[blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind
ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jun 11 22:10:24 UTC 2009
and its pretty pathetic that with all this so-called or investment the blind
have an unemployment rate of over 70%. Due to the lack of planning for
employment and effective support if this were a business proposal the rate
of return would be pretty poor based on the way the government has handled
support and enforcement of laws affecting the blind.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind
> The American Community Survey only tracks the senosry impaired. That
> incluides the deaf. We need to know about the blind, the deaf blind, the
> visually impaired and the color blind. We need to know the status of the
> blind in society, where we need to change things and we cannot do that
> when
> the government does not track this specific minority. Including us in a
> general class is not going to do it.
>
> There is no reason to ignore the blind and we need this done NOW, not 10
> years from now, NOW. All of this should have been done 36 years ago with
> the passing of the Rehabilitation Act.
>
> Our economy spends 50 billion dollars a year on the blind, most of that is
> in government payouts to support the blind. The US Government pays out
> $266,000 to each blind person over their lifetime on average in public
> assistance. If you mutliply the 50 billion figure over the past 36 years
> of
> the Rehabilitation Act, the US economy has spent 1.8 Trillion dollars on
> the
> blind. The US government should be tracking the results of that
> expenditure
> but it is not doing it, because the results are terrible.
>
> So who cares if the census is going to have to be redone, do we have to
> spend another 500 billion dollars to wait for a real census just so the
> government policies can maintain us at a 70% unemployement rate?
>
> James Pepper
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