KLOWARD-PIVINS WORKS FOR YOU!!!...How to bankrupt Healthcare with unions

[Your Uncle Sam]

Jackson Health System to lay off 21 from nurses union... (S.E.I.U)

Facing a deficit of over $200 million this fiscal year,

Jackson Health System Chief Executive Eneida Roldan

says she needs to cut 20 to 25 percent of the budget

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MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
BY JOHN DORSCHNER

In a move that was far less than rumors, Jackson Health System told the nurses union Tuesday morning that 21 of its members were being laid off -- one doctor in radiology and 20 assistant nurse managers.

``There is no good number that directly affects patient care,'' said Martha Baker, president of Local 1991 of the Service Employees International Union, (S.E.I.U.), but she acknowledged that it was far smaller than the 1,400 to 2,500 job losses that many employees have heard over the past week.

Chief Executive Eneida Roldan has scheduled a news conference at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday to discuss Jackson Health System's financial situation. Her financial people expect the public hospital system to lose more than $200 million this year unless dramatic cuts are made.

``Twenty-one is not going to produce a drop in the bucket'' to stem the losses that Jackson is facing, said Baker, once again urging that the system find more efficient ways to handle its billing system. She said Jackson management gave no indications about future job cuts in the weeks ahead.

Joe Reed, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said that there have been ``no layoffs yet'' for its Jackson employees, which number about 5,000.

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"Never waste a good crisis" - Rom Emanuel (....and, where no crisis exists, create one!!....then, call a strike.)\

OVERWHELM THAT CAPITALIST SYSTEM, BABY!

EPA hears from public on water standards

EPA seeking strictest smog limits

EPA seeking strictest smog limits

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the nation's strictest-ever smog limits Thursday morning, a move that could put large parts of the country in violation of federal air-quality regulations.

The EPA proposed allowing a ground-level ozone concentration of between 60 and 70 parts per billion, down from the 75-ppb standard adopted under President George W. Bush in 2008.

That means cracking down even further on the emissions from power plants, factories, landfills and motor vehicles.

New EPA water rules worth every penny

New EPA water rules worth every penny

Few things are more deadly to a healthy watery ecosystem than algae, much of which comes from nutrients in fertilizers and pollutants that wash from the land into waterways during rainstorms.

Remember when Lake Apopka, once a center for bass fishing in Central Florida, was essentially declared dead, devoid of qualities that could support living organisms? The culprit was land pollution, most notably phosphorus and nitrogen.

Lake Apopka is once again reasonably healthy, thanks to intense cleanup efforts and improved water-quality standards. Now the Environmental Protection Agency proposes new, tougher statewide standards that would ensure there would be no more Lake Apopka travesties.

EPA points to chemical threats, calls for expanded authority

EPA points to chemical threats, calls for expanded authority

There are tens of thousands of chemicals in use in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency can't say for sure if many of them are safe and routinely takes years to assess the risks of ones in common use.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called Tuesday for an overhaul of how the nation manages and assesses chemicals risks.

She branded existing laws -- regulated under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act -- as too slow, weak and tangled in red tape to address public anxiety about toxic threats in everyday items, from phthalates in plastic baby bottles to lead in toys.

DOT, EPA Propose New Fuel Economy, C02 Rules

DOT, EPA Propose New Fuel Economy, C02 Rules

After President Barack Obama outlined the plan in a May speech, the U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency have announced a coordinated program to improve the fuel economy standards of passenger cars and trucks as well as lower greenhouse gas emissions.

EPA Proposes New Smog Standard

EPA Proposes New Smog Standard

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed a stricter standard for pollutants that cause smog, a rule that would affect utilities, manufacturers, oil refiners and automakers. The new standard, if approved, would impose moderate to large costs but also have impressive health benefits for millions of people.

The proposal would change the primary standard for ground-level ozone of no more than 0.075 parts per million, as imposed by the Bush administration, to 0.06 to 0.07 parts per million, but phased in over the next two decades.

BY CURTIS MORGAN

[e-mail]

Citrus growers, cattle ranchers, sugar farmers, nursery owners and utility operators -- along with a long line of their attorneys -- told federal regulators Thursday that proposed new water quality standards were too confusing and too costly.

More than 200 people packed a mid-day public hearing in West Palm Beach held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the standards, which would put a hard cap on the amount of nutrients fouling the state's rivers, steams, lakes and canals.

Nicholas Albergo, a Tampa-based engineer, told top EPA managers that the complex rule is rife with ``technical black holes'' that could create hardships for every sector of the economy, as well as local governments that might have to bankroll the cleanup.

He urged the agency to postpone and overhaul the rules, which were ordered as part of federal settlement. The standards are to go into effect in October.

``I guess my message is, slow down,'' he said.

Environmentalists applauded the step by the EPA, saying the state had lolly-gagged in setting hard numbers on nutrient pollution.

``This should have been done years ago,'' said Marti Daltry, a Sierra Club member from Fort Myers.

The meeting is the third and last one the EPA has scheduled on the standards.

[Kathryn Ball]

Obama and his cadre are carrying out their radical agenda at break neck speed as they consider the American people to be mouth breathing, Neanderthals with no where NEAR the sophistication and knowledge shared by their elite band of educrats.
They know EXACTLY what they are doing.........EVERYTHING is intended to keep the citizenry off balance. Because of the financial insecurity [which I actually believe has been done intentionally] businesses are holding off hiring any new employees because they tend to look FORWARD and lately the future seems pretty bleek.
In spite of the bank 'bailouts' and continued low interest rates the banks are VERY wary of making any new loans, even to customers with squeeky clean records. Banks are still encouraged to make shakey loans to people with little chance of actually paying the agreed upon payments. Additionally, the banks are threatened with closer scrutiny from the bank examiners when they don't comply with the government orders.
This is ALL deliberate.......ALL intended to disable the 'system' and create extreme unrest among the people, making it much easier for those people to give up more and more of their liberties until we are completely controlled by the government.
Richard A. Cloward [a professor of social work at Columbia University] and his research assistant, Francis Fox Piven authored what became known as "the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis". they specifically calculated their strategy as a way to 'end poverty' by bringing the capitalist system to collapse through a series of escalating demands which could never be met.
One of their main demands was the establishment of a "gauranteed annual income". In 1972, that demand became a part of the Democrat Platform and the Democrat nominee, George McGovern.
Desiring that their ideas should reach beyond polotics, they argued that like-minded fellow travelers wreak havoc on the system. One way to accomplish this was to have social workers sign up the poor in existing social programs for welfare which would tax the system to the breaking point.
When those programs were no longer able to deliver the promised welfare benefits, the new dependent class would rise up and would create a real crisis for the system.
In so doing, they destroyed the African American family, they were promised cash for babies but only if the mother was not married to the father. We all know that the promise made year after year to these 'poor' was that they would be elevated OUT of poverty. Since then, the black vote has become a wholly owned supporter of Democrat candidates.
The definition of insanity is repeating the SAME activity over and over and expecting a different outcome. Rather than being 'lifted out of poverty' they remain on the welfare plantation and are taught to hate those who produce or achieve any level of success.
In the early 70's, George Wiley, founder of the National Welfare Reform Organization [NWRO] over saw the hiring of social workers by that organization with the express purpose of expanding the welfare rolls as fast as possible. It was very effective as the number of welfare recipients went from 4.3 million nationally to 10.8 million by the middle of the decade. In New York City, there was 1 welfare recipient for every 2 residents working in the private sector. The city collapsed into bankruptcy in 1975.
While George Wiley was a deciple of Cloward-Piven, Wade Rathke was a deciple of Wiley. In 1970, after working for NWRO, he formed a new organization-the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now- or "ACORN" The name was later changed to "the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now", the acronym remained.
This is the organization Barak Obama would serve as an attorney and as a trainer of its leadership.
ACORN is not just about registering Democratic voters, it was about registering so many that it created a crisis in the system the same way Wiley created a crisis in the welfare rolls. Fraudulant voters were just as good as legitimate voters.
PS....much of ACORN's funding came from our old pal, George Soros, who seems oddly present wherever corruption is found.
I have never, at any time in my life been a conspiracy theorist but the more I learn and the more dots are connected I cannot help but believe that what we are experiencing is all part of a grand design to destroy this country and its way of life.
Unless those of us who are now, FINALLY paying attention find a way to turn this ship around we will find ourselves being RULED by evil despots.
I wonder how many of the black voters are still delighted to finally have one of their 'own' elevated to the highest office in the land [arguably, the world]?
Also, I heard on the news this week that ACORN is "ELLIGABLE for $4 BILLION" of our money.....................................................isn't that special?

[Roger Dail May]

Here we go. How much damage is Obama going to do before he take us down. This it not going to hurt anyone but average Joe and people on Retirement.