While Gov. Walker and his GOP legislature have enacted bills that will clearly hurt most Wisconsin families, they've made senior citizens especially vulnerable. With budget cuts, tax increases, and corporation-coddling lawmaking, seniors have lost security - not just financial, but physical, too.
Walker and the GOP have hit our seniors hard.
BadgerCare: For seniors who need to rely on BadgerCare because they haven't become eligible for Medicare, Walker's $466 million cut in BadgerCare funding could be devastating. The new budget bill gives the administration broader power to manipulate the program than ever before and with little legislative oversight. BadgerCare has become serious "social insecurity."
Increased taxes: By eliminating both the Earned Income Credit and Homestead Tax Credit, Walker's budget effectively increases the tax burden on Wisconsinites, taking nearly $70 million over two years from seniors and the working poor. For seniors who already living on a fixed income, and others still working just to make ends meet, this tax increase is especially cruel.
Nursing home "reforms:" While many, maybe most, nursing homes are responsible, too many are not. But Gov. Scott Walker has put policies in place that put nursing home residents, most of whom are elderly, at the mercy of the homes themselves. By:
n Allowing nursing homes to hide reports about elder neglect and abuse from public view.
n Prohibiting state investigations of elder neglect and abuse in nursing homes from being used in civil and criminal cases.
n Imposing a limit of $750,000 for pain, suffering, disability, grief, loss of dignity, or shortened life on an abuse or neglect claim filed against a nursing home.
Please show Gov. Walker how you feel about what he's doing to our seniors by signing the petition to recall him. This is the last week to sign. The Recall Walker office is located on 1st Center Ave., downtown Brodhead. Hours are noon till 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
You can also call (608) 436-2247 or (608) 214-1871 and schedule a time for a volunteer to come to your home to get your signature.
For all of you who have signed already, thank you for helping us take back our beautiful state of Wisconsin.
Walker and the GOP have hit our seniors hard.
BadgerCare: For seniors who need to rely on BadgerCare because they haven't become eligible for Medicare, Walker's $466 million cut in BadgerCare funding could be devastating. The new budget bill gives the administration broader power to manipulate the program than ever before and with little legislative oversight. BadgerCare has become serious "social insecurity."
Increased taxes: By eliminating both the Earned Income Credit and Homestead Tax Credit, Walker's budget effectively increases the tax burden on Wisconsinites, taking nearly $70 million over two years from seniors and the working poor. For seniors who already living on a fixed income, and others still working just to make ends meet, this tax increase is especially cruel.
Nursing home "reforms:" While many, maybe most, nursing homes are responsible, too many are not. But Gov. Scott Walker has put policies in place that put nursing home residents, most of whom are elderly, at the mercy of the homes themselves. By:
n Allowing nursing homes to hide reports about elder neglect and abuse from public view.
n Prohibiting state investigations of elder neglect and abuse in nursing homes from being used in civil and criminal cases.
n Imposing a limit of $750,000 for pain, suffering, disability, grief, loss of dignity, or shortened life on an abuse or neglect claim filed against a nursing home.
Please show Gov. Walker how you feel about what he's doing to our seniors by signing the petition to recall him. This is the last week to sign. The Recall Walker office is located on 1st Center Ave., downtown Brodhead. Hours are noon till 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
You can also call (608) 436-2247 or (608) 214-1871 and schedule a time for a volunteer to come to your home to get your signature.
For all of you who have signed already, thank you for helping us take back our beautiful state of Wisconsin.
