Organize the South

By now the atrocious vote to privatize Grady is general knowledge. What I find interesting is this story by the AJC about how state legislators think they are the ones getting a raw deal.

Right off the bat the story shows the AJC slant towards privatization. The first sentence reads, "On a day when Grady supporters should have been triumphantly plotting a bright future for the rescued hospital..." Apparently it's objective fact that 1) the day was triumphant, 2) the hospital was "saved," and 3) supporters of the hospital are pro-privatization. In hockey getting 3 goals is s called a hat trick, but at the AJC it's just called journalism.

Still, the funniest part of the story is reading about all the poor, defenseless politicians who are outraged (outraged I tell you!) at being given a demand. "I have no intention of signing an unenforceable document that seeks to bind the state to a specific, annual appropriation," said Gov. Perdue. House Majority leader Jerry Keen hinted the deal puts everything back at square one. These drama kings are reacting to the privatization resolution that requested the hospital get state money. Imagine that? A public hospital serving poor people from across the state getting public money from across the state. Shocking, isn't it?

Hopefully, the community can still kill this plan before it goes forward. It look likes the state wants a private hospital that makes money for campaign donors. That is the free-market system at work. The poor, apparently, are free to die.