[blindlaw] ramifications of receiving Target settlementcheckforSSI recipients

[Steve P. Deeley]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] ramifications of receiving Target 
settlementcheckforSSI recipients


> Well, given that the SSI beneficiaries are going to be a large percentage 
> of
> the people who will be benefiting from these types of lawsuits, you need
> their cooperation to get the changes needed to force companies into
> compliance for accesssibility, so in the future, these considerations are
> going to have to be adopted.
>
> You can't just go around saying oh well they are not paying taxes let's
> jteach them a lesson, because they don't have you skills, and in most 
> cases,
> they are being discriminated against, hence the lawsuits.
>
> You need these people to be able to benefit from a lawsuit, otherwise why
> should they care?  Why should they be included if they will not benefit 
> from
> any lawsuit.  They become the people who benefit from the slow 
> improvements
> made in technology which is a factor which is driven by IT personnel who
> care, not the people who are being forced into compliance.  Improvements 
> are
> made by people who are trying to help.  Everything else is just 
> maintenance.
>
> So if you want to get things done, you had better change the attitude and
> realize that not everyone is as fortunate as yourselves.  And remember 
> when
> people loose their SSI, it is not only the money, its the medications, but
> all of the other support that goes with it and so it can be catastrophic 
> the
> amount of damage that can be done to these people, just so you can get a
> check as a member of the same class as these people.
>
> James Pepper
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