Cuts Will Cost Us
by David Mulvey
Service Coordinator, Tri-Counties Regional Center
The California budget crisis cannot and should not be solved by denying health care to our children and critical services to the elderly and disabled.
Cuts currently proposed by the governor to health and human services programs will end up costing the state more money in the long-run because people who are denied care will end up with more serious conditions that incur further -- and more expensive -- costs.
Meanwhile, corporations got a huge multibillion-dollar tax break just this year. Maybe I'm missing something, but how can we take health care from children and put seniors and others at risk of losing their homes while at the same time handing billions to profitable corporations that don't need the money?
Everybody understands the budget crisis is overwhelming. But we can't lose our humanity in this. After all, that's what this state is built on.
We need to find a balanced budget solution that includes responsible cuts with new revenues, including joining every other oil-producing state in imposing a tax on profits from the extraction of our state's oil.
Who ever is cutting the budget though education, health, human services programs is out of there minds. This would cause alot of homes to be lost, it would cause death to people who need health care and if you cut education there will be 1000% more crime on the streets. If you don't have have good education only thing your going to do is rob,steal, sell drugs which leads to murder and other ungodley crimes. The state of california is out of control now and there is not enough law enforcement to control it. Start oil drilling off the coast there is alot of oil out there I know it was being done in the sixties and was stoped. You have been cutting health, education and human services for years, how about cutting welfare people still collect formore then one family, this because you have no control over anything to save the buget from crisis.