Do you approve of Michael A. Tabolt as Legislator?

so is everyone else. just what you get when u are a yes man

He is about as worthless as Burke!

careful what you wish for. tabolt's harmless and is capable when he needs to be. we get another BK style rep., aka "mr. negativity," and the surface of the moon will have more business.

political hack wrote:

careful what you wish for. tabolt's harmless and is capable when he needs to be. we get another BK style rep., aka "mr. negativity," and the surface of the moon will have more business.

Your a political dim wit. Many years ago BK saved our hospital from going private. May need him back when you have to go in a nursing home in tin buck to.

wishfor wrote:

<quoted text> Your a political dim wit. Many years ago BK saved our hospital from going private. May need him back when you have to go in a nursing home in tin buck to.

I wondered who the dimwit was that stopped the privatization of that circus. It had better be privatized--either it stands on its own two feet or this county and every taxpayer in will go bankrupt!
Saved our hospital? What a joke! You know who benefits most from it? The employees and the welfare/medicaid recipients it serves most! Get your head out of your arse.

that hospital has benefited the broad spectrum of Lewis County citizens. it's our parents and grandparents that live in the nursing home and an emergency room in an area of farmers, loggers and construction workers as well as everyday life is necessary.
people overlook that for most of the last ten years that hospital operated at a profit and only recently got into trouble. even that may be soon taken care when the IGT money that is owed the county comes in- as it will- and at that time the hospital will be in the black.
there are 400 good jobs at that hospital that we can't lose. it benefits not just the employees, but all the businesses these employees patronize and all the homes they buy and taxes they pay. the hospital is a major asset and we better not lose it.
the legislators are at fault here for not doing the proper job of oversight. that's where the change should be- not a change of hospital ownership!

dimwitsabound wrote:

that hospital has benefited the broad spectrum of Lewis County citizens. it's our parents and grandparents that live in the nursing home and an emergency room in an area of farmers, loggers and construction workers as well as everyday life is necessary.
people overlook that for most of the last ten years that hospital operated at a profit and only recently got into trouble. even that may be soon taken care when the IGT money that is owed the county comes in- as it will- and at that time the hospital will be in the black.
there are 400 good jobs at that hospital that we can't lose. it benefits not just the employees, but all the businesses these employees patronize and all the homes they buy and taxes they pay. the hospital is a major asset and we better not lose it.
the legislators are at fault here for not doing the proper job of oversight. that's where the change should be- not a change of hospital ownership!

The legislators are to blame? They don't run the damn thing. It has a hospital board and adminintrators that are paid huge salaries in comparison to any others in this county. Nobody is saying that the hospital should be closed or torn down. Those who use it should be paying for it. It should not be subsidized by property taxes! The pension system that is currently in place for the employees there is not sustainable. A private entity would allow for a 401k pension system instead. Other entities have been forced to pursue that route. Lewis County Hospital needs to drive a chevy, not a damn Mercedes Benz! This is a small rural county. Those farmers and loggers you mentioned can't keep providing all the benefits and freebies the unionized employeees there demand--benefits that the loggers and farmers can't afford for themselves. The rest of us are starting to gag on The pole they've been shoving up our butts. The greed has to stop.

Dave wood makes over 100 g, Kathy Millard sucked her way into 75 G. CEO got a 20,000 dollar raise, how many other overpaid freeloaders up there? Still wonder why they are going under?

yes, the legislators are to blame. the ultimate oversight belongs to them. about three or four years ago they abdicated their authority and gave carte blanche to the hospital board and administarion, allowing them to pursue too many expensive projects with no oversight. the legislators even allowed the hospital board to pick their own members rather than the legislators make the decision. I believe some of these abdications of resonsibility may be questionable in a legal sense...but ultimately, yes, it's the legisaltor's fault. as for the benefits you speak of, yes, I believe that concessions need to be made. however, as a citizen, I want control of the hospital and ownership tp remain in the hands of the public- not a select board of insiders. the public needs to flush out the legislators that did not hold hospital management accountable. get rid of the management - not the public.
again, I also believe that inspite of some expensive, bad decisions made by hospital management...legislators having finally seen their folly, may be panicing beyond what is called for. when the IGT money arrives the hospital will be whole. legislators need to reign in the buying of clinics and making doctors and their employees into hospital employees should not have been allowed to happen. Speaking of legislators, where was Tabolt, also a hospital board member during some of these decisions and why wasn't he reporting in detail to the full board?

another thing. the cost of that retirement program you're worried about. thank the fat cat investment bankers that caused the crash- the nurses, cnas, the lab employees and the maintenance staff had nothing to do with it.

dimwitsabound wrote:

another thing. the cost of that retirement program you're worried about. thank the fat cat investment bankers that caused the crash- the nurses, cnas, the lab employees and the maintenance staff had nothing to do with it.

Matt Doheney currently running for congress. Is he the fat cat you are talking about?

sharpie wrote:

Dave wood makes over 100 g, Kathy Millard sucked her way into 75 G. CEO got a 20,000 dollar raise, how many other overpaid freeloaders up there? Still wonder why they are going under?

KM is not worth 75 cents

dimwitsabound wrote:

another thing. the cost of that retirement program you're worried about. thank the fat cat investment bankers that caused the crash- the nurses, cnas, the lab employees and the maintenance staff had nothing to do with it.

Worried about? I don't give a rat's a$$ who is to blame. I'm just worried about paying my damn taxes so the county does't confiscate my house! The bottom line is---the taxpayers of this county just can't afford to hand out the generous benefits that public employees think they are entitled to. Who provides the retirement benefits and the health insurance benefits (which go on even after public employees retire) for the farmers and loggers you mentioned earlier? Who pays their health insurance when they retire? They provide all of it for themselves!!! And the public employees want them to provide theirs too!!! Where is the justice in that? Can you explain that to us all? I can tell you what some of the biggest problems are with that hospital. It's the friggin unions that have unionized against the taxpayer and are seeking to get every dime they can. Nobody is wanting to close that hospital but it needs to stand on its own 2 feet like other area hospitals do.

Strate Chooter wrote:

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Worried about? I don't give a rat's a$$ who is to blame. I'm just worried about paying my damn taxes so the county does't confiscate my house! The bottom line is---the taxpayers of this county just can't afford to hand out the generous benefits that public employees think they are entitled to. Who provides the retirement benefits and the health insurance benefits (which go on even after public employees retire) for the farmers and loggers you mentioned earlier? Who pays their health insurance when they retire? They provide all of it for themselves!!! And the public employees want them to provide theirs too!!! Where is the justice in that? Can you explain that to us all? I can tell you what some of the biggest problems are with that hospital. It's the friggin unions that have unionized against the taxpayer and are seeking to get every dime they can. Nobody is wanting to close that hospital but it needs to stand on its own 2 feet like other area hospitals do.

It was the union who gave management all of it's big raises last Novemeber? No? For those that think that the union is greedy, they where offered 0% this year. Fine? When will management give back the raises from last Novemeber? Cry wolfe! guess what, I want that place to remain public. We own it? When it goes private, we will see alot of critcal health care eliminated. Hope it is not your life we have to save, or maybe I do.