Pot calls Kettle black. Again.

It's amazing, really. John Ratbastard Howard opens his mouth, and pure shit dribbles out.

( Out with the scalpel again: “PM says AWA study wrong” )

For gods' sake, John, call the damned election so I can vote you the hell out of my life.

Two rants in a row...

Run hospitals like a business, says PM

What is the purpose of a hospital?

One might say that, while broad, it includes such concepts as providing remedial and preventative medical care to individuals and the community.

What, then, is the purpose of a business? No, not the provision of a service to its clients/customers. That's the bullshit believed by middle managers who have drunk the Kool-aid and will never get promoted to that corner office until they wake up about the nature of the sewer they're swimming in.

No, the purpose of a business is to make a profit for its owner(s). That's it. Period.

Providing a service to customers? Yeah, sure, if that's the business model being implemented in order to make a profit.

Hospitals are not businesses. Hospitals are a public service.

Sure, there are private hospitals, but if they are all there is, then what is left is the USian ‘system’. Which is fine, if you're well off. SuX0r to be not-well-off, though. Don't slip, if you fall you'll be crushed, because the machine ain't stopping. Not for you, peon.

There was a discussion about Hospital Management on ABC's Radio National this morning on the drive in. They managed to do the whole thing without once mentioning the word ‘patient’. It was always ‘clients’ and ‘customers’, as if there was some sort of branding choice going on. “Oh no, Mr Ambo, don't take me to the Alfred. I prefer the bedside manner at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.”


Every word that falls from his lips, it becomes clearer. Howard doesn't a rat's arse if you live or die ... if you're not rich.
His policies have the effect, if not the intention, of outright warfare on the Poor.

If he has to eliminate Intellectuals as a group, then he'll do it. (He has his pet intellectuals in the IPA and the Sydney Institute anyway.) If he has to do everything in his power to crush and negate dissent, he'll do it. (He has his pet cheersquad in the News Ltd press in any case — and just because he hasn't sent the troops in to close down The Age doesn't mean he wouldn't, he just doesn't have that power. He's certainly, within his power, had a pretty good whack at neutering the ABC. That he hasn't managed to do so is a testament to the cojones of the ABC staff.)


For gods' sake, John, call the damned election so I can vote you the hell out of my life.