California's Governor Morphs Into Psychic Version of Reagan Seeing Waste and Fraud That Isn't There

After decades of cutting waste and fraud from all kinds of programs that help the poor, elderly, and disabled the state of California is actually kinda all tapped out, unless you count the dozens of 100k+ positions on boards and panels for which favored friends of the governator do little but show up for meetings a couple of times a year.  Somewhere I read that the money spent on such state employees, even when added to the money that legislators and aides have been scamming out of various state funds for travel and per diem isn't enough to make a difference in our current crisis.  I wish someone would add all that money up and show us the numbers.

But our newly rechristened Schwarzenegger-Reagan has found massive waste, fraud and abuse in the "In Home Supportive Services" program that funds help for elderly and disabled Californians thereby keeping them out of even more expensive and less effective institutionalized care. Andrew Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle isn't so sure:

Read "What happens if you cut waste that isn't there? " 

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