Sorry.. Get you priorities right.. we are saving up for a stadium. They will just have to die. Send your letters to Dayton and Rybak, let them know how you feel.

Health care aides work really hard to provide care to the most needy. Many home health care agencies bill for services and the workers are routinely not paid for hours they work. May I suggest the judge work as a home health care aide for one month then take another look at his decision.

Wouldn't we save more money if we cut the judges pay?

Our politicians are too busy putting together a corporate welfare package for a billionaire from New Jersey to care about little people like this.

Home health care workers (whether they care for a familly member or a stranger) can't afford to fund a PAC or even hire an attorney. It's a tough job and it's always the little guy that gets the cut in pay. Go ahead and build a stadium and cut taxes on millionaires. This judge should have trouble sleeping at night

"Lindman found that the Legislature offered the necessary "rational basis" for the pay cut when it decided that family members have "moral obligations ... toward helping family members [and] will continue to provide care even if affected by a pay cut.". Moral obligations must only be inside of families according to this judge. We, as a society, have no moral obligation to treat these health care workers fairly. How sad that we saddle these people with even more hardship.

This country is really getting pathetic when it comes to health care. It's nearing ripe for revolution.

Where this really will be sad is in rural areas, where family members also rely on these wages to pay the bills. Read Jon Tevlin's column this morning to see the harsh reality of double-digit unemployment in most small towns. In these cases the family member (often an aging parent) is the only barrier between someone living with a disability at home -- or in a nursing home. Sorry, Judge, "moral obligation" doesn't put food on the table.

The new reality, welfare for billionaires pay cuts for care givers. And the judge has the gall to talk about "moral obligations"

goes to show you how narrow minded judges are. These are people who otherwise would work regular jobs. I know let's put their love ones into a nursing home or group home and pay more