It amazes me how citizens in the great state of Tennessee continue to allow the special interests with big money to control the state legislature. I was hopeful that the Tennessee Waltz sting would bring about a more transparent General Assembly and state government, boy was I wrong! One look at Governor Bredesen's pork laden budget shows precisely the influence of money on the budget.
ON the freedom front, particularly as it relates to biker's rights and repealing the mandatory helmet law, it's not too hard to see that big money also influences legislation. ON one hand we have trauma centers in Tennessee walking around with arms outstretched looking for buckets of money so they can continue to rail against helmet laws! Folks, trauma is BIG MONEY in Tennessee! Now Nashville General wants to start a trauma center, the same hospital that can't make a go of it without sucking up your tax dollars now wants even more of your tax dollars to fund a trauma center so they "can make it". Make it on your tax dollars or make it treating trauma patients?
Senator Kurita added 2 cents to the cigarette tax to help fund trauma centers. Do they need more tax dollars to survive? Heck no, they WANT more tax dollars to expand yet they cry the blues over what might happen to them if bikers are allowed to go helmetless. Ever look at the numbers fo patients who die because hospitals can't do a better job? Hospital genocide I call it. Half a million deaths nationally in the last few years. Clean up your own house doc!
Bottom line, they simply think they know what is best for everybody. Bottom line number 2, they DONT!
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