Greetings to all California citizens.

Are you aware that the poor and disabled senior citizens who barely can afford to eat are receiving reductions of their SSI checks? 

We are on a fixed income and cannot work, we are at the mercy of the state that we have worked in for many years, contributing to the economy when we were younger.

Now that we are old and disabled our needs are tossed aside.

To make matters worse, if we receive Medi-Cal we can no longer go to the dentist except for emergencies and our teeth are old and lack of dental care is dangerous to our health.

But wait there is more.

In-Home Support Services have made it possible to live out the rest of our lives in our homes or apartments where we are content and happy.

Well, that is being threatened by discontinuing services to those that are not in maximum need of care. This leaves hundreds and hundreds of disabled people who will be forced into convalescent homes that will cost $3,000 to maybe $5,000 a month to the state when IHSS maximum cost is about $1,000 to $2,000 a month.

Something’s not right here. Please speak up on behalf of our seniors who can’t.

Why lock us up and abuse us because we are old and disabled?

Hitler threw the sickly and the elderly into the ovens which is horribly, horribly sick because they were of no use to his evil empire.

Please help us. My neighbors are frightened for their lives. We know California has money issues but please don’t take it from the lowly of the lowliest income bracket. We will be dead soon enough but I guess not soon enough for our California politicians.

That is not the America I know and love.

Jay Johnson, Colfax