State budgets crushing disabled
The economy has slowly made it impossible for states to take care of the disabled. With so many people out of work, states are not bringing in money like they were before the recession. Income taxes have gone down drastically as well as non payment of property taxes. California is one of the hardest hit states having to lay off large numbers of state workers and trying to figure out how to pay for police and ambulance coverage. As part of the efforts to balance the budget in California, the house and senate have decided to drop a program for low income disabled people to get helpers which keep them out of expensive nursing homes. This program allowed the disabled to hire helpers to clean their home, help them to move around and to go shopping. Now those disabled people are trying to figure out how they can stay at home without this aid. (Source: Mercury News)
It is truly sad that we can no longer help the disabled to stay in their own homes and have a life without nursing homes or group homes. While the federal government created a stimulus package at the beginning of the year, it has had little effect. People are still losing their job in record numbers and the states are trying to work with smaller and smaller budgets because of fewer workers. The federal government needs to create another stimulus package aimed at getting the middle class back to work so they can pay their taxes and provide for their families again. Until we do something to turn around the economy, we are going to be in a country that cannot provide for itself or for those that made it great.
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