New Budget Shows No Mercy to No One Even Senior Citizens Suffer

California seniors struggle to survive in their last days. Many seniors are making life decisions, food or medicine, rent or heat. Has it really come down to this when you have to chose between food to keep you alive from starving to death or choosing medicine to keep you alive so you won't die from your medical condition. Yes, this is happening in your very own neighborhood. Old people do not make enough money to live their everyday lives. They are either retired or too disabled to work. So they rely on Social Security checks to help. But everyone knows SSI has been getting depleted for years. In the San Jose/Silicon Valley Area 43% of senior citizens fell below the survival standard. The new state budget is doing little to help this problem. California's budget passed last week will cut SSI payments for hundreds of thousands of California seniors by $37 each month, with the possibility of another $20 cut come July. Cuts to home health care subsidies which keep the elderly and infirm out of more costly nursing homes also loom. President Barack Obama's stimulus plan will, however, provide some temporary relief for SSI recipients who are blind, elderly or disabled, a group that number 1.3 million in California. Those recipients will receive a one-time $250 cash payment in the coming months. The economy is taking not taking any prisoners; everybody is getting hit where it hurts. I believe overtime the economy will get better over time but we as people must be patient and wait for the change to happen sooner than later.