Good Riddance to Criminal, Snit-Throwing Corporations

I have to give Extendicare Health Services credit: not many corporations hve the balls to come right out and admit they are leaving the state because the General Assembly won't give them a free pass to physically assault helpless old people.

Valerie Honeycutt-Spears at the Herald:

A major nursing home chain said it no longer will operate in Kentucky because of increased litigation and the 2012 General Assembly's failure to pass a law making it more difficult to file lawsuits against nursing homes.

Extendicare Health Services Inc. has entered into an agreement to lease all 21 of its skilled nursing centers in Kentucky — representing 1,762 beds — to an unidentified long-term care operator based in Texas. Extendicare is based in Ontario, Canada, with U.S. headquarters in Milwaukee.

The Kentucky facilities include two in Richmond and one each in Irvine, Stanton, Somerset and Salyersville.

Three nurse's aides at Richmond Health and Rehabilitation, also known as Madison Manor, pleaded guilty to abuse of an adult after being caught on a hidden video camera abusing an elderly resident in 2008. By 2010, all three had initially received diverted sentences.

This is the state-level version of the national temper tantrum thrown by the Facebook founder renouncing American citizenship in order to avoid paying 15 percent in taxes on his hundreds of billions of dollars in work-free profits from the IPO, and Wall Streeters screaming and stamping their tiny feet because we 99 percenters aren't prostate in gratitude for them fucking us over and stealing all our money.

You know the real reason why the Masters of the Universe will never carry through on their threats to Go Galt? Because they know as soon as they depart, we're going to find out that not only can we get along without them, but that we are better off without them.

Fuck 'em. Corporations can follow the rules, or they can get the fuck out. And stay the fuck out.