Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tim Spies Debate Package
At every Tim Spies Event I feel these pens should be passed around and clicked constantly for his pleasure as we know from the past he will flee from a clicking pen.
Questions For City Council Candidates?
Bruce Ford Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Paramedic/Firefighter Bruce Ford Announces His Candidacy and Vision for Salisbury City Council
SALISBURY, MD – January 19, 2011 – My name is Bruce Ford. I am running for Salisbury City Council because Salisbury is in a crisis and I feel very strongly that Salisbury’s crime, blight and economic concerns are solvable with focused effort and strong leadership.
Other communities in our region have faced similar if not worse situations and overcome them using collaborative approaches, drawing on the wisdom of all of the community’s major stakeholders.
I was born in Salisbury, raised in Fairmount, and have lived in Salisbury for 13 years. I have been a career paramedic/firefighter with the Berlin Fire Company for 23 years and a physician’s assistant for 7 years. I have been married for 13 years. My four daughters have never known another home than Salisbury. I work hard to support my family and want to know that they are safe and free to flourish as they grow.
My priorities for the city are to:
· reduce crime, slum and blight
· identify a true community vision
· position Salisbury as a regional economic hub, providing stable, well-paying jobs for city residents.
Please visit www.onesalisbury.org for more detailed information about my vision for the future of Salisbury.
I am Bruce Ford. Together we can build a city.
Website: www.onesalisbury.org
E-Mail: bruce@onesalisbury.org
City Council Filing Deadline Passes With Little Fanfare
There they are your candidates for Salisbury City Council. I was expecting some big name players to maybe file yesterday but only one extra person filed. I believe any of them except Terry Cohen and Pen Click Lover Tim Spies would do a fine job at this point, but we will learn more as time progresses.
Health Care a Right?
There's going to be a vote to repeal ObamaCare in the House today. It will pass. Harry Reid will not allow it to come up with a vote in the Senate later. Typical ... he won't allow it to come up for a vote because Democrat Senators are begging him not to make them go on the record on this issue. More on that later ... but I want to focus on something Congressman John Lewis said yesterday. Lewis, a Democrat, naturally, said "I happen to believe that health care is a right."
Oh really? So you believe, Congressman Lewis, that people have a "right" to the time and property of other citizens? After all, you can't receive health care unless someone else spends either their time or they devote some type of property (drugs, medical implements, etc) to the effort, can you? Health care doesn't just appear out of thin air. That time a health care practitioner provides belongs to him. Just how much of that health care provider's time does a citizen have a "right" to? All of it? Only ten percent of it? And just how much of that person's property do you have a "right" to? Do you at least have to leave that person enough property for them to sustain themselves in business? Why? You have a "right" to that property, don't you? Oh! That person will be PAID for their property ... the drugs they produce, the medical implements they develop ... right? Fine; then were does that money come from? Oh yeah ... the taxpayers. I forgot. So, Congressman Lewis ... the person in need of medical care has a "right" to someone else's money, right? How much of it? What if they need all of it? What if they need a medical procedure that is so expensive that there is almost no limit to the amount of money that is going to be seized from some other taxpayer to pay for it? Doesn't the taxpayer have a right to the money they earned? Uh oh. We have competing rights now, don't we?
Can't you see it folks --- this "right" to health care nonsense is completely asinine and unworkable. When we start granting people the "right" to someone else's life we're on that slippery slope they talk about all the time.
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