January 8, 2010, 8:32 pm
I was reading a Reuters story about the proposed budget in California tonight when I saw this:
Wheelchair-bound Christina Mills, 32, of Sacramento, California said disabled workers could not afford to have subsidies for assistants cut as the governor proposed.
“If they didn’t have home-care workers to help them get dressed in the morning, they wouldn’t be able to go to work.”
Hey Christina – that sucks doesn’t it? It’s sad, but true – if you need someone else to pay for you to get to work, you’re not earning enough to make your job worth the investment in you! It would be cheaper for everyone if you stayed home and we payed to take care of you there. Plus, you wouldn’t be in denial about how much your work is actually worth.
Yes, it’s harsh. But it’s also true.
gk
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July 13, 2009, 6:40 pm
I don’t know why this hasn’t been brought up in any of the California budget news that I’ve seen. The state of California is issuing IOU’s instead of paying people and companies. I’m no lawyer, but that practice obviously (it’s obvious to me anyway) violates the US Constitution. Article I, Section 10, titled “Powers prohibited of States”, states:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Let me summarize it this way – No State is allowed to use anything except US Dollars as payment for anything. They cannot print their own money, they cannot “emit bills of credit” which are IOU’s. Here’s the definition of “bills of credit“: a paper issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the State, and designed to circulate as money.
That’s why California can’t require banks and others to accept them – IOU’s aren’t money and the state is specifically prohibited from using IOU’s as money. I’m guessing that the only reason they’re allowed to do it is that no one has filed a suit to challenge it. Californians want their bread and circuses. Who cares if they are being paid with worthless pieces of paper?
Dumb-asses.
gk
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