Patricia Tulley is the Director of the Division of Public Health Services at the NH Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). She recently testified before a New Hampshire House Committee, and I’m unsure how to describe it.
Before we get into that, Ms. Tulley is scheduled to appear before the Executive Council tomorrow (Wednesday, 2/8/23) to ask for more dollars (details below*). Rebuild NH touched on it in an alert we published yesterday: Covid Spending Spree. The wasting of your money on the public health industrial complex, which, as COVID proves, needs some pruning and added oversight. You can find contact information for your Executive Councilor here.
And back to the Tulley testimony.
You can watch it below, but I wanted to highlight two things that pinged my BS meter, beginning at around 3 hours and 30 minutes of a 4-hour hearing.
She says aloud (and I am paraphrasing) that she tries to keep all the accounting below 900,000.00 dollars so they don’t have to come to the budget committee for hearings. This is not anymore surprising that regular Americans limit bank transfers to 500.00 to avoid institutions pinging the IRS, but in both instances, it’s your money. Fudging the line items to keep them under a threshold that exists for the sake of accountability is offensive.
She also calls the inflation-exacerbated bags of fiat money doled out under the false flag of a public health emergency – too many things, not all health-related – as the federal pennies that fell from heaven.
The whole conversation is very cordial, and Tulley insists that federal grants cover the current funding until the end of 2024, but my sense – and it should be yours because this is how bureaucrats think – is that this is a staging process. The goal is to insist these programs are essential and should be funded from the general fund when the pennies from heaven stop.
*To that point, I have it on good authority that Tulley is expected to ask the Executive Council for 2.5 million to continue contact tracing. It is entirely unnecessary. It also violates the State Constitution.
[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.
December 5, 2018
No offense to Patrica, by the way. I get that you are doing her job and seem bubbly about it all (so good on you), but that doesn’t change the cold, hard facts. No matter where it comes from, this is someone else’s money. It comes from the pockets of people under more economic stress from more directions than at any point in their lives. That money isn’t coming from anywhere but their pockets, and increasingly those of generations into yet born. The people are not the only ones who should be cutting corners.
It is up to us to ensure the temps we elect to represent us understand our priorities when career bureaucrats come looking for cash.
The COVID response wanted trillions, and so far, what we’ve gotten for all of that is terrible testing, harmful protocols, intrusive and dangerous mandates, totalitarian edicts (inspiring intolerant mobs), a propaganda camping that hid the truth, and a “cure” that makes you more susceptible to infection, spread, and severe disease. You don’t even reward that. You certainly do not give them more money.
Tulley’s testimony is lengthy, so click this link to jump to hour three and at about 31 minutes to hear the bits I mentioned and more if you have the “constitution” for it, or you can find it in the hearing video below.
