cathidaw
06-02-2010, 12:52 AM
Once again we have problems with one of our largest and expensive new buildings.The Herbert is cutting staff and opening times and may have to resort to charging people to use it when it is open..Also the building is (apparently) shoddily built, with (now) leaking roofs and sagging floors, and doors that don't shut properly.. As for being green -the heat is escaping from all over the building like from a colander and costing the earth to keep even comfortably warm.
I get so angry about this spending as if there is no thought for tomorrow. The new Jerde complex will go ahead although there is no money Once more we have too large a building scheme for the sake of it and not for the sake of the people. -they just borrow more and more at extortionat rates. Our glorious new hospital-massive and state of the art --but never big enough for patients in emergencies, patients are shipped willy nilly around the area, and further. all around the country. The baby units-- why are there never enough special care cots? The place is big enough, and plenty of trained staff willing to get back to work. Too much is spent on buildings and not enough on people.
The goverment sets us a great example I must say.- If you're broke, shut your eyes and borrow, even if you can't pay it back.
We were once taught to cut our coats according the the cloth we had.
One never hears the demeaning words 'hire purchase' nowadays either. The new jolly trend, if the programmes I see on the television are anything to go by, is to pay a little every week-just like that- (say it brightly standing in front of the new sofa/washer/bigger screen wotsit, with kids smiling gaily in the backgroung holding the latest electronic toy)-and have what you want don't wait for it. All those gadgets the kids want, dont make the poor things wait 'til you can afford it- buy them before they grow up deprived and traumatised.
I get so angry about this spending as if there is no thought for tomorrow. The new Jerde complex will go ahead although there is no money Once more we have too large a building scheme for the sake of it and not for the sake of the people. -they just borrow more and more at extortionat rates. Our glorious new hospital-massive and state of the art --but never big enough for patients in emergencies, patients are shipped willy nilly around the area, and further. all around the country. The baby units-- why are there never enough special care cots? The place is big enough, and plenty of trained staff willing to get back to work. Too much is spent on buildings and not enough on people.
The goverment sets us a great example I must say.- If you're broke, shut your eyes and borrow, even if you can't pay it back.
We were once taught to cut our coats according the the cloth we had.
One never hears the demeaning words 'hire purchase' nowadays either. The new jolly trend, if the programmes I see on the television are anything to go by, is to pay a little every week-just like that- (say it brightly standing in front of the new sofa/washer/bigger screen wotsit, with kids smiling gaily in the backgroung holding the latest electronic toy)-and have what you want don't wait for it. All those gadgets the kids want, dont make the poor things wait 'til you can afford it- buy them before they grow up deprived and traumatised.