August 25, 2008
Opinion: “Why spend more on sick prisoners than on sick veterans?”
Court-appointed prison receiver — attorney Clark Kelso — has carte blanche to seize $8 billion of taxpayer money to build state-of-the-art medical facilities for prisoners. Does he not realize California is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy? Let's put this outrageous money grab for vicious convicts into proper perspective.
Kelso is trying to force California to spend 33 times more money on medical facilities for violent sexual predators, murderers and other criminals than the federal government spends annually in California on medical programs for veterans — the men and women who have risked their lives to keep this country free.
As a veteran, I find this unconscionable….
LINK - ModBee.com (The Modesto Bee)
