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In the Non-profit portion of the Medical care industry - EVERY Group suffers this Same Mentality. We Must have the Cash flow to complete our mission.
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And they will be very very careful to report 'success', some increase or decrease in the fifth or sixth digit behind the decimal point.
Mission complete ?
Never. Ever.
Mission accomplished means 'great job, thanks' and not a single dime funding anymore.
None of these outfits are going to dig their own grave.
Pretend, yes. Shovel the dirt from left to right, but actually succeeding ? Heck, no !
Talking of dirt:
Since it appears to become an all out fight, why not resort to the standards of campaigning - like digging up dirt ?
Mitch et al... the way they are sticking their necks out, it's gotta be worth their while.
Cuz that FDA sticker on products - any product - got nothing to do with protecting public health.
Seems rather like 'fork enough dough in the FDA's direction and you get a license to poison the public...
Hamburg, I think that's just the tip of the iceberg....
One of the greater tragedies of our time is that the original design, "us" (We, the people) versus "them" (those in power), with the media setup as OUR watchdog, has been perverted to an almost inconceivable degree. The media are guilty for their part, but WE are more guilty, for failing to understand that "they" are consciously pitting us against each other.
And with that, I take my (temporary) leave.
(...and the crowd cheered the departure)
In no small part the result of the 'for-free' culture.
Newspapers been dyin left right and center. Newsrooms been downsized to the point of a lone editor just copy-pasting what runs of the big agency's ticker.
Think a sccop like the Watergate could happen today ?
I doubt it.
Newspapers - if any left - just don't have the finances anymore to keep reporters chasing a story for any length of time. Sure subscriptions and OTC sales never covered the whole, but it used to be enough for the papers to retain at least a modicum of independence from advertising money.
Now you get tons of 'news' for free online. Badly researched ( if at all ) click-bait, barely discernible amongst all the banners, side bars, pop-up, scroll windows, etc.etc....
Don't have the link, but it's estimated that as much as 70% of the so-called 'news' are spin pieces, streamed to the papers by PR agencies...
You get what you pay for.
And you get more for what you don't pay for.