Toddler Raises Specter of Death

Nothing like pandering:

• On Tuesday Cook County Board President Todd Stroger argued he's certain that the board's successful slashing of the county's unpopular sales tax actually could put people's lives on the line with fewer dollars being funneled into the county's health and hospital system serving the poor and uninsured.

  "Some people will die needlessly for lack of access to the health care our system provides today," Stroger said, in the heat of his losing battle.

Why don't you stop treating people from out of the county, out of the state and out of the nation? That will save over $50 million per year - almost a quarter of the $195 million just cut from the budget.

Then knock off a few of the 20 or so cousins making six-figures as middle managers.