You know, this guy does have a point...

This caller is responding to my column on Sunday about the state cutting 100 percent of its funding for the Ombudsman program, which relies heavily on volunteers to visit nursing homes and check on complaints of abuse or neglect.

The state had given the program, which has an office in every county, $3.8 million a year. But that bag of peanuts was cut last October.

This caller suggests the state is walking around dollars to pick up dimes and points to the fact that the Gov. isn't disturbed in the slightest that the state pays about $4 billion for services used by illegal immigrants.

I don't want to get into the illegal immigrant debate, but the same could be said for the state's inability to cut or even reduce some of the many boards and commissions we have, many staffed with ex legislators at high rates of pay

(Nicole Parra, $128,000 a year to um...talk to people about business in the SJV? Come ON!).

Anyway, I thought he had an interesting point.