. . ý,%l ,, i s# i ii4' lealthC7 couneil learns Ruddy plans before cabmnet The Durham Regional District Health Coundil has learned that its request for fundlng for expansion of the Dr. J.O. Ruddy General Hospital la now before the Ontario cabinet. The bealth council learned that the request also made for the Ajax- Pickering General Hospital, was being con- sidered at its meeting iast Thursday night. The area planning co- ordinator for the minlstry of health, Earl Coulson, told the healtb couindil, "We met with the minister (Dennis limbreil) on this and he's qulte syînpatbetic wlth the number one priorlty.tp The number one priority 0f the health council la a recomnmen- dation that 18 long terni- care bedi at the Ajax- Pickering Generai Hospital be transferred to the Dr. J.O. Ruddy General Hospital. This move would open up tUme beds in Ajax- Pickering facillty for active care. The health council and the Ruddy board of governors also want that facillty's currently unused second floor opened for a 32-bed long term care program. During a hospital role study conducted by the, bealth council earlier Mai year, these recom- mendations were at the top of the list. "T1[his particular piper in one of the mlnister's top priorities," Coulson said af the role study. One of its attractive points la that it will not reuire the spendlng of a great deal af money - only about *50,000 in capital expenses and $1.5 million a year in operating expenses. Wbile Coulson delilned to say when a decision would be han- ded down, he dld say that plans for two pro- posed bospitals in the north end of Toronto would not affect plane expansions in Durhamn Region. To understand is to achieve. Anon. We are on a merry go round and it seerns im- possible to get off . Do you remember the song of tbe thirties, "The music goes around and around and cornes out here"? Cornes out where and bow do we &et off ? Most of the current problems have been creeping up on us and it bas been very bard for many to see the impending danger or to face reality. One of the biggest factors may be that some people do not take responsiblity for their own actions and dire conse- quences are the result. We are over governed from ail leveis of govern- ment and the bureaucracy becomes larger, un- wieldly and alznost uncontrollable. We have aliowed this to happen and to a certain extent we have asked for it. So wben governrnent steps in something is given but on the other hand something is taken away. We are catered to and pampered, co-axed and seduced by advertising, financial establishmnents and so on to tbe point of no return. Sorne people are unable to resist the corne on and find they are unable to cope. At this point, someone or sornetbing has to corne to the rescue and at this tirne it is generally the government wbich means we the people, the taxpayers. So rnany things corne to mind and today I have one thought on band which troubles me and con- founds me along these lines. Friends of ours bave "lost" a child, a daughter of sixteen who has run away frorn home. Lost, I would tbink to welf are but, of course, we do not know. Tbis youngster I know well and she is flot stupid but apparently cornpletely irresponsible. Arn I right to say any person frorn age 16 can pro- cure welfare if they can show a need? The need could be want of freedom, too rnucb parental authority and s0 on. No doubt, some young people realize they would be better out of the home and on their own. In these cases, I think they would cope on their own is possible without governrnentaid. There seem to be parents who have littie parenting ability or choose not to use it whatever small amount they may have. This type of welfare, this kind of "help" is pro- rnoting and helping to create problerns. The thoughtless ones might tbink twice before facing the world without financial help. There are so many areas of governrnent which in- terfere with people's lives, too numerous to men- tion. Social work, sorne very good but some I think terrible, encompasses a vast area of present day life. Problerns can be accentuated greatly if taken out of an individual's bands and in the case of children out of the parent's hands. So we have runaway cbildren in rather large num- bers, runaway inflation and the same problem with rnortgage rates. A concern for many in the case & rnortgage rates and a beartbreak too. For those who have labored long and hard, denied themselves to buy a home to be caught in this tangle mnust be a desperate thing. No one bas -the "God-gîven" right to own a house as we are given to think by advertising and the media. Before home ownersbip becomes possible rnaybe we could say one bas to earn it. Everyone, of course, bas the right to a borne but to what degree depends on what one can afford. To step into sornething way over your bead courts disaster and this is happening at a great rate, I bear. The old rule of thumb, don't buy unless you can afford it still applies; maybe now more than ever. Many of us are concerned about bailing these people out. WiIl it be tbe old timers who felt they were secure because they had provided well for themselves? 0f course, it wiil and it wiil include al of us, anyone who pays taxes. I don't think this is just or right. Ail of us need and want to hielp the un- fortunat;%this hs alwaysbeehn aay ou f life. least half-way up. 1 suppose the wise ones are aiways prepared for any eventuaiity of emergency. To bave followed Dodge. Hwy. 12 and 7lA WHITBY FREE'-PRESS , WffEDiA.SEPTEÊmBER 30, 1981, PAGE 9, events in the past few years ail over the world was a good indicator of things going awry. Our economy is flot solely controiled within our own country and bas to be linked with the economy of other nations, because of the international monetary system involving trade and commerce. A complex and confusing issue for many and litf.*e un- derstood. An interaction of great complexity. To say that interest rates can be controiled by any one governrnent of any one nation oversimplifies the question. Those who have money to invest, be it an individual, corporation or governnient, will seek a source of investment which will give the best return without regard to international boundaries. Likewîse those wishing to borrow will look for the best deal and here again this is not determined by political boundaries. The net resuit of a differential of interest rates between countries together with fluctuating ex- change rates controls very subst.antially the intlow and outflow of international investment and the lat- ter can be very damaging to the economy. 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