URINE or You're Out!

Recently I was randomly selected two weeks in a row to provide a urine specimen for employee drug screening at Southeastern Arizona Medical Center. I willingly provided them and of course passed their scrutiny--to refuse is an automatic dismissal from employment. Then I watched as the Welfare Wonder patients reported night after night in every imaginable state of drug and alcohol intoxication for their free medical care, while I am informed by my place of employment that my own medical benefits will be reduced at the very place I work. The reason given by the administration for cutting my benefits is that SAMC can't pay for everyone's health care so the ones that are working at SAMC for their income (to provide care for the health of the community) will have their benefits reduced to pay for the community's health care needs. That my friends is Socialism in a nutshell. The pending Socialism is further demonstrated by the wage and hour cuts at SAMC that will serve to reduce the cost of service to the community and increase the workload of the medical care providers. More work and less money, all to provide for those who will not work, and will not even be providing a urine drug screen to collect their unearned benefits. I must not be a very good person because I do not feel rewarded and benevolent for my sacrifice. I feel frustrated, angry, betrayed, and disgusted. I no longer have an incentive to work, or provide care for the community, and I question the value of my lifetime dedication and professionalism. I have been told I have less value that those I serve so what is the point? That my friends is the road we now travel, and it looks mighty rough ahead. - Rogue