Through The Eyes Of This Soul

Were you one of the generous ones that voted another raise for our overworked men & women in politics? If it wasn't you, apparently you're not alone. There is nobody that I know of that voted for it........or even had the option to "Yea" or "Nay" such an outrageous move. It seems that politics is the only secure occupation left. What the hell, could you go to work for someone and expect to receive a pension after just four years of service? (service??? That's another joke on us)
It doesn't matter how much we complain, the great political machine just rumbles on and on. If aliens visited our earth and transported all of mankind, with the exception of the politician, to another planet, how long would it be before we were missed? If they need more money, that's no problem, they can close a couple more hospitals or schools. They won't notice. We gave them another raise, they send their kids to private schools and if they need health care, no problem, they can afford to go private.
Last week my wife had to go by ambulance to the hospital........now that was an experience. She was recovering from a double abdominal surgery when things started to go south. Her surgery, which required the services of a specialist, was performed in London, about 2 1/2hrs. away. Well, our local hospital wasn't equipped to handle this particular emergency and the next closest hospital (Windsor) was closed to trauma because of a major traffic accident. Windsor would of been fine a couple of years ago but, like a lot of other towns and cities, hospitals have been closed down like there's ten more to take their place. That meant that Public General Hospital in Chatham was next in line. A couple of years ago Chatham had two great hospitals, you guessed it, not now. Anyway, back to the ambulance debacle. First of all, the home health care nurse, after speaking with the surgeon in London, was instructed to have my wife transported to a Windsor hospital because of the dire condition the patient was in. Also, Windsor had the facilities to deal with the problem. Our local ambulance dispatcher chose to argue the destination, wanting to transport her to our little Leamington hospital which is only six blocks from home. When my wife was finally on her way to Chatham, the ambulance attendants couldn't monitor her temperature because their monitoring device was broken. They couldn't even check her blood pressure because they only had a small child's B.P.cuff.
This is where the money comes from when the politicians decide that they can't possibly survive on their "poverty-level" wages.