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This morning, as I greeted the day with my coffee and my Newsday, I found an article ,(link below), which really warmed the cockles of my cholesterol laden heart. Inmate freed to seek heart transplant
Perhaps this example of dysfunctional justice, as made by the legal system, will give the reader a sense of just where, and how, our tax dollars are being spent.
I would have considered, that with the technology available, the judge who adjudicated this case might have been able to connect with the defendant via electronic
telecommunication, rather than have this prisoner wheeled into his courtroom, in her hospital bed, with an intravenous drip and a heart pump. After reading the article,
I had a better understanding of why Nassau County is going down the financial drain. I would speculate that the moving costs alone, were quite a bang to the taxpayers,
and when you consider that the Medicaid system is going to spring for a heart transplant for this prison inmate, I'm sure that there will be others who'll demand an equal
measure of judicial charity in their own particular situation.
While our legislators scramble to pull pennies out of the budget, our taxpayer dollars, are flying out the window.
It's the cops and teachers fault ok with that out of the way.....
When other people's money is spent, the government can pour $700 billion into a Troubled Asset Relief Program that is allegedly needed to rescue the financial sector, then banks and Wall Street firms that were supposedly on the brink of cataclysmic failure can turn around and pay out billions of dollars in bonuses to executives.
When other people's money is spent, the government can use $49 billion to bail out a multinational corporation GM
When other people's money is spent, the government can pass an $814 billion economic stimulus plan laden with special interest giveaways that is supposed to prevent unemployment from rising above 8 percent, but when the economy isn't stimulated and unemployment rises to 10 percent, advocates can come back and claim that even more of other people's money is needed for another stimulus that, this time, "We promise!" will work.
Yeah, sorry, but I don't think criminals should be released from prison to be able to have transplants. You do the crime you do the time and you damn well shouldn't be let out early because you need a heart transplant. And now our tax dollars will pay for her transplant if she does end up getting one.
Sisters who will share kidney released from Mississippi prison | 7online.com (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=7882733 - broken link)
They were costing the state $200000 per year for dialysis and other stuff to keep them in prison. So they let Medicaid take care of it..... wow.
I think the prison system in the state of California is also in a bad shape.
>She pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing about $3,800 in merchandise from a Target store on two occasions in 2009 and 2010. She took the merchandise while on parole from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility on a felony larceny conviction.<
Yes Mike, you are entirely correct, the system is broken to a point of outrage!
It's the cops and teachers fault ok with that out of the way.....
When other people's money is spent, the government can pour $700 billion into a Troubled Asset Relief Program that is allegedly needed to rescue the financial sector, then banks and Wall Street firms that were supposedly on the brink of cataclysmic failure can turn around and pay out billions of dollars in bonuses to executives.
When other people's money is spent, the government can use $49 billion to bail out a multinational corporation GM
When other people's money is spent, the government can pass an $814 billion economic stimulus plan laden with special interest giveaways that is supposed to prevent unemployment from rising above 8 percent, but when the economy isn't stimulated and unemployment rises to 10 percent, advocates can come back and claim that even more of other people's money is needed for another stimulus that, this time, "We promise!" will work.
I'm sorry but the whole system is broken
This story is sickening Eddie.
BigMike, I hope you realize that the rest of the country is bailing "Us" out, "Us" meaning NY, Illinois and Cali (our unsustainable spending and pension obligations). A major chunk of the "Stimulus", or "other people's money" as you phrased it, is going to Build America Bonds -- to bailout union dominated states that are in trouble now as they have "run out of taxpayer money" to support the union schemes.
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This is a rolling bailout and you, the taxpayer, are on the hook and pay part of the interest to keep afloat states that have made terrible budgeting decisions. This decision by the federal government would force irresponsible states to resort to conventional bonding, without the federal government giving them preferential treatment.
This story is sickening Eddie.
BigMike, I hope you realize that the rest of the country is bailing "Us" out, "Us" meaning NY, Illinois and Cali (our unsustainable spending and pension obligations). A major chunk of the "Stimulus", or "other people's money" as you phrased it, is going to Build America Bonds -- to bailout union dominated states that are in trouble now as they have "run out of taxpayer money" to support the union schemes.
Socialism works until you run out of other people's money. You're an OB fan and didn't even realize it.
A Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/A-Path-Is-Sought-for-States-nytimes-1316605857.html;_ylt=AgbO78Xst0azQX0v9iKtF8S7YWsA; _ylu=X3oDMTE1MjVzbTRrBHBvcwMzBHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzB HNsawNwb2xpY3ltYWtlcnM-?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode= - broken link)
Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
Bankruptcy could permit a state to alter its contractual promises to retirees, which are often protected by state constitutions, and it could provide an alternative to a no-strings bailout. Along with retirees, however, investors in a state’s bonds could suffer, possibly ending up at the back of the line as unsecured creditors.
I see they want it all now....doesn't surprise me one bit.
3. Doctors said she would die within 6 months without a transplant.
4. She is traveling to a facility to see if she is eligible for receiving a heart. This is only screening to see if her physical situation qualifies her.
5. There is no donor heart waiting for her or any guarantee that there ever will be.
6. Nassau County wouldn't pay for the transplant in the event she qualifies and there is a donor match. That comes out of Medicaid.
7. The article did not say where the funds for moving her for her screening come from.
8. The judge said he'd resentence her after her health issues are resolved.
Judging by the comments here so far, it sounds like people feel she should be denied the chance to obtain a transplant, which in effect is sentencing her to death for shoplifting.
If current justice was to go full circle, Target would be on the hook for this idiot's transplant.
I is the victim!
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ok with that out of the way.....
>She pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing about $3,800 in merchandise from a Target store on two occasions in 2009 and 2010. 
Yes Mike, you are entirely correct, the system is broken to a point of outrage!
