I recently read that a the major trauma center for teh Watts neighborhood of LA was closing for lack of funds. Once the trauma center is gone, injured people will have to be taken to hospitals which are farther away, and presumably more people will die.

If only that trauma center were in Alaska - were it in the Last Frontier not only would the trauma center be kept open, but I'm sure Ted Stevens would find a way to expand it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/politics/21spend.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Highlights

-- Per capita federal spending in Alaska is $ 12,000 a year, double the national average.

-- In the recent spending bill there are 11,772 earmarked special projects for Alaska, for a total of $15,780,623,000. That is about 4 percent of the overall spending in the bill.

- posted by jsbennett70 @ 7:33 AM