What a bunch of sorry pathetic loosers. To disabled to work so they aren’t leaches but they sure can make it down to the capital to protest.

My dad had polio and was in a wheelchair but still managed (with moms help) to get his butt to work everyday until he retired at 65 and started a small business.

People these days always want something for nothing, always want a better life on the back of someone else, always waiting for their BIG SHIP to arrive full of worthless money.

You know some of us Disabled people do work for a living. Some got cushy jobs but the rest get the stuff you people don’t want to do; typically those with cognitive/behavioral disabilities. There is more than one way to be disabled, many of which one can’t see with the naked eye because it has no outlying mark like a Wheelchair.

I myself am Half-Deaf with near complete hearing loss on one side; have ADHD, Asperger’s (yes Adults can have Autistic Spectrum Disorders still from when they are kids; they don’t go away), and Tourette’s Syndrome.

I work part time for just above minimum wage because the job I have was the only one that would take me? You think the job market is bad for you? Try having what I got and see who will take someone who only looks normal.

So yeah, would the cuts affect? Hell yes! But I’m probably preaching to a bunch of idiots who would rather judge than understand.

You people who are putting down people with disabilities have no idea what these people are saying. They want to remain in their homes, as opposed to going into nursing or group homes and they do want to be productive citizens. A lot of programs such as waivers and PCA’s were cut by the Pawlenty administration. There were major cuts made in their healthcare making basic needs as eyeglasses and dental care unaffordable. They do not want special privileges just the things that people without disabilities take for granted.

My wife is now a quad, we have a monthly spend down of 980 per month through the county, that does no include 700 for me & 2 kids for health care. SSDI does help but county program does not allow her any spending money, leaving me holding all the bills. no more duel income here. If i divorce they put a mom in a home and pay all of it, you tell me how I’m taking all your tax dollars? I struggle to keep her home and not take the easy way out! So this is a important issue with me.

I can not believe how ignorant people are sometimes. I live by these words” Wait until it happens to someone in your family then you will understand”

Not true.
Someone who does nothing but post poorly-spelled insults in news articles is worse.

I want to THANK Pat for the real attention paid to the ISSUE and the PEOPLE involved in today’s action.

People are really not aware of how extensive the proposed cuts are (the Repugs are planning a surprise at the end of the session rather than allowing discussion of the line cuts). Only 91 testimonies were given for what are MASSIVE cuts to all sorts of disabled people and the people who care for them. MASSIVE.

Everyone is ONE accident away from serious disability. While I admit the above example of a working disabled person is truly heroic, some of us CANNOT work. Some would like to work, but the money we get is not to even buy a computer, paper and ink to print a resume (don’t start w/the go to the library stuff either, please) and the cover letters. I am a peer support specialist, they spent thousands training me, but the JOB programs are Cut, cut, cut. What will this state do without crisis lines, friends?

I was so disabled I could not feed myself, let alone cook, shop, And while in Ontario NO ONE suggested I was burden to be ignored. No one took away my metro mobility access, no one took away someone to help me do dishes, wash my hair (I could not do it) or the appliances I needed to help me be just a bit comfortable. Here in Minnesota, where I am from – already meds I need are not covered, appliances I NEED are not covered, I have not had a raise in income since 1986!! yet inflation marches ever forward .. W/o my electricity support, I would not even be able to eat, and much of what I have to eat is really awful, not truly healthy food. There was no “time” to hear my testimony in the HHS committee ! What AM I supposed to DO? I am 62 and have NO family.

This is a complex and disheartening issue of cuts coming down the pike – and the disabled and their families and supports really are taking the cruelest cuts of all. Please join me against the cuts while taxes are evaded by the corporations and uber rich on Sunday, May 22ndl, 2 pm @ the Legislature to stand as a conscience against the cruelty of the cuts.

How sad all ofyou are

GOP is pure evil, plain and simple.

Taking care of individuals in their communities IS fiscally responsible. As others have stated, providing less expensive services in people’s homes will save money in the long term. If the only services available are in expensive institutional settings, then families in crisis will not have an option other than taking “All” because they can’t survive with “nothing” or “too little” in the way of support services. I know; my family has made incredible sacrifices for my son to live at home, but if families like mine can’t get sufficient support services for our disabled individual as we age, what choice is there? Does this country want the majority of our disabled to join the mentally ill (who ARE ALSO disabled) who are already among the homeless forgotten?

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