the tax giveaway disguised as reform, repeated references to having “won the election”, and so on, and so on, and so on.

Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com

Prop 8

Tell the people at the SEIU about an easier way to cut into the profits of the dialysis “profiteers”. It is quite simple, really. Just get some fat cats to put up a few million dollars of seed money, buy some dialyzer machines (I’m not sure how many thousand dollars each one costs), recruit some really good nurses and technicians by paying them half again as much as they are getting now, rent some space in the area where there are already dialysis centers run by the “profiteering” company. When all this is set up, send a letter to every nephrologist within 50 miles or so notifying them of your lower prices and better staff. Be sure to get your relations with Medicare, Medicaid, the insurance industry, and the Veterans Administration established ahead of time. Price competition is one of the quickest ways to build market share.

Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

Let down

The Brett Kavanaugh nomination, itself, demonstrated a careless disregard for the quality of justices we select for our Supreme Court. Obviously, only those with the right politics need apply. The confirmation process, likewise, is so skewed toward rubber-stamping that multiple sources of relevant information are either ignored or purposefully prevented the opportunity to testify. Right up to the end, we held out the vague hope that enough Senate Republicans would understand that this is exactly the kind of person we Do Not Want on the Supreme Court of the United States, and then vote accordingly. Sadly, we must be prepared for more instances where what matters most to Republicans is not what fits the country’s needs most, but how they can maintain political control, which is what they just did to what was once a highly respected institution, but is now a five- to-four boys club for what ever mischief Trump might cook up.

Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>