Groups rally to oppose LePage budget cuts

[Maine-ah]

Source: BDN

AUGUSTA, Maine — Immigrants, advocates for the elderly and organizations working on behalf of low-income Mainers held a rally Wednesday morning to urge lawmakers to resist Gov. Paul LePage’s latest changes to the proposed 2-year budget.

Speakers criticized LePage administration proposals that would remove roughly 28,000 individuals from the MaineCare rolls, make it more difficult for some families to receive general assistance and reduce funding for programs that help the elderly pay for Medicare programs.

“The net result will be people not going to see their doctor, not taking their prescriptions” and potentially ending up in the emergency room, said Dick Farnsworth, a volunteer with AARP in Maine.

The governor’s latest budget proposal would also limit access to MaineCare, food stamps and other assistance programs to legal immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for less than five years.

Read more: http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/05/11/politics/groups-rally-to-oppose-lepage-budget-cuts/

[No Elephants]

1. Programs that help the elderly pay for Medicare programs

Never heard of those. I guess they are for elderly and disabled who are not entitled to Social Security or whose Social Security is not enough to pay for food, shelter and Medicare. Really stupid for a state to eliminate that program.

Oh, well, it's Maine. With any luck, a cold winter, in combination with cuts to fuel subsidies, will kill the seniors and the disabled quickly, so they won't need medical care. If so, problem solved!

[Iliyah]

2. Didn't the seniors help

bring in the asshole gopers governors and legislators all over the country? Now there are basically being effed, go figure, y'know, "death panels" and Dems taking away Medicare, knowing they were lying and would be doing the same things they blamed the Dems for.

Do I feel bad for the people in the different states that voted for gopers? Nah, but I hope they learned a horrible lesson and in 2012 vote for a party that won't eff them.

[KamaAina]

3. Stick to LePage like glue!