[Boompa]

With half of the elderly in Nursing Homes being paid for by Medicaid cuts to that program could put a million geriatrics out in the street in a state like Florida

[algia]

Here's how you can start FIXING the problem:
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Originally Posted by Boompa

With half of the elderly in Nursing Homes being paid for by Medicaid cuts to that program could put a million geriatrics out in the street in a state like Florida

[Spring Hillian]

This one will tell you about the massachusetts program.

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/massach...-cars-for-poor

Oh, lets not even go to FREE CELL PHONES as well.

Originally Posted by beachmouse

Please provide documentation for current government programs that give poor people free cars. Because that's one I've never heard before.

[Spring Hillian]

Absolutely!

Originally Posted by njguy

Seriously, this is part of reforms which HAVE TO TAKE PLACE.

[beachmouse]

I'm less than thrilled with the car program, but to try to claim that one program in one state nowhere near Florida that involves about 60 vehicles a year is somehow a typical and common social services program is rather dishonest.

[vaughanwilliams]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

That's one year. How about the dozens of years prior to that?

Well,they didn't pay any in 2009, either. I could keep looking, but you get the drift.

http://politisite.com/2010/04/12/gen...taxes-in-2009/

[Spring Hillian]

Must be nice to be a GE stockholder I guess.

Originally Posted by vaughanwilliams

Well,they didn't pay any in 2009, either. I could keep looking, but you get the drift.

http://politisite.com/2010/04/12/gen...taxes-in-2009/

[Bigg Mann]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

Yes I did. Clearly. You must have the answer to the whole problem which would be "Spend spend spend at any cost to the body as a whole". When does it stop? How can it go on? How can a country, a state, a city, spend itself into oblivion before the whole body shuts down and then nobody has anything?

We are talking about cuts, not elimination here. I've had to cut back on my expenditures due to the fact that income only goes so far. How can the State not do the same? Please tell me the answer to that one.

The disabled are Americans too. Americans have to cut back in every aspect of their lives.

Its not an easy pill to swallow, but that pill is going to get a lot bigger and a lot more distasteful if we don't do something about it now.

I am on SSDI and I have cut back in many ways. I don't make 60K plus anymore and live in a 3000sq. ft house, or drive new cars.

So my wife and I moved back to where I grew up in Nebraska from Indiana and live in a 850sq. ft. house and drive 16 yr old cars. I make more than the average but then I made more when I was working. It is still hard and I have to pay 250/mo for physical thearpy that medicare does not.

We have not had a cost of living adjustment for 2 yrs and now none for next yr either. I AM NOT complaining and am greatful for what I get and enjoy the laid back lifestyle that I left 30 yrs ago.

If I got any more cuts it would be hard to make up the differance with my wife's income.

You say we can't afford it, then how can we bomb the heck out of Iraq and go back in and rebuild the infastructure (sp) with no money?

[Boompa]

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[Spring Hillian]

For the record, 46 states have enacted budget cuts that will affect a lot of people in different ways.

46.