Didn't write yesterday. I get so tired by the end of the week that I have no energy for thinking or writing. That will soon end and I can rest up for few weeks/months before I figure out what else to do.
I am so thrilled: Obama has taken on Schawrzzenneger: Arnold and his mentor Pete Wilson have been batshit crazy since SEIU snuck in and organizied the IHSS workers the home health aides and got them huge wages from miinum wage to up to $11 an hour. Not exactly the money dreams are built on but it lasts much longer and maybe will pay half the rent here in the Bay Area. These people work for the invalids, the dying, those who would otherwise be institutionalized. These people are often the only company their "employers" get. These people work for their "livable" wage. They do what none of us can or want to. The families of the disabled sometimes quit better paying jobs to stay home and these low wages help but don't replace.
I worry about this because so many of the workers especially the social workers seem outraged that some immigrants get IHSS benefits and hire their family members to care for them. As one SW said they get these benefits and they have no paid a cent in taxes. How to explain that someone has and that often these family members quit paying jobs on the outside in order to take care of Mama or Grandma.
One big reason I have been relieved to retire is the hatefulness developing in working people against those who receive public assistance even though the only ones who receive even enough to survive are the IHSS workers. Social workers, eligiblity workers talk among themselves about the fraud they uncover and they seem so hungry for vengence. I worry that in time people will be manipulated into really hurting these poorer folk.
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