Corbett Cuts Not Only Heartless but will cost PA. more money in the long-run - Column

[PA Democrat]

2. The waiting lists for people with disabilities in PA are at a crisis point.

With no money budgeted to move people off of waiting lists, families are barely coping and desperate. In my almost 2 decades of advocacy for people with disabilities (I have an adult child with autism myself) I have never seen people in the disability community as alarmed.

Groups like the Arc of PA and the Autism Society of Pennsylvania have come about as close as I have ever seen to an outright condemnation of Corbett and his Republican cronies in the legislature.

I urge everyone who cares about a person with disabilities who needs/ will need services to let friends and family members know how the budget cuts affect their loved one. Put a face on these cruel cuts. People are a lot less likely to turn a blind eye when they realize the pain that is being inflicted for "savings" that turn out not to be savings at all in the long run.