"Perdue can't legally shift money in the state budget unless a court order or an emergency requires it, but Delia said she is allowed to use one-time funds to make up for "unforeseen events," such as the imminent closure of group homes because of a budget mistake."

Would that be the mistake where Perdue latched on to 20 million dollars from DHSS to pay for her baby-sitting program?

"There are others within our state and those that come from other countries that are getting a free ride, why can't we provide for our most precious citizens...the elderly?"

We are too busy handing out food stamps, cell phones, and extended unemployment handouts, just to name a few. The dems have little use for the elderly. Most of them have passed their usefulness as tax serfs.

this is nothing but a big money grab just because they can. most of these people in these group homes can bath themselves by themselves anyway. this is not a group home of very low functioning adults that need assistance every moment of the day. those people are in nursing home care.

There are others within our state and those that come from other countries that are getting a free ride, why can't we provide for our most precious citizens...the elderly?

djofraleigh "...passing it on to the Republican legislature, who can blame Bev for handing this problem on to them -- inheritance."

I agree; and it's very simliar to what Mr. Bush and the conservative powers handed to Obama in 2008....hard hand to be dealt, that inheritance thing.

Are you serious? Why are we closing Dix Hospital? Put these folks in there!!!...It gives people jobs and keeps the mentally ill off the dang streets. The government or the state can monitor it close enough ?...no? Not every mentally ill person is a cutie rocking with a teddy bear and not every old person bakes cookies. Some people are violent, nasty, deviant and not what anyone needs at home. Sign the person over as a ward of the state put them in Dix. simple.

"The federal government is pulling 40 percent of its funding from adult care facilities under new Medicaid rules.

DHHS requested a waiver from the federal government that would prevent Alzheimer's patients from losing Medicaid benefits, but it was denied last week."

There is the problem, trickle down pain from the healthcare laws passed on high.

I can't help but sit here and cry myself into tears as I worry about my mother.

It’s difficult for one individual to take care of someone by themselves. -- comment

Who is responsible for an elderly, disabled person? The family has the choice to step in, but can't be held responsible. The government has taken on that burden. Trouble is, the government is an uncaring, bureaucratic system. Let this be a warning to us all.

Ho, ho, ho ....Bev has not fixed this since March, and is passing it on to the Republican legislature, who can blame Bev for handing this problem on to them -- inheritance.

"Not true. You are just bitter that President Obama is still in the White House and cannot except the way people voted. Maybe next time it will be your way. But for now, he is there for 4 years."

That doesn't change the fact that Obamacare is a horrible piece of legislation and a huge blow to liberty.

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