Half a million here, half a million there

In Estes Park, $500,000 is the new $20.  You know how you used to give your kid a $20 allowance for movies or a candy bar after school.  Now we give our kids $500,000.  We give Anne Morris $500,000 in FOSH money to squander on crayon drawings.  We spot our local hospital $500,000 (while hospitals across the nation are swimming in funds, when they would have to be wildly incompetent not to lose the money thrown at them by the federal government, we are losing money) to put an urgent care facility next to a Jimmy John's.  Hey, you blood glucose is wildly out of control, here's some Humalog and a 20% off coupon for a bacon turkey sub, freaky fast.

Actually we taxpayers generously spotted the hospital an extra $51,000 on top of their built-in annual $500,000 loss.  That was to pay for all the fresh fruit at the monthly meetings, where a five-member board in charge of a failing, money-losing, inefficient, high staff turnover hospital sets the course not just for the hospital, but of the entire town (workforce housing, broadband), because, hey, why not turn over the keys of governance to those who demonstrate an established track record of losing (losing health care providers, losing money, losing the directive from Colorado voters for dignity in dying)?  Plus, on top of it, we get a Jimmy John's.