No More California Welfare?

CA Gov plans to increase homelessness and harm children by eliminating CalWorks.

LAHSA to get contract

From the Board of Supervisors adgenda on June 2: Recommendation: Award and instruct the Chairman to sign a sole-source contract with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority for the provision of emergency shelter services to homeless CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work participants at a three-year cost of $8,684,244, effective July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2012, fully funded […]

El Monte Homeless Cave closed

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/homeless-driven-from-squatters-camp-along-san-gabriel-river-.html I’m writing from my phone, so I don’t know how the link will come out: it’s a link to LA Now’s article on an opening in freeway supports for the 10 freeway where homeless people have taken shelter.

I am seeing more Homeless

North Hollywood Homeless

Stupid

This bothered me today . . .really? Did you need to stop UNDER the Rail Road arm? The bad part of me hoped the train was coming so I could watch the barrier hit the truck.

rants

” You just had your nails and hair done. Obviously you don’t need Welfare!”. Seriously? You are going to say that? Homeless adults have outreach programs that do make-overs. We should expect these folks to be dressed nicely when they come to their appointments and when they look for housing or work. Stop speculating about […]

pride vs paycheck

Be willing to take the job, low pay and all. Take the gross job that you hate if it is the only one offered to you. Let the long hours focus your ideas of every other type of work you would rather be doing. Then, find a resource to guide you into that type of […]

entitlements

I hear a lot of people complain about “Entitlement” programs as the downfall of our economy: that the very tools that are supposed to protect us in the worst cases are in fact bankrupting us and teaching folks to expect to be rescued. The entitlement, I think, should not belong to the poor: the entitlements […]

Steve Westly

I am typing this at Menlo College’s graduation and Mr. Westly is speaking. He is talking about failure and the change of the American Economy. Californians have been writing the chapters of world history with the Gold rush,the silver screen and Silicon Valley. Don’t take “no” as a final answer, Do what you enjoy doing, […]