State of the States
By Gregg Phillips Very soon, career bureaucrats will finally have an opportunity to demonstrate the strength of their collective backbones. Decades of hiding behind regulations, rules and fat budgets are crashing down. A half century of expanding social programs - Medicaid, food stamps, social security and more - have finally pushed states to their absolute limits. We employ unprecedented numbers of employees in the public sector. It’s as if government has become a giant jobs … [Read more...]
The Associated Press The state's Medicaid program plans to stop paying for adult dental, vision and hospice services and cut home health visits by a third for the state's elderly and disabled in February. Meanwhile, the agency plans to eliminate routine infant circumcisions, cut prescription drug benefits and shoes for diabetics. The reductions even include umbrella and crutch holders for people who use wheelchairs while telling people to use powered wheelchairs for seven years instead … [Read more...]
A University of Pennsylvania economics professer, Robert Inman, recently blamed the lack of success of the federal stimulus funding on the states. Inman called the states "selfish" and accused them of subverting the federal intentions by basing their allocation decisions on their own agendas. Laying the blame at the feet of the states for a trillion dollar debacle that was ill concieved in its origin is ridiculous. The allocation of these funds and the spending decisions rightly fell to the … [Read more...]
"Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
