Why Not?

The gulf oil disaster drags on. BP has failed to protect our way of life. This foreign company has repeatedly stumbled over itself since the April 20 fire and collapse of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. The mantra sung by BP is that all that can be done is being done. Really? The Obama administration has picked up the chorus, kneeling to the self protective interests and double talk of BP and our government.

It is time to stop trying to save the well and blow it up. At least three weeks ago this suggestion was advanced as a nuclear option due to the gravity of the disaster. Voices have surfaced on the internet in the last few days that it is time to call our military to action. Surely our president has considered such a possibility. Mr. President speak up, why not?

G.Goslaw

Meg

Let us assume for a moment that Meg Whitman has the guts to be our next governor. Her website and campaign play to the frustration of we common folk but if elected how will she accomplish the task before us? Is there a bigger plan than a grand kum-ba-yah moment that will bring all competing interests together?

These interests include the following:

1. The owner’s of California who provide the tax base, tend to be conservative and fiscally responsible. This interest group includes not only real estate owner’s but includes businesses large and small.

2. The renter culture that pays taxes indirectly but tends to be more liberal and see government as an enabler for upward economic mobility.

3. The union culture that uses the political money trail to grab all they can from our California economy and the taxpayer. Government is the employer of first and best resort.

4. The illegal aliens, their interest groups and the uninformed citizenry who ignore the devastating financial consequence of these folks and their crime.

5. The elitist progressive political minority who wish to enact their Robin Hood mentality of social and political engineering as the new California. Of course, the rich are the middle class not the truly rich.

Is it reasonable to believe that these divergent interest groups will rally to any personage, be they Arnold or Meg? They have not and will not. A middle ground is impossible even if such a compromise would address our ills, which it will not. The time has arrived for out of the box drastic action, our new governor must possess the will to accomplish what is best for California. Meg, the rhetoric is commendable and on point but you or Chuck will need leverage. Political leverage is real power to bring real change. You probably have already considered the leverage to be employed. It is the only powerful tool for change that has any possibility of restoring the historical California success model.

As a state, we need to file bankruptcy and start over.

G.Goslaw

Victorville, CA

Meg Whitman

May 29, 2010

Thank you for listening to my dribbles. As a native Californian and a long time resident, we both have witnessed the decline and fall of the California experience. There was a time when we were the best of the best, economic opportunity was everywhere and our school system was envied by all. As citizens we could take pride in the efficacy and efficiency of state government to enrich our lives. Taxes were an acceptable expense for the privilege of California residency. Sunshine was just an added benefit to being of California.

Our reality in 2010 is that California only has the weather to comfort us. The only economic opportunities are in the heath care system or some form of governmental dole. The average Joe or Jane can anticipate only a meager existence while the union fed hoards feed at our tax trough. Our state’s school systems have degenerated to the bottom of the heap while our politicians throw our money at a failed system that sentences another generation to ignorance. Our culture and our politicians are at the extreme poles of those whose style it is to take and those who resent being taken. Sacramento is not just broken, it is grossly dysfunctional.

The girly man came to town eight years ago preaching your optimism for the future of California. We signed on and have been greatly disappointed at his timidity. Our state’s circumstances would have been vastly improved if he had stuck to his guns. Now all California citizens are at risk. At such a critical hour, dare we trust your leadership to have a back bone? Are you just another political opportunist who will say whatever to win an election? Is politics a game or is it life and death? This hour is life and death for we citizens of California. Are you willing to step out of the political box of normalcy and risk being a pervert for the people, even when most of us don’t understand?

G.Goslaw

Victorville,Ca

Ms. Donna M. Beiter, R.N.,M.S.N.

Acting Director

Department of Veteran Affairs

Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. 90073

December 1, 2008

Dear Ms. Beiter:

Thank you for your letter of October 23, 2008. Eventually we would have a conversation, but my first correspondence was directed along the chain of command, whom I assume couldn’t be bothered. This is Thanksgiving time and at the outset I would like to express my gratitude for your health care services. You took the time to write me and that is very much appreciated.

Mr. Kevin Wright and the Patient Advocate Office, however, is a black hole of unresponsiveness, why would I want to communicate with your buffer? However, a few weeks ago a very helpful lady advocate in that office did help me procure copies of my various X-rays. The necessary confrontation in the radiology department was very heated but you and your personnel made it my only recourse. The machine wasn’t broken after all was it, thank you!

The message of your letter is very clear, you are circling the wagons. To that I would ask, why? Are you, that is the doctors and nursing supervisors, much to busy to communicate with your patient’s? Does the Congress provide inadequate funding so that its necessary to treat your patients in an obligatory manner? Or is the care I received an aberration, some individuals just “slip through the cracks” in every organization? Or are you hiding a negative consequence?

I can’t answer those questions but I too would like this to go away. Why was I doped up in the ICU for two weeks, that’s 14 days? An adequate explanation or an apology is the only way to end it. If I am wrong and your care was “timely and appropriate” as stated in your letter of 10-23, I will profusely apologize. My hope is that this is the final outcome. Possibly its my skeptical nature but no one has been willing to look me in the eye and speak with authority. Circling the wagons is your choice not mine.

My wish is that the L.A. Healthcare “system” have a wondrous holiday season and you have my thanks.

Sincerely,

Glen L. Goslaw

7983 SVL Box

Victorville, Ca. 92395

Dr. Dean Norman

Chief of Staff

Veterans Administration Medical Center

11301 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA. 90073

September 25, 2008

Dear Sir:

It is with undivided loyalty to this country that this veteran is placing this matter at your door. You have my apology for doing so, but I must explore every avenue available to me. This matter has been communicated to Dr.’s Gonzales and Steiner a number of times (3), and Dr. Frazee has ignored my requests to speak with him. Therefore, the next step in the chain of command is to share both my gratitude for the services of the neurosurgery department, along with the medical issue at hand.

The medical issue centers upon the care I received in the ICU, following successful surgery to resection a posterior fossa meningioma. Prior to surgery I was informed that if everything went well, a two or three day stay in the ICU would be expected by all concerned. The craniotomy was performed on May 15 and I was the guest on the third floor until the 28th being discharged to home the next day. Understandably this was a miserable experience, due to my helplessness at receiving morphine and who knows what other drugs for the 14 day stay in the ICU.

The question I must have answered is what didn’t go well? My doctors are unable to field this question in an understandable way, referring primarily to pain avoidance and the hallucinations that resulted from the drugs. Well, if the drugs are the problem……STOP the drugs! So why was I drugged for two weeks? Prior to surgery I had “O” pain, despite my other symptoms. Possibly the morphine prevented pain post surgery, this explanation makes no sense to this veteran.

In an attempt to get these questions answered, I procured my medical records on June 17, 2008. At the suggestion of Dr. Gonzalez, I wrote and gave to the patient advocate office a letter detailing one of my “recollections”, was this a reality or an hallucination? I shall remain in the reality mode until someone has the courtesy to discuss why my “recollection” could not have been reality.

Instead, despite all my efforts what I have experienced is a “Grand Silence”. I will not be bullied and slink away ! I shall continue to be the fly in the ointment, at least until it becomes obvious to all that we all put our pants on in the same manner. Please, I request your assistance in ending these negative vibrations. As they say, the ball is now in your court.

Respectfully yours,

Mr. Glen L. Goslaw

(This letter was without response.)

BP and Others

May 28 Comment in Response to Huffington Post article by Robert Reicht, “How Conservatives Made the Case for Increased Regulations”.

Mr. Reich is rightly wrong. Rightly, the present regulatory system is a failure. Regulation has failed because it is a political football that the Washington screw ups use to enrich themselves. There has never been true regulation, only a self serving bureaucracy. Case in point BP. The politicians have given this oil giant limited financial liability in the name of regulation, or is it deregulation? They have little dollar incentive to be safe. The inevitable result has been and will continue to be catastrophic, be it Wall Street, the border, Fannie and Freddie, the banks or BP. This is only the beginning.

Wrongly, the cure is not more corrupt regulation. The only possible cure for this evil is the maligned Libertarian approach to governance. Full blown deregulation whose only regulator is the marketplace. There should be no such animal as “too big to fail”. An entity will operate responsibly or it will be an unqualified failure to be junked, period. Government only need require private insurance to protect the people’s interests. These insurance companies will demand and enforce their own regulation. If an oil company cannot operate safely enough to get insurance, that company will not drill. That’s the way it works with my commercial driver’s license. That’s the way it works for we regular folks, are you listening Mr. Reich.

ggoslaw

Victorville, CA

illegals

Editor Don Holland

Daily Press

Has there been an editorial policy change at the Daily Press? Today’s (May 21)High Desert section has two bylines mentioning serious crimes perpetrated by “illegal’s”. Am I wrong? Is this a new Daily Press that has decided to call a spade a spade and disregard political correctness? This is a welcome and long overdue editorial decision, thank you.

G.Goslaw

Victorville, Ca