"Our governor came into office shouting that he would smash all the
boxes (ie. social programs). Now he is being called on his most
recent "smashing" program. He is actually advocating spending
$41.6 million to detect fraud -- not in banks or oil companies --
but he proposes to purchase state-of-the-art cameras to photograph
and then fingerprint hundreds of thousands of Homecare Workers who
care for the low-income disabled and elderly at 1/5th the cost of
nursing homes.
Why? Because he said that there was rampant fraud among 25% of
the program. But an investigation documented only 1%.
Well, finally someone in Sacramento is asking the right questions.
Assemblyman Wes Chesbro is saying that the Schwarzenegger administration
has "yet to identify to us the problem they're trying to solve, or
that it provides any kind of solution -- in the absence of that
evidence or information, it's a waste of $41.6 million in taxpayer
money."
Another study showed that reducing the IHSS (In-Homes Support Services)
services will cost more in the long-run. California could save
$300 million per year if it transitioned 1/3 of nursing facility
residents back to the community.
Time to look for a new governor that analyzes our states' needs
based on serious studies and not on impulses to smash the poor!
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Capitola"
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