As some of us on this thread are facing taking care of our elderly parents, I thought this might be of interest. So, what if the lawyer doesn't take a fee. Is it still illegal. Ah yes, freedom of speech. Meanwhile, loops holes for the rich continue to grow.
You may find it difficult to obtain legal advice about Medicaid consequences for transfers of assets at the present time. The lunatic fringe in Congress has enacted a "gag law" that makes it a federal crime for a lawyer to give you advice for a fee about how to transfer assets for purposes of Medicaid eligibility. This law obviously flaunts a number of important personal rights and drags our national discourse about health care policy to a new rhetorical low. ElderNet believes that such flaws will result in removal of the gag law in the near future. But in the meantime, some lawyers will be reluctant to advise you about Medicaid financial eligibility rules, as was intended by the drafters of the gag law.
http://www.elderlawstlouis.com/medicaid.html
Posted by Judith at August 2, 2008 08:35 AMRecently I had a 2 hour "opportunity" to monitor the work ethic of the State of Az's DMV "workers".
Put me down for minimum wage minus cigarette and "chat" breaks taken with fellow "workers" right in front of me.
Posted by TIKI AL at August 2, 2008 08:40 AMAhnold really must have decided this is a great way to clear the CA public employee rolls. Slashing the pay for many of these folks to minimum wage combined with the notorious commutes that many folks in CA must make would suggest that many of these people will lose money working. Yes, that's right - they will be paying for the privilege to work. This realization won't strike immediately, but by Election Day, they'll be aware of what's happening and they may just vote for the party opposed to Ahnold and his allies.
Posted by PrahaPartizan at August 2, 2008 08:53 AMI hear Hillary will be the keynote speaker at the convention. Probably a good way to offer an olive branch to her pissed off supporters, but I wonder if it will remind them (us) how annoyed we are that Obama is the nominee and not her. I've been missing her lately. Obama lacks her passion.
Posted by CG at August 2, 2008 09:23 AMBush has driven people to drink for their own good?:
A herd of trolls can only lie as fast as the slowest troll, and when the herd is confronted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are banned first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole is maintained or even improved by the regular culling of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can operate only as fast as the slowest brain cells through which the electrical signals pass. Recent epidemiological studies have shown that while excessive intake of alcohol kills off brain cells, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.
Thus, regular consumption of beer, wine etc., helps eliminate the weaker cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. The result of this in-depth study verifies and validates the causal link between all-weekend parties and job related performance on Monday morning. It also explains why, after a few short years of leaving a university, most professionals cannot keep up with the performance of the new graduates. Only those few that stick to the strict regimen of voracious alcoholic consumption can maintain the intellectual levels that they achieve during their college years.
Mary, First it would be good for you to learn to spell Schwarzenegger. No "T".
Then you should disclose the entire truth, difficult for the Nutroots.
Gov. Schwarzennegger threatened to reduce the lowest paid state employees to the Federal Minimum Wage in an effort to force their house and senate to produce a budget.
Raise taxes on the "rich"? That Nutroot philosophy is what has driven California to its current financial state. The obscene taxes on the "rich" and corporations are what is driving people able to pay taxes out of the state, leaving all the recipients in California.
It is no coincidence that the 25 cities in our country with the highest crime rates, 23 are run by left wing liberal Nutroots.
Posted by Markle at August 2, 2008 09:25 PMMalarky: "It is no coincidence that the 25 cities in our country with the highest crime rates, 23 are run by left wing liberal Nutroots."
nothing that JOBS and health care wouldn't cure
now go back to licking your master's boot
Posted by gay veteran at August 4, 2008 04:47 PM