91 arrested in disability rights protest
April 28th, 2009
From the ABC News “Political Punch” blog, Associated Press/USA Today, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal Photo Journal:
U.S. Park Police arrested 91 demonstrators in front of the White House yesterday, including some in wheelchairs who chained themselves to the fence. They were protesting what they said was the Obama administration’s failure to honor its campaign promises to support the Community Choice Act.
The measure would provide people with disabilities and older Americans the option to use federal funding for community-based attendant services instead of just for nursing homes.
(Photo from the Wall Street Journal)
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May 24th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
They did the same here in Michigan, diverting funds to balance the state budget. To the tune of $1B in Medicaid monies this budget year, and $1.2 billion next year. It’s disgraceful that states are allowed to do this with the extra stimulus money…why isn’t the Obama Administration putting a stop to this practice of “detargeting” the stimulus from it’s general purpose of job creation?
There is a report from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Detargeting the stimulus. google it and you should find the report..I don’t remember if California was one of the states in the report.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:37 am
The Obama Administration has also reversed itself on allowing the California state government to make drastic cuts in wages of attendants for people with disabilities, in spite of the state accepting billions in federal stimulus money supposed to be used to save jobs in the state. Following the Special Election on Tuesday, in which voters turned down spurious attempts to balance the budget, the emboldened Schwarzenegger administration plans even more drastic cuts which will balance the state budget on the backs of disabled Californians. “Tax increases are off the table,” says the governor.