We Need Dennis Richardson For Governor More Than Ever!

I'd like to remind people that "Doctor" Kitzhaber practiced emergency room medicine exactly long enough to complete his residency, and then ran for office. He hasn't practiced medicine in any meaningful way since 1978, when he was first elected to the Oregon House. He was elected to the Oregon Senate in 1980 and worked his way up to Senate President before running for Governor in 1994 - creating the Oregon Health Plan along the way. In between his 2 Governor gigs, he did not return to medical practice, but founded the Archimedes Movement, a liberal political think tank with a goal of imposing socialized medicine. So basically he was an actual doctor for 5 years, but a political hack whose only record of accomplishment was creating unsustainable medical welfare programs for 34 years. So there's that.

Oregon increasing its appetite for federal money!!

The money it gets from the feds rose to 6.1 percent — to $16.4 billion — in 2013-15, as compared to 2011-13. The Oregon Health Authority got the largest chunk, about $7.6 billion. Part of that — roughly $1.2 billion — is for the state’s expanded Medicaid program, a joint effort with the federal government. By 2016, the feds are expected to fund the program in full. The Department of Human Services also got a large slice, about $6.3 billion; the rest was divided between various government agencies — about $500,000 for public safety and $1.5 billion for education.
oregoncatalyst.com/26907-oregon-increasing-appetit....html

Broken Homes, Broken Boys!!

Signs that the nuclear-family meltdown of the past half a century has been particularly toxic to boys are not new. Liberals often assume that these kinds of social problems result from our stingy support system for single mothers and their children. Provide more maternity leave, quality daycare and healthcare, goes the thinking, and a lot of the disadvantages of single-parent homes would vanish. But the link between criminality and fatherlessness holds even in countries with lavish social welfare systems. A 2006 Finnish study of 2,700 boys, for instance, concluded that living in a non-intact family at age 8 predicted a variety of criminal offenses. If the trends of the last 40 years continue — and there's little reason to think that they won't — the percentage of boys growing up with single mothers will keep growing. No one knows how to stem that tide. But by understanding the way family instability interacts with boys' restless natures, educators could experiment with approaches that might improve at least some lives.
www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hymowitz-...UHZaX