Monday, May 15, 2006

Picking the Pockets of the Aged, Disabled - Los Angeles Times


Republicans, at all levels of government, have been pulling this kind of crap for as long as I can remember.

They should be consigned to the deepest recesses of hell.

Picking the Pockets of the Aged, Disabled - Los Angeles Times:

"But this governor's 'values' apparently don't embrace California's 1.2 million aged, blind and disabled who are living on the edge, clinging to government benefits for survival. These are the impoverished folks dependent on federal Supplemental Security Income and the State Supplementary Program. For most, it's their sole source of income.

You wouldn't know by the administration's spin that they're still getting robbed in the governor's latest budget plan.

One day before the budget unveiling, officials leaked that Schwarzenegger was scuttling his draconian proposal, announced in January, to pocket the fed's future SSI cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 15 months, from April 1, 2007, to July 1, 2008. Sacramento would have grabbed the federal funds intended for poor people, roughly $185 million, and used it for state budget-balancing.

Yes, it's legal. An old trick. The state merely reduces its SSP grant to offset the fed's SSI benefit boost."

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