his explanation Disability Activist Speaks Out
The Governor of California has said that everyone must "share the burden." But I ask you now, why then is the state of California paying Million a year for his security detail? How can he, in good conscience let the state pay many times more for his security than the Governor's salary? What is Arnold Schwarzenegger sacrificing?
Disability Activist Speaks Out
He claims that California's In-Home sustain Services program is ripping the taxpayers off. He has No proof that Ihss is "rampantly" ripping the habitancy of California off! His numbers constantly shift. It's been reported in the Sacramento Bee that the amount 25% came from a description in 2007 that due to inconsistencies in the discrete counties, that group workers in some counties were assigning more hours than the client verily needed, but that is not fraud on the workers or the clients' part! When group Services adopted a unified plan, many habitancy were reassessed with fewer hours, and some with more hours. So the charges of 25% fraud and waste are simply untrue. I have read some reports at discrete newspapers that fraud makes up less than one percent of the Ihss budget.
How dare he needlessly and recklessly endanger our elders and younger habitancy with disabilities lives. Do you think I am exaggerating? For many habitancy who don't have use of their hands, establishment even a simple meal or occasion a microwave evening meal is impossible. The Governor has proposed eliminating meal establishment and feeding. I don't know about you, but if I don't eat, I can't live. So, most verily the elimination of that service will lead to positive death for many. Most habitancy take it for granted that they can urinate whenever they need to. However, some habitancy with severe disabilities need assistance, and as with feeding, need somebody to help with that operation several times a day,. It takes a few minutes to sustain habitancy to use the toilet, or turn a woman's menstruation pad, or to empty a pee bag. Just because habitancy need help in these areas, it does not mean that habitancy need hospital-level care.
Schwarzenegger wants to take us back forty years. He calls us "patients!At first I thought he was just plain ignorant that disabilities are no longer considered strictly medical problems. But as I listened to how he was presenting the issue, I became angry. He is deliberately portraying us as Patients, so he can elaborate putting us into nursing homes. We are not patients, we are human beings; men, women and children. We don't need to be in a medical setting. We just need a helping hand. Nursing homes are the current institutions that the Governor wants to put thousands of my neighbors, friends, and my sisters and brothers in. Why? He told us he knows it Will Cost More! Yet, he is dead set on it. Again, I ask why? In-Home sustain Services Saves the state money. It costs an median of ,300 a year to sustain one Ihss client in the community. It would cost the state ,000 a year to keep that same someone in a nursing home. For each someone he puts a nursing home, he could pay for five or six habitancy to be supported in their own apartments and homes! You do the math.
I don't know if you have ever been in a nursing home, or have visited one, but they are not nice places! They are understaffed, overworked, and have a very, very bad description for unnecessary deaths. In addition a someone loses his relaxation - it's like being in jail, only you have committed no crime.
I have a friend in such a place. In the mid 1970s, she was one of the first habitancy with a severe disability to attend Uc Berkeley. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science. She became active in a woman's writing and carrying out group, and volunteered at a grammar school helping kids learn to read and do math. She lived in an apartment and had attendant care, and her roommate helped with emergencies at night. Her mother helped her too. I was not aware how much her mom was helping her, until her mom died. That was the beginning of a terrible downward spiral for my friend.
Schwarzenegger has also said that everyone is suffering. But I don't see Chevron suffering; in fact they've made a behalf three times over! I think we all know that an oil extraction tax will Never stop companies from drilling for oil! Even his fellow conservatives in Alaska, Texas and other states have realized this, and they went for an oil extraction tax.
I wonder if the Governor is sacrificing anything, or if he thinks this is just someone else role? I was verily pissed off when I read how Schwarzenegger proudly declared that he goes home and enjoys his Jacuzzi and a cigar, and he doesn't feel bad about what he and his cronies are doing to Human Services or education.
How can he perhaps elaborate putting thousands of seniors and habitancy with disabilities into nursing homes? This makes slight sense unless he has a back-room deal with the multi-trillion dollar nursing home industry! It's just not logical or right in any sense! I believe this tough-guy attitude is due to political ambition. So he can say, "Look how I handled the budget!"
His idea of a cuts-only budget can't perhaps be realistic. We still need wage sources. Why is he trying to make the poor bear the brunt of the cuts? perhaps Ihss and other group service departments should Not be funded by the normal fund?!
Since 2003 he has sought to destroy the Lanterman Act that created the Regional Centers, which provide services to habitancy with developmental disabilities such as Autism, Down Syndrome, and cerebral palsy, so he can't use this rotten cheaper as an excuse to undo Ronald Reagan's heritage and promise. perhaps he has not seen the film; Christmas in Purgatory. I urge him and all legislators to do so. We need more sources of revenue, otherwise the elderly and habitancy with disabilities and our children will not be the only ones hurt by this penny-wise, dollar-foolish cuts-only budget.
We know many habitancy are truly suffering due to the financial principles bottoming out, but to recklessly put 340,000 elderly and habitancy with disabilities in danger of verily dying is simply inhumane, and hearkens back to someone else time and someone else man who exterminated half a million habitancy with disabilities.
Last week fifteen of us were arrested for occupying the hallway to the Governor's offices after hours. In response to our action, the Governor ordered metal poles installed in his hallway so that habitancy in wheelchairs can't block his office again. But we echo the words of the Terminator; We'Ll Be Back! Come on Arnold, talk with us! Don't be such a wimp. We will Not go away! We will not be steamrolled or railroaded into nursing homes!
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