Columnist: CA budget cuts will end up costing taxpayers more
June 23rd, 2009Writing in the Contra Costa Times, columnist Kate Scannell says Gov. Schwarzenegger’s plan to cut services to people with disabilities will only create bigger and more costly problems.
Clearly, any state budget cut is going to hurt some cause or group of people. But it must be recognized that some of the most vulnerable and defenseless Californians – those with mental and physical impairments – are being pushed to the front line, closest to the state’s swinging machete.
Still the proverbial “bottom line” remains – cuts to these cost-saving programs make no fiscal sense.
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