Reply #4: Welllllllllllll, as it turns out, I am an In home Support Service

[Sugarbleus]

Caregiver/employee. Our union: seiu only recently gained a huge raise for us to that 9.50 AND a healthcare benefits package to go with. That was a monumental task they achieved. IHSS paid 4.44 ph for yearrrrrrrrrsssssss with NO benefits at all.

In addition to lower wages for workers, there were plans on cutting out certain recipients of care altogether! Especially those in circumstnaces like mine. I am the care giver to my physically disabled ex husband and I Live in the same dwelling in my own room. I earn less because of it but the arrangement has worked out for both of us for a very long time. Also, the IHSS doesn't pay for certain miriad of services I have provided for my client everyday, week, month, year. No accounting services are paid for, no yard services, no reading services, no typing writing translating, no spring cleaning and painting, no payment for helping to move to another residence...none of this type of stuff...If I were working in the private sector doing this type of work--and it's hard and time consuming--I'd be making some BIG BUCKS!

Another item that just came to our attention yesterday is that the housing/section 8 voucher program that my client uses is trying it's damnedest to find a way to cut him off because I live here (or get me to move out). They want EXPLICIT details of "Why" I need to stay all night long. (??????) I've been with this man for 23 years! He falls down, he gets sick all the time and chokes in the night. He soils himself. He tried suicide once late at night; luckily I was awake and on sight to call 911. Puh lease.....already 'why do I need to spend the night'....geeez

So, begining in Washington, filtering down to the states, The Hammer is begining to slam down on the least of us, your bretheren............. Thanks Arnie, you prig.

PS: My client has made his phone call to Arnie.