[blindlaw] SSI payments

[T. Joseph Carter]

Mark,

Acquiring a second disability which substantially reduces your 
employability (I can only imagine, but it seems that deaf-blindness 
has got to be the most frustrating combination of disabilities out 
there) is precisely the intent of the forgiveness of loans on the 
basis of a disabling condition that provides a significant barrier to 
employment.

I see no moral objection to you applying for loan forgiveness, given 
your circumstances.  In terms of the massive bailouts asked for and 
given in the past twelve months, for you to seek loan forgiveness at 
this time seems like the first one I've come across that I consider 
to be necessary as a matter of real (not fluffy) social justice.

Joseph


On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:37:53AM -0800, Mark BurningHawk wrote:
> Okay, since I started this somehow, I want to clarify two points:
> First point:  I do\ not wish to use blindness as a reason for not  
> working, since I was blind when I went to college.  In light of my  
> progressive and now severe hearing loss, however, and the compounded  
> difficulties in obtaining that employment, I wish to be either left  
> alone, or put on a drastically reduced pay schedule, until and unless I 
> acquire a job that allows me, as was the original intent, to pay the  
> loans back without unduly stressing myself financially or domestically.
> Second point, call it B:  I do not wish or wish to seem to espouse the  
> moral stance that blind people, myself or anyone else, should be given a 
> get out of debt free card.  As stated above, if an arrangement whereby I 
> could pay $20 per month were reached, I should be most timely with these 
> payments, as they do not unduly stress me, until such time as I have 
> acquired that dream job in the adaptive tech field in which my true 
> genius can shine, and in which I am *PAID* congruent with my genius...  
> Or until I win the lottery, sell a body organ, compose, arrange and 
> produce that one-hit wonder song, ... I trust this is clear.
> Point Number Gamma:  There is *NO!* point letter three!
>
>
>
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