IHSS ....IN DEEPER SHIT

"FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES BUT
REMEMBER THEIR NAMES." JFK

aloha 2u,

feeling better, returning to my normal level of misery.
meditating again and soon will return to yoga and maybe walking too.

BACKSTORY
IHSS is a fed/state /local program designed to keep sick
and elderly peeps in thir homes and not strapped to their pissy beds in some nursing home.
FACT peeps live longer at home and tend to die sooner in nursing home.
FACT there are not enuff nursing homes to accommodate
the roughly 400,000 peeps statewide in the program.
FACT ever since i hit s' cruz the state has been robbing the counties of monies used to keep peeps in the program and leaving them with a whores promise of repayment.yeah right.

FACT in good years the tasks of the Advisory Group and county locals is to improve services and accountability and in lean years its just keeping peeps alive.
FACT we hit Lean Years five years ago and now the shit has hit and broken the fan...sigh.

NOW
FACT things have gotten So Bad that last election the general populace passed a Proposition,
no not That kind,to stop the scrotes and screw ups in sacto from ever doing this again.
FACT even with this a letter is going out from sacto to tell all 56 counties in KALIpornia to cut IHSS hours by 3.6% and halt or cut workers wages too.
FACT THIS SHIT WILL KILL PEOPLE!

THINGS COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE EH?
wrong..huge huge fucking sigh.

yesterday the daily fishwrap delivered yet more cheery news
some facelss bean counter in the Census Bureau
has decided,unilaterally, that an area from the tiny pimple of a town .davenport,
on the northern edge of s'cruz county..south to the gang infested environs of salinas,
should be considered one big metro complex ( i.e.super city)
1. this is insane
2. this means massive fedgov cuts in cash allocation..namely
public transit and paratransit, public works projects and IHSS funding,
the majority of which is fedgov dispensed..
THIS SHIT WILL KILL EVEN MORE PEOPLE!!!

HAVE A MEETING LATER TODAY TO DISCUSS 
HOW MANY BODY BAGS WE WILL NEED....SIGH & CRY.

other than that it is bright sunny and cold outside, Soul Mate finally has a diagnosis of what ails her and my new heart doc is giving  me yet more pills and tells me i may be a candidate for STINT CITY a la Cheney and lose weight of course.i went on a new program bout a month ago
NO REFINED SUGARS & NO ENRICHED WHITE FLOUR,
WHOLE GRAINS ONLY YADA YADA.sounds good eh?
I HAVE GAINED 7 Pounds damnit....SIGH.

please have a better day than mine.

namaste y'all
mega