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Many political observers are upset by a top prospect’s declining the administration's offer to run the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs. 

 

Fox News.com reports that, yesterday, “Cleveland Clinic chief executive Dr. Toby Cosgrove acknowledged he had been contacted by the administration but said he wants to remain at his current job to complete his work.”

Cosgrove, a decorated Vietnam veteran, said, “This has been an extraordinarily difficult decision, but I have decided to withdraw from consideration …  due to the commitment I have made to the organization, our patients and the work that still needs to be done here."

While on the surface, Dr. Cosgrove’s decision may seem merely the government’s loss of a highly-skilled, far above average professional, his refusal illustrates a deep and extremely harmful flaw within the whole public employment system. Because, with very rare exceptions, almost no truly qualified personnel at any level at all, would choose a government position over a job in the private sector.

And that’s why, virtually all government-run endeavors ultimately fail.

Therefore, to obtain the best chances of satisfactory results, any government entity providing any type of customer service to the public ought to be organized on a voucher system, permitting those customers to select providers themselves. That method alone, based on competitive free-market enterprise, would solve the vast majority of service quality problems all by itself. 

Today’s second item seems to be illustrating a tactic Mother Nature's using to not only refute climate change and global warming, but to do it quite pointedly. Because, while temperatures aren't rising in general, the incumbent’s own home town in particular is still suffering from the effects of one of its coldest years in its history.         

 

Mai Martinez of Chicago's CBS 2  reports that: “With beautiful weather on tap for the weekend, lots of people will be boating on Lake Michigan.

But after two deadly accidents on the water last weekend, the Chicago Fire Department is reminding people of the hazards of cold water.”

Ron Dorneker, deputy district chief for the Chicago Fire Department’s Marine and Dive Operations warns that, “There’s still a lot of cold water in Lake Michigan.” In the middle, it’s just 38 degrees. Off Navy Pier, a quick check showed 60 degrees.

 

“Anything below 70 degrees, the medical community terms it as cold water,” Dorneker says.

So, I guess that perhaps billionaire Tom Steyer ought to take some of the $100 million he’s pouring into his anti-global-warming campaign and buy some space-heaters for Lake Michigan’s shores. Because if Mother Nature continues having it her way unbridled, frozen Chicagoan's will still be ice skating in July.   

Even Wheel of Fortune host, Pat Sajak, has had enough on the subject, whereas according to Eric Pfeiffer’s “The Sideshow,” he apparently caused a major uproar in social media circles on Tuesday, writing on Twitter that “global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends.”

And I guess, in his case, if typical brain-dead alarmists appeared on his show and the letters “C L_M_T    C H_N_G showed on the board, if one of them wished to buy a vowel, they'd likely ask for a “U”

That’s it for today folks.

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