Governor Proposals Sweeping Cuts To Health and Human Service Programs

This is a very well written article. Thanks.
I have been following the crisis for weeks now. I fear that my SSI/SSP will eventually be cut down to nothing. There are thousands of us who live well below the poverty line now because of our disabilities. At 60, I have worked most of my life and paid my taxes but I can't work anymore.
I was born and grew up in Northern Cali and can't hardly afford a small room in San Diego, where I have lived 8 years. Because of the lawmakers insensitivity, people/families will be living in their cars and on the streets. What was once a great State has been ruined and buried in debt by the hands of all who have been our decision makers. I am discusted and saddened by the whole mess!

This is a very well written article. Thanks.
I have been following the crisis for weeks now. I fear that my SSI/SSP will eventually be cut down to nothing. There are thousands of us who live well below the poverty line now because of our disabilities. At 60, I have worked most of my life and paid my taxes but I can't work anymore.
I was born and grew up in Northern Cali and can't hardly afford a small room in San Diego, where I have lived 8 years. Because of the lawmakers insensitivity, people/families will be living in their cars and on the streets. What was once a great State has been ruined and buried in debt by the hands of all who have been our decision makers. I am discusted and saddened by the whole mess!

This is a very well written article. Thanks.
I have been following the crisis for weeks now. I fear that my SSI/SSP will eventually be cut down to nothing. There are thousands of us who live well below the poverty line now because of our disabilities. At 60, I have worked most of my life and paid my taxes but I can't work anymore.
I was born and grew up in Northern Cali and can't hardly afford a small room in San Diego, where I have lived 8 years. Because of the lawmakers insensitivity, people/families will be living in their cars and on the streets. What was once a great State has been ruined and buried in debt by the hands of all who have been our decision makers. I am discusted and saddened by the whole mess!

I still don't feel it is right they way the governor is insisting on balancing the budget on the backs of the poor.
He doesn't want to tax oil or tobacco just cut all the programs that help children-unemployed-and our elderly-disabled citizens-especially our senior citizens.
He has slashed the s.s.i payments to the elder twice already this year and wants to slash even more.
He has denied low income sr citizens a tax credit for this year.
He took back the increase in the payments to the blind and disabled but doesn't want to raise any taxes for oil and tobacco.
I can only say that the democrats are right in defending the poor and down troden because in so doing they are following the bible where Jesus said." for comforting not the least of mine, yea have failed to comfort me>"
The governor is luckywhen he says he goes home and has his cigar and his sauna because there are many people who don't even have a job or a place to live-and many people go hungry evey day in our state.
But I guess since he isn't running for any political position he just doesn't care.

I still don't feel it is right they way the governor is insisting on balancing the budget on the backs of the poor.
He doesn't want to tax oil or tobacco just cut all the programs that help children-unemployed-and our elderly-disabled citizens-especially our senior citizens.
He has slashed the s.s.i payments to the elder twice already this year and wants to slash even more.
He has denied low income sr citizens a tax credit for this year.
He took back the increase in the payments to the blind and disabled but doesn't want to raise any taxes for oil and tobacco.
I can only say that the democrats are right in defending the poor and down troden because in so doing they are following the bible where Jesus said." for comforting not the least of mine, yea have failed to comfort me>"
The governor is luckywhen he says he goes home and has his cigar and his sauna because there are many people who don't even have a job or a place to live-and many people go hungry evey day in our state.
But I guess since he isn't running for any political position he just doesn't care.

From the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-illegal10-2009jul10,0,3398621.story

Godinez, a 43-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant, left an abusive family and lives in transitional housing. Four of her five children are citizens and receive a total of about $650 each month from the state's CalWorks program. She also receives about $500 in federal food stamps and other vouchers.

Multiply by a million, give or take. There you have it.

Guess what Erik--her children are citizens, there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Pick a real issue.

The main point, Doug, is that we can predict the consequences of our future actions by reflecting the consequences of our past actions. The actions relevant to this matter are border security, immigration enforcement, Senator Feinstein's AgJobs bill, and amnesty bills being considered by congress. All of the foregoing are very real issues. And we can do something about them.
Reflecting on the past, I conclude that immigration related actions by congress in 1965 (Hart, Cellers, Ted Kennedy, et al)and in 1986 (Simpson, Mazzoli, Dan Lungren, Robert K. Dornan, et al), (a) greatly increased the number of people dependent on government welfare, (b)contributed significantly to California's budget problems, and (c) further burdened this country's infrastructure and resources.
We need fewer immigrants in general, and it would be well if those few were very bright and reasonably wealthy.
As to doing anything - some of us are sufficiently realistic to see the downside of unrestricted immigration, astute enough to understand the Democrats' interest in creating a Patron Client state in which they are the patrons and the poor are the clients, perceptive enough to understand the Republicans' motives in bringing in cheap labor to pay off their business masters, and we have done something. In 2006 we stopped the 2006 Kennedy-McCain Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.
Every day, thousands of people are starting to realize the downside of unrestricted immigration, and taking action.
By the way, every day thousands of people are starting to realize the deep divisions and increasing polarization on a number of issues, including health care, housing policies, regulation (or not) of the financial industry, taxes, etc. The comments posted in this forum illustrate this polarization.

No doubt immigration is among the many issues that need to be solved, but do you solve it by depriving the blind, elderly or the disabled??????????

No doubt immigration is among the many issues that need to be solved, but do you solve it by depriving the blind, elderly or the disabled??????????

No, Mala. Quite the opposite. You help the blind, elderly and disabled by limiting immigration to the best and brightest - those who are able to provide for themselves, and some others, including the blind, elderly and disabled.
If the people of this nation, of which California is a large part, had not voted for open borders, California would not have been flooded with third world poor and the resultant enormous burden of those poor, and their children.
Several million immigrants have contributed 2,237,962 students from low income families to California's over stressed school systems. Look it up at http://www.nccp.org/profiles/CA_profile_6.html
They have also contributed to the problem of crime. Look it up:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=403
Thus, while incarceration rates are found to be extraordinarily low among immigrants, they are also seen to rise rapidly by the second generation. Except for the Chinese and Filipinos, the [crime] rates of all US-born Latin American and Asian groups exceed that of the referent group of non-Hispanic white natives.

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