Posted on 06/08/2009 11:10:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sacramento -- There is more pain ahead for elderly, disabled and poor Californians.
Schwarzenegger has proposed reducing caregiver pay under the In Home Support Services program -- used by 446,000 Californians with disabilities -- from a maximum of $10.10 per hour (including benefits) to $8.60. That will make it tougher to find help.
"I expect suicides, premature deaths, a horrible disruption of the social fabric. . . . We're headed toward market-based social Darwinism where only the fittest will survive."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
John and Ken (KFI 640 AM) read, for half an hour with ONE commercial break, all of the titles of all of the California state offices and departments. A few were necessary (police, fire, etc). The rest sounded like a jumble of redundancies and do-gooder bureaus that have nothing doing in the public sector.
Beat me out by a DOZEN people!
It is a shame, but had the system not been so grossly abused there would be plenty to care for the truly needy. The idea of welfare for those who choose not to work is ridiculous.
“I see that the age-old Firemen First extortion is alive and well.” Right, as usual cops and firemen are used as human shields for massive tax increases.
The only question is whether 0bama bails us out. I believe he will b/c he can’t afford to have the rest of the Nation see what will be the end-result of his policies. The upside to this bailout of CA is that hopefully enough people in other states will be so POed that 0bama will get clobbered in ‘12.
Mass hysteria!!!
Never going to happen.
Thanks, I was not sure how to spell Inuit so just put in Arab.
The Arabs put their elderly on ICE FLOWS?
Just going to encourage the importation of more illegals - it is hard to call $8/hour a living wage. Then there is the overhead charged by the agencies, usually something like the hourly wage itself - don’t know how much is cost and how much profit. How big a cut are the agencies expected totake.
Mostly, they go to nursing homes.
I wouldn't call it a scam necessarily. If the family member had to quit a job to take care of the relative, then it may be less expensive to give some income to that family member than to move the individual into a nursing home or something like that.
lol! Inuit is the proper name for Eskimos, just so you know. Blind Fremen in the book Dune would be sent out to wander the endless desert of Arrakis, so maybe there is some sort of similar activity for Muslims in the deep desert regions.
Me either, but there are few safeguards in place to avoid fraud and the caregivers are protected by the powerful SEIU public employee union.
“”I expect suicides, premature deaths,...”
Hyperbole much?
The only trouble is if he bails out kullyfornia, there are forty other states running deficits that will line up. What will the states that are not in deficit think of that? THAT is something that will bring the talk of splitting up the union right back front and center. And we’ve already seen that when obumma bails someone out he feels he owns they @ss. You think we lack federalism now, wait till that man thinks he’s the dictator of kullyfohnia.
The “Arabs” are the ones who do that huh?
I’d heard rumors but wasn’t sure.
No no no
Arabs, desert
Eskimos, ice floe
Californians, recycle bin
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