| Tim Walber is touring his district by Harley these days, supposedly highlighting the high cost of gasoline (personally, I think it's a sign of a mid-life crisis). He stops in to city hall in Marshall long enough to endorse a part-time Congress. "If I had a choice between going to a part-time Congress and a part-time Legislature — which I support — I'd take a part-time Congress," Walberg said. "We would be much better off for that. ... The ability to control your dollars and your priorities would be far more efficient at the state and local levels, and that's how it was originally intended."
Two paragraphs later: Walberg said he'd like to see every hospital equipped with compatible medical data systems. "The differences between systems are so significant that sometimes the cost of trying to integrate different pieces together almost gets to be prohibitive," Williams cautioned. "That's a component of a quote national health care system that I would support," Walberg said.
And, then he goes on to slag a Michigan manufacturer. Matt Davis, a Marshall Realtor and Walberg supporter, noted the room contained a bed made by Stryker Corp. of Kalamazoo. Walberg said he'd had surgery in 2007 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. "I looked at the bed and it said 'Stryker,'" Walberg said. "Bummer."
He could have said that he was proud to have been in a bed made by the nation's best workers, right here in Michigan, in one of the nation's best hospitals. He could have said that. Didn't. |
