Rationing health care

From: GeorgeS <pip@shore.net>
Subject: Rationing health care
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:49:15 -0400

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>  John Silber lost the
>Mass Governor's race a while back for merely suggesting we "ration"  health
>care. 

Hmmm, as I recollect, Silber lost because he is a tyrannical self
aggrandizing loud mouth. Some pinpoint the exact moment he blew the
election. They say he lost the election when he tore Natalie Jacobson, a
mostly harmless local newscaster, a new anus in response to her puff
question : "what are your shortcomings." Old JS screamed his ad hominem (ad
Natalie?) response to her, and got his angry mug splashed all over local TV.
The unreasonable voters seemed to think, if he blows his cookies over this,
what happens when he gets a real problem.

Suggestions that he wanted to gas the Cambodians in Lowell, and ship off the
Revere Latinos to Mexico, are naught but apocryphal exaggerations of his
basic racist simplistic response to political problems. Silber, remember,
is the guy who thought Mandella belonged in jail, and squashed BU faculty
attempts to honor the man.

John Silber is  the man who finally drove what we fondly call the democratic
peoples republic of Ma. into the hands of a republican governor. It takes a
special guy to do that. Remember Ma., home of demcocratic notables as T
Kennedy and B Frank. It takes grand canyon quantities of personal
peccadillos to make the average voter in Ma. vote republican. JS more than
met this criteria.

Health care rationing played a minor role in the election, one had a wide
variety of reasons to question Silber's qualifications for what we locals
know as

        hizzoner da guvnah' 


> Granted, Silber wasn't subtle, 

Granted  infinity is big
Granted eternity is a long time




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