It’s time to be blunt and it’s time to state the truth.

With budgets limited and with each county, city, state and our federal government challenged by limited funds, it’s way past time to triage emergency response.

One example in the face of American media today is the man on the tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The man, 25-year-old Michael Sturdivant, who has a history of mental illness, has been on the radio tower since 11 am on Thursday, August 11th. That’s over six days, now. He hasn’t accepted any water since early Friday morning.

Tulsa County court records show that Sturdivant has convictions that include second-degree burglary and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. He was released from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in April, according to the DOC’s Web site.

And yet, despite that, ER personnel are still on site in a fire ladder rig, inclusive of a negotiations team. Trust me, there is MUCH overtime going on there.

If I were the commander of that critical incident, I would fold it. Six failed days of negotiations and begging and cajoling? With no yield? And my very own valuable emergency response personnel in potential jeopardy? People whom I’ve spent, in training, thousands and thousands of dollars? People that I know, that are quality, that are actual producers and not civilian dregs?

It’s way past time to pull the ladder and send fire, emergency and police personnel home to their stations and normal shifts.

That’s called triage. These days, budgetary triage.

There is, essentially, “no fixing stupid.” Or insane as well.

Either he comes down or he falls to his death. If I were a Tulsa taxpayer I’d insist: pull your ER personnel and start applying them to people and situations who want help and can be helped.

In the very early 70s, when I worked for the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Department (CA), I was sent to an event in the Santa Cruz mountains where a deranged man had called and said he’d kill himself if the police showed up. We were dispatched to the address. When my supervisor was made aware of that call and showed at the scene, Sgt Stony Brook, he cleared us. He said (and logically so): “The man said he’d kill himself if we showed up. So get the hell out.”

I say: since there’s no fixing stupid, it’s time to start spending your ER budgets logically.

If that guy really wants to come down, he will. If he really wants to kill himself, he will.

Big deal. Who cares? I certainly do not. If he falls to his death you call a local fire engine for a washdown. If there were a major thoroughfare directly below, I would be concerned. If there is nothing but hard dirt below, no major concern. Simple as that.

Stop pissing away taxpayer funds for people who don’t, by their own purposeful determinations, factor.

There are much larger issues to be addressed every day, by people who deserve help.

BZ

P.S.

And trust me, I’m only writing what the bulk of you are thinking but only a small percentile will have the guts to admit.

Didn’t see this one coming, eh?

But it’s a logical extension of budgetary times via Mr Obama and ObakaKare:

NEW MEDICAL FICO SCORE SPARKS CONTROVERSY, QUESTIONS:

Within the next 12 months, whether you like it or not, about 10 million Americans are expected to be scored — much like a credit score — on how likely they are to fill a prescription and take all the pills the doctor ordered, on schedule.

FICO , creator of the widely used credit score that predicts whether you’ll borrow responsibly, is now rolling out its new Medication Adherence Score.

FICO based its score on a formula that predicts whether you will take your prescription drugs. FICO says that since correct use of medication is important for patients, medical providers, insurers and pharmaceutical companies, the Medication Adherence Score will help achieve that goal. They predict it will improve therapy effectiveness and reduce health care costs.

The company says those who score low can be targeted for extra reminders and educational efforts, with the goal of making patients more likely to complete their prescribed regimens.

“It’s very important to identify those people who may need that additional education and that additional help,” says Dave Shellenberger, senior principal consultant in FICO’s health care division.

Critics aren’t so sure. Since the score uses information on patients’ employment, homeownership and living situations, they say that in the current economic environment, the Medication Adherence Score may unfairly target people who have found themselves in challenging financial situations. It could also, they say, open the door for a new way for insurance companies to charge different prices for different scores. This happened in recent years to consumers buying auto insurance: The cost of those policies are now likely based on an auto insurance credit score .

Hello, ladies and gentlemen?

Your every move from birth to death monitored by your Loving Federal Government? Not just “monitored” but RATED?

BZ

Mr Obama acquired the presidency because he was, primarily, perceived as black.

Surely, his melanin count is higher than mine; an albino tortoise has a higher melanin count.

He was installed because he read a nice TelePrompTer — not because he was a miraculous extemporaneous speaker. Truth be told, Mr Obama speaks poorly “off the cuff” with his phrases packed in “uh” and “uh” and “you know” and various inept fillers.

Mr Obama wouldn’t have qualified for my high school debate team, extemporaneously.

He brought few qualifications to the brew. He voted “present” whilst in the Senate.

He got to the Senate because he was from Chicago.

He was from Chicago because he was black and he was corrupt. Most everything from Chicago is corrupt. Just ask Cermak, Daley, Washington, Rahm Emanuel, or the history of corrupt Illinois governors to include: Ron Blagojevich,

With luck, I hope to be engendering a revulsion within each and every one of you with regard to all politicians — not just Demorats, but staid Republicans as well.

The Old DC Guard need to be destroyed. On both sides of the aisle.

The only survivors we can afford, literally and figuratively, will be actual Conservatives.

That said, please let this video speak for itself:

DC politicians, with a handful of exceptions, are out for themselves, and you can be damned. They’ve “got theirs.” You, as a singular individual, simply do not “factor.”

These days, individuals enter politics for, predominantly, the sole purpose of increasing their individual wealth. Have you never considered or asked the question: WHY would people spend thousands or hundreds-of-thousands or MILLIONS of dollars to run for a given office if there were no RETURN on their investment — lawful or, moreover, otherwise?

It is long PAST time to restrict government on all levels — not increase it.

Don’t you think it’s time to kick Leftism, Liberals, Socialists and Progressives to the curb? Because, when you think about it, when and where is it that they’ve succeeded in bettering our society?

Do these names sound familiar? — Castro, Khrushchev, Stalin, Rousseau, Lenin, Hitler, Marx, Pol Pot, Chavez, Mao Tse Tung, Kim Jong-Il?

BZ

Pretty simple. Mr Munk summarizes in language all urban Brethren and Sistren can grok:

BZ

P.S.

Thanks to The Pagan Temple for revelation.