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Legislative gamble may backfire, force cuts in services to poor

Las Vegas Sun
By David McGrath Schwartz
Monday, June 8, 2010

Carson City — As if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid didn’t have enough on his plate, now Nevada lawmakers are looking to him to prevent another budget crisis.

Nevada faces an $88.5 million budget hole, as federal legislation that lawmakers and Gov. Jim Gibbons banked on to balance the budget is in jeopardy.

During February’s special session — called to close a then-$800 million budget gap — legislators assumed Congress would contribute more to Nevada’s Medicaid program, as the federal government has since the stimulus passed in January 2009.

A bill that passed the U.S. Senate did just that. But at the last minute, conservative “Blue Dogâ€

I wish some State would have the guts to stop welfare & free schooling to IA's and their children.

Elder Citizens should not be punished while citizens of other countries collect our benefits.

I think Citizens are so feedup across the country they would back such a move by State Government and to Hell with the Supreme Court 1980 ruling.

USPatriot wrote:

I wish some State would have the guts to stop welfare & free schooling to IA's and their children.

Elder Citizens should not be punished while citizens of other countries collect our benefits.

It seems that all of the programs they want to cut impact programs for legal residents, mostly the elderly and not IAs.
There will be a backlash when granny doesn't get a hearing aid and the IAs are still strutting around the groceries stores with their carts full paying with WIC coupons and foodstamps.