The AP reports that Gov. Arnold "Girlie Man" Schwarzenegger recently managed to make some *big enemies* in the California Nurses Union.
Last month when a group of nurses gathered to protest Schwarzenegger's decision to delay changing the state's nurse-to-patient ratio, Schwarzenegger responded: "The special interests don't like me in Sacramento because I am always kicking their butts."
Are you *kidding* me? First off, if there is any special interest he's playing to, it's hospital administrators. And second, he's "KICKING THEIR BUTTS"? Is this lame macho rhetoric the only way Arnie could come up with to respond to the *very* valid criticism by nurses that they are tired of being overworked?
Rose Ann De Moro, executive director of the California Nurses Association, explains that: "He behaves like an arrogant patriarch with respect to women's occupations. Nurses, teachers, home health workers — it's vulgar how he's run roughshod over them. He's arrogant, and he's a bully."
Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, chimes in that: "The arrogance of taking on teachers, nurses and other professions where women are underpaid, overworked and vital to society is beyond the pale. But Arnold is someone who treats women as objects, so it's natural for him to have a tendency to disregard and devalue professions that are made up of women."
But here is something to make you smile. The AP reports that: "Last week, some 300 nurses and their supporters disrupted a movie premiere in Sacramento, booing Schwarzenegger as he posed with actors Vince Vaughn and The Rock." Wow. Now I would *love* to see that.
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It is *shocking* such a fine, untypcasted, actor-turned-governor, could make such awful decisions.
SHOCKING.
So nurses are a special interest? How about people who might someday need to stay in a hospital, and would prefer to be treated by nurses who have the time to attend to them properly? Sounds like a general interest to me.
The phase-in of California's new nursing standards is the product of years of studies and negotiation. Not that Arnold cares. If he's ever hospitalized, he'll get VIP treatment.
Arnold rocks...I love that guy!!!
Arnold is gov. and should be able to have an opinion without some lady, that makes minimum wage, telling him what he needs to be doing!!!
Fascism is a form of liberalism? BAHAHAHAHHA*cough*
That's the stupidest load of tripe I've ever read. Oh, and if you're going to preach at people, have the decency to use your own words instead of hiding behind someone else's.
Verlch:
There's no point in repeating this tired ultra-rightist revisionist history that tars the political left with every historical crime. It's transparent to everyone except the true believers. What's next, blaming the liberalism of the 1960s for the Trail of Tears?
You appear to espouse a Christian fundametalist worldview. Between you and the readership of this site, there simply is not enough common ground for any meaningful discussion. All you are doing, in effect, is standing around telling us we're all going to hell. You're not persuading anyone.
"So nurses are a special interest? How about people who might someday need to stay in a hospital, and would prefer to be treated by nurses who have the time to attend to them properly? Sounds like a general interest to me."
Considering how effectively teachers have been made into a special interest group, I don't have high hopes for this argument.
If people want good, hard-working nurses to attend them in the hospital, they would do better to avoid being short-sighted and try to cut nurses' pay and benefits. Good people won't want the job if it doesn't pay well.
Same with teachers. If your kid's education means nothing to you, then by all means, oppose teachers' unions.
I just don't understand how a profession so important can be deemed non-important. My brain can't get past that part.