Protesting the Proposed Budgets Cuts
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Disabled Kansas citizens may be forced to leave their homes if a new state budget is passed. Over a hundred disabled citizens crowded into the Pittsburg Salvation Army for a town hall meeting this they were there to protest the proposed budgets cuts for the disabled and elderly. If the current budget is passed. They would have to pay more for medications and services and would eliminate vision services.
Laurie Alquist - Concerned About Cuts
"Their life threatening budget cuts. If we loose just the basic needs of the consumers. We`re going to loose, there going to loose, their lives. They`ve already lost the quality of life. Their trying to take that away from them."
The residents are encouraging you to write the governor in protest of the budgets cuts. You can write to the state capital building at:
Gov Bill Graves
State Capital Building
Topeka, KS 66612
