This is a response.
This
viewpoint is simply dishonest. Yes
funds for the needed Veteran’s
Home were cut. But, it is
deceptive to pretend that these fund cuts happened independent of the economic
crisis we all live in. Also cut were schools, police, fire protection,
children’s protective services,
parks, libraries, senior
services, and more. They were all cut because the Republicans, including
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, blocked any tax increases to pay for needed state
resources. When you force a cut of everything, that includes veteran’s homes.
The nation including
California is suffering a severe recession – the worst since the Great
Depression. Twenty Six million are unemployed and under employed.
This crisis was created by finance capital and banking, mostly on Wall Street
,ie. Chase Banks, Bank of America, AIG, and others. Finance capital
produced a $ 2 trillion bailout of the financial industry, the doubling of the
U.S. unemployment rate and the
loss millions of manufacturing
jobs and the tax revenues produced by people at work.
