A lot of state governments who accepted money from the Porkulus bill are waking up to a really bad day. By taking money, they ceded control of their states to Obama.
This is unprecedented in US history. Federal money has always come with strings attached, but the strings were at least somewhat limited in scope. If a state has taken one dime of Porkulus money, Obama and his union thugs will kneecap you if you step out of line.
Just as the unions now control GM, state workers’ unions now control any state that accepted Porkulus money.
Welcome to Hope and Change.
Reporting from Sacramento — The Obama administration is threatening to rescind billions of dollars in federal stimulus money if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers approved in February as part of the budget.
Schwarzenegger’s office was advised this week by federal health officials that the wage reduction, which will save California $74 million, violates provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Failure to revoke the scheduled wage cut before it takes effect July 1 could cost California $6.8 billion in stimulus money, according to state officials.
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The wages at issue involve workers who care for some 440,000 low-income disabled and elderly Californians. The workers, who collectively contribute millions of dollars in dues each month to the influential Service Employees International Union and the United Domestic Workers, will see the state’s contribution to their wages cut from a maximum of $12.10 per hour to a maximum of $10.10.
The SEIU said in a statement that it had asked the Obama administration for the ruling.
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