Pick Pocketing the Poor: California's strategy for creating an impoverished population

Well, if your goal, California Governor and Legislators was to create a population of grossly impoverished citizens, you did it!

I hadn't thought of it, taking money from the poor, and pushing it back up the pipes to the sordid business of job creation in California.

Yes, I'm sure that will be highly effective, as the people on the lowest echelon, the people with disabilities (we're useless aren't we), mothers with children, will soon starve or be dislocated because of the cuts.

Then we can use that money we're saving by cutting out health and mental health programs, and give that to law enforcement who will drive off these people as they begin to collect at the local parks and on the streets.

Okay, we take the money from the disabled and poor, create whole new programs to help the poor, but not the way we did it before.

Now we have to get some committees together to figure this problem out. We will need some money for that. And they will need a place to meet and discuss the latest plans on how to deal with the poor. We're going to need a lot of money to figure out how to deal with the most impacted segments of the California population.

Okay, so we've taken away food from a lot of people, and that may satisfy the governor as he does not like the obese. He's rather feverish about it, I'd say.

But with the coming mass dislocation of the poor out onto the streets, we now have a secondary problem: disease.

Oh, yes, you and I both know if you get run down and stressed out, you don't sleep well, or eat right, you're going to get sick.

I would say having your house foreclosed on, and your family in limbo, would be some stress. And if you make it all the way to homelessness, I'd say that would be the most stress of all.

People are going to get sick, and they are going to go to the hospital. So, we have laws which require that California hospitals take patients who cannot pay.

But the hospital's are now taking the brunt of the situation: now they have to struggle with all this bad debt.

Okay, we need another bill, another committee, we need to really spend some money thinking about how to save the hospitals from the uninsured or previously insured through California health plans which have been quashed in the budget battle.

I guess you may have gotten my point, but it's ridiculous.

There are better ways of doing things, so let's try that. (I'm going to start a committee right now...of volunteers who just want to do it right. Not of leeches who bleed this system of all it's power. We're not poor or even in dire straights, we have not been wormed of our parasites and until we do, the game continues to be, take it from the poor. Sad and pathetic.)

California series: Part two: how do we make us better? Hey, we're California, anything goes...