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    President Obama to California: Drop dead S.D.U.T.

    San DiegoUnion-Tribune Editorial

    The SEIU payoff


    President Obama to California: Drop dead

    2:00 a.m. May 12, 2009

    California has immense fiscal problems. That's not exactly news, but this is: President Barack Obama could soon make these problems far worse.

    The background: In February, as part of overall spending cuts, the Legislature lowered – from $12.10 per hour to $10.10 – the state's maximum contribution to the pay of 300,000 unionized In Home Supportive Services health workers. This saved $74 million.

    Most state employees were also subject to pay cuts. But after an April 15 conference call involving Obama administration officials, aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and representatives of the Service Employees International Union, the White House threatened to withhold $6.8 billion in federal stimulus funds unless the Legislature and the governor canceled the home health workers' pay cut before it begins on July 1.

    The ostensible reason is an inventive reading of language restricting how stimulus money can be used. A more plausible reason is the SEIU's political clout. It gave $33 million to the Obama presidential campaign.

    This hardball is even more obnoxious than it first appears. The rationale under which California was allocated the $6.8 billion in stimulus funds was to help the state deal with surging Medicaid costs. But now the White House demands California back off its bid to contain such costs.

    Then there is the bombshell April 13 investigation by the Los Angeles Times that found the $5.4 billion In Home Supportive Services program to be riddled by fraud. Attempts to investigate this fraud are severely limited.

    Why? Almost certainly because of SEIU political pressure during the drafting of bills dealing with in-home care. Whether dealing with the state or federal government, it sure is good to be the Service Employees International Union.

    Beyond these specific concerns, there is a much larger issue: the appropriateness of the Obama administration's use of stimulus funds as a tool of coercion. If it's happening in California, it's probably happening elsewhere. We think far fewer members of Congress would have backed the $787 billion stimulus bill in February if they knew this is how the president would use it.

    For all these reasons and more, the Obama administration must drop its intervention into California politics. What's gone on to date isn't just disappointing and disturbing. It's scandalous.

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    Dictator-in-Chief strikes again...

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    this is enough to make Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez proud... Socialism rules in third world countrys and thats exactly what we have become
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    Peaceful but forceful protests.

    Just think at this point how fearful people are getting about speaking out against Obama and his steam rollers in Washington...............it;s only going to get worse and more restrictive...........so we must speak out and peacefully act out against these violations to our liberty and freedom before it is all taken away from us.


    Hitler could have been stopped if enough people in all walks of life had protested early on...............
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