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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (180696)	1/18/2004 4:20:03 PM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1572529

Tenchusatsu, RE: "So I don't buy your notion that I could be so insensitive to the blind and disabled just because I support the Governator's budget." I hadn't made a decision on your level of sensitivity to the disabled, so no, I did not imply the above statement. Because you hadn't expressed any empathy towards their situation, nor the mathematical logic around cutting $138M from them when a larger amount could be taken out of the faulty K12 system. RE: "I'm positive we can keep almost the same level of social services as before, as long as we force each state agency to stretch each dollar." From my experience, I've found this category to be extremely tight. A better low hanging fruit category to cut, would be in the area of legal services - these fees are more flexible. Silicon Valley recently had a lawyer bill the government $900,000 for the same work being billed to 14 other firms. Regards, Amy J

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (180696)	1/18/2004 9:38:43 PM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1572529

Tenchusatsu, RE: "I'm positive we can keep almost the same level of social services as before, as long as we force each state agency to stretch each dollar." Was curious if you had any experience volunteering to social services, for insight. While I agree our government system needs to get the next level of efficiency, I doubt there's much to cut in this area. It's generally a starved area. Back in school, I had a summer job teaching emotionally handicapped people, many who lived in institutions funded by social services. When budget cuts occur in social services, they would jack up the number of drugs used to sedatate the handicap in order to make their workload easier. I would push back on this, when a student was overly drugged up by social services. It's more work to teach a student when they aren't drugged up, but it's certainly more effective for them to develop skills. It's offensive to sedate the handicap as a forms of budget cutting. From my experience of teaching the handicapped, I've found this category to be extremely tight. I doubt this category has much slack for cutting - maybe things have changed. Regards, Amy J