[Newsbot]

Title: Ornge mess sullies Ontario Health Minister's standing
Category: Health
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2012-03-22 08:45:09
Canadian

[OnTheIce]

McGuinty will get voted in again anyways.

[Dragon-Dancer]

Ornge has been a mess since the start, piss poor management planning.

[Regina]

Actually great management planning.........they filled their pockets with our money.

[BeaverFever]

Well, like the article points out, the entire amount of taxpayer money provdided to ORNGE is only 0.3% of the Health budget. So it was easy for the criminals at ORNGE to stay off the radar and hide in plain sight.

Not that I'm minimizing any of this. I think when rich and powerful steal money -espcially public money - its worse than a kid from the ghetto robbing a store at gunpoint. I hope every one of these bastards is tarred and feathered in a public square before serving a lenghty sentence behind bars and having a government lawsuit strip every penny from them.

[andyt]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I think when rich and powerful steal money -espcially public money - its worse than a kid from the ghetto robbing a store at gunpoint. I hope every one of these bastards is tarred and feathered in a public square before serving a lenghty sentence behind bars

Sorry, that's usually reserved for the ghetto kid. Can't have some of our most prominent citizens in jail now, can we? A ghetto kid stealing threatens the system. The rich and powerful stealing is the system.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

andyt andyt:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I think when rich and powerful steal money -espcially public money - its worse than a kid from the ghetto robbing a store at gunpoint. I hope every one of these bastards is tarred and feathered in a public square before serving a lenghty sentence behind bars

Sorry, that's usually reserved for the ghetto kid. Can't have some of our most prominent citizens in jail now, can we? A ghetto kid stealing threatens the system. The rich and powerful stealing is the system.

Got that right.

Don't steal. The gov't HATES competition.

[BeaverFever]

To be fair, the ORNGE guys weren't government. They were private-sector business partners ripping off the government.

[andyt]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

To be fair, the ORNGE guys weren't government. They were private-sector business partners ripping off the government.

Exactly. PA's post makes no sense. If the govt takes money, even if it wastes it on inefficient or ineffective projects, that's not stealing. Stealing is when the govt's private buddies get in on the act. Part of the system tho - no matter who's in power. Reward your friends.

[Regina]

Not totally private in the normal definition, McCarter described it as a public-private hybrid so there should have been someone riding shot gun on the cheque book. Especially since government funding for Ornge climbed 20 per cent over four years, while the number of patients it airlifted actually declined.
I only hope that the province can terminate all existing contract and leases given to the buddy system.