Comments on: Health officials pledge to make up for budget blunder on disabilities aid https://marylandreporter.com/2011/12/01/health-officials-pledge-to-make-up-for-budget-blunder-on-disabilities-aid/ The news site for government and politics in the Free State Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Little Johnnie D https://marylandreporter.com/2011/12/01/health-officials-pledge-to-make-up-for-budget-blunder-on-disabilities-aid/#comment-3246 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:49:00 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=8554#comment-3246 The good folks at DDA knew what they were doing all along. They just wanted to make sure they didn’t go over budget; if people with DD didn’t get funded this year… not their problem. Don’t be fooled by these pretend measures. As long as the current players remain in place, especially in Hagerstown (WMD), nothing will really change. DDA will still control the money, control the eligibility, and contract all the agencies that are supposed to act as advocates for those served by DDA. Someone needs to break up this model and start from scratch. The horrible people at DDA have shown over the last two decades that they do not have the moral or ethical depth to act objectively when trying to separate these conflicts of interest. 

]]> By: Secretservice633 https://marylandreporter.com/2011/12/01/health-officials-pledge-to-make-up-for-budget-blunder-on-disabilities-aid/#comment-2912 Fri, 11 May 2012 01:49:00 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=8554#comment-2912 In reply to Skip727.

You’d be surprised what the alcohol tax is paying for via DDA. The money is now called services of short duration and is supposed to tend to the needs related to the persons disability. How will DDA explain paying for car insurance, TVs, cell phone, cars that arent specialty cars, and many, many other superflous goods and services?! Cant wait for the audit!!

]]> By: Anonymous https://marylandreporter.com/2011/12/01/health-officials-pledge-to-make-up-for-budget-blunder-on-disabilities-aid/#comment-1494 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:34:00 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=8554#comment-1494 It is hard to reconcile the propaganda campaign promoted by certain special needs activists for the alcohol tax increase & the actions of the DDA in so bungling their budget servicing this population. That there isn’t more fury from the special needs community at this travesty is amazing. Another prime example of the “trust but verify” motto. What other departments in Annapolis need a thorough audit before we get another tax and/or fee increase to cover so-called ‘shortfalls”? And why, pray tell, do legislators have to request the governor’s premission to restore funds due to mistakes made by incompetent administrators? Sunshine is in short supply in Annapolis!

]]> By: PARTY https://marylandreporter.com/2011/12/01/health-officials-pledge-to-make-up-for-budget-blunder-on-disabilities-aid/#comment-1485 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:15:00 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=8554#comment-1485 NO ONE IN GOVERNMENT WOULD SHORT PEOPLE OF SPECIAL NEEDS UNLESS THE STATE OF MD NEEDED THE MONEY FOR BUDGET REASONS AND THERE HAPPEN TO BE A REPUBLICAN GOV, THEN YOU WOULD HEAR THE CRYING OF THE DEMS ABOUT HOW MEAN
REPUBLICANS ARE..
THE REAL SPECIAL NEEDS PEOPLE ARE THE EGOS THAT RUN OUR STATE, AND THEY NEED TO BE FIRED OR QUIT AND HAVE NO BENEFITS FOR TWO YEARS WHILE WE FIGURE IT ALL OUT.
MIGHT AS WELL RAISE THAT 9% sales TAX SO THEY LIE SOME MORE .

]]> By: Skip727 https://marylandreporter.com/2011/12/01/health-officials-pledge-to-make-up-for-budget-blunder-on-disabilities-aid/#comment-1481 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:16:00 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=8554#comment-1481 And this “error” is the reason for the 9% tax on liquor? Will the citizens of Maryland be reimbursed for that boondoggle?

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