Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS), southeastern Vermont’s community mental-health agency, is pleased to announce the appointment of seven new professionals whose talents will augment HCRS’ services.
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HCRS announces new staff members | December 19, 2017 SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS), southeastern Vermont’s community mental-health agency, is pleased to announce the appointment of seven new professionals whose talents will augment HCRS’ services in the Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, Newfane and Springfield regions. As they appear in the photo, HCRS welcomes the following new employees (from left): Tammy Morse-O’Neil, CFS driver in Brattleboro, Alex Reiss, respite provider in Springfield, Julia Stifler, school-based clinician in Newfane, Amanda Beckwith, Children’s OP clinician in Brattleboro, Bambi Howe, residential specialist in Bellows Falls, Erin Todd, residential specialist in Bellows Falls and Chloe Benson, residential specialist in Bellows Falls.
I sure hope that there is some people getting fired or quitting, all I see is taxes going up. Nothing but a big tax boondoggle going on here, way does no one else see it. Look at the building, nicest building in town, look at all the nice cars in the parking lot. I don't wish ill on anyone there, but it's all tax dollars with no return and only helps a very limited amount of people, a very small percentage. Wish the state would build our schools this nice.
ReplyDeleteWell, the House of Representatives just passed a tax bill that cuts taxes on the top 0.1% by 1 percent. This means that 111,000 households are going to receive about $139 billion every year!
ReplyDeleteWe could rebuild every public school in the country for only $500 billion--and they'd be good for decades.
Thanks, Congress!
Those 0.1% are the best and brightest, and they do so much for society by creating jobs and stuff. They have everyone's best interests at heart and invest their money wisely for the good of all. Don't worry, they'll take care of everything. The next step is to solve the deficit by cutting silly entitlements, like social security and medicare.
ReplyDeletehilarious. The best and brightest have already come out and said that they will pocket those tax cuts. Don't be so naive. The trickle down effect, that the rich will throw peanuts to the poor, is laughable. Wake up! This isn't the 80's. You honestly think they have our best interest at heart? That blind, brainwashed mindset likens you to livestock, sheep; we'll call those that hold that perspective sheeple.
DeleteYes Philip you are correct, the 1% create this economy we all get to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteNow it we could get the bottom 40% to get a job, or at least if drawing welfare to be drug tested and kept off drugs and the ones that are able get a job. Quit turning down low paying jobs because our government pays them more to sit on there a@@.
But from what I read, most people will get a tax cut, but again most people don't pay any fed or state taxes anyway.
I didn't know that Mitt Rmoney and Donald Trump were in the bottom 40%. Rmoney didn't pay a dime in taxes for a decade before he ran for president, and Trump bragged about how smart he was for doing the same! Takers, not makers, both of them....
DeleteYes, half of all Americans don't pay federal taxes. Know why? Except for a few 1%ers who have good tax lawyers, HALF THE COUNTRY IS POOR! I believe we are sandwiched in between Kazakstan and Uganda in terms on wealth inequality. THESE ARE THIRD-WORLD NATIONS, FOLKS! How bad does it have to get before people wake up and realize that supply-side economics is bankrupting this country?
DeleteAmazing how my comment was about the boondoggle which is HCRS was spun to taxes on the 1% which pay for the legislators in VT to be able to pay for and hide this Boondoggle anyway.
ReplyDeleteJust think, one of those seven could some day collect a 650000 dollar retirement bonus. Keep up the good work. Shoot for CEO.
ReplyDeletethis is what we get when we vote for "efficient government." Instead of using our tax money to pay civil service professionals to do a job and retire decades later with a defined benefit pension that we can afford, we vote to have the private sector do this work "more efficiently."
ReplyDeleteExcept that isn't how it turns out. Motivated by profit, the private sector overcharges and underserves wherever it can get away with it. It will skimp on quality control in hiring (I once met a Visiting Nurse who didn't believe in immunizing children), will do whatever it can to keep labor costs low (thus losing the best and brightest of its hires to better employment opportunities) and create opportunities where possible to suck more money out of the government (such as the $1.8 million of our money that went illegally to fund an out-of-state operation) and operate with a corporate structure that is designed to enrich the CEO rather than employ properly-rewarded employees to provide first-class service to its entire client base.
Contrast this with state civil service which screens applicants for suitability, provides employees and management with a roadmap of what will be expected of them and what they can expect for working conditions and benefits, is deterred from wage theft and employee abuse by the presence of an employees' union, is contractually bound to provide benefits every Vermont employee ought to have, and is accountable to the public, not a board of directors, for its work.
Of course, there will still be taxpayers who will prefer "efficient government," like those in Florida who saw Rick Scott's hospital chain rip off Medicare for $84 billion.
Chuck if the government ran the private sector, we would be N Korea, without the private sector and the people who take chances and start companies, run those companies the way they see fit and pay themselves the way they see fit, and even go public the way they see fit, again we would ne N Korea or a third world country, you should thank the people who run these companies for keeping America where it is, America is about to become great again.
ReplyDeleteRoger, the people who started those companies and the people who now run those countries are not the same sort of people, generally speaking. Thomas Edison was the founder of the company that became General Electric. GE is now basically a financial company. I could go on, but the point is, what you describe is ancient history that the GOP wants you to believe is still operative.
DeleteNewsflash Roger: WE ARE NORTH KOREA! A rogue nuclear nation run by a mad dictator! Another Newsflash: This country IS being run as the corporations "see fit." That's why America is only slightly better than UGANDA in terms of income inequality! And you think that makes us "great?"
DeleteThat is such a Defamation of our contry, we are no where close, you should really get help... we are free to choose what we want how we live, and just because you don't like todays President, your comments do no good and are so off base they have no meaning at all.
DeleteReally Roger? The FACT that we are only slightly better than Uganda is meaningless to you? Another Newsflash: We, as a nation, are behind the rest of the civilized world, and much of the UNCIVILIZED world, in nearly every standard that can be measured. Unless you want to count illiteracy, obesity, and opioid consumption, WHERE WE LEAD. What you see as defamation, the rest of us know as reality. America is going down the toilet, and the GOP is flushing as hard as it can. We may not be North Korea yet, but we are heading there in a big hurry. Trump's constant DEFAMATION of free speech, the free press, and our system of justice are EXACTLY what third-world dictators do, just before they eliminate democracy itself. But hey, who needs democracy when next week you'll have an extra TEN WHOLE DOLLARS in your paycheck, WOOHOO!
DeleteHey you new employees, first things first, Christmas Party!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe place is shady. Ive worked there for over 5 years. Money is hidden, time spent with clients is buffered to show the state that more money is needed. The ongoing joke was that EVERYTHING is billable if you think about a client while doing it.
ReplyDeleteThey had a company come in and build an employee lounge that I never saw being used. The money spent was crazy.
When it is voting time they try to guilt people into getting signatures at Riverside.
Employees come and go as they please. Have you seen the parking lot on Friday afternoons?
Lol I work there and know what you mean. On Fridays I leave for lunch around 11 and usually don't go back. I never get caught because my supervisor works in Springfield and in Hartford.
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