[Nfbc-info] Nfbc-info Digest, Vol 122, Issue 15

[Dennis Russak]

Congratulations Loren, 

  That message was fantastic! I agree with the message you've put out to whoever in Congress you wrote to. You really gave them some extremely important perspectives to help them deal with the opposition. Keep up the good work. And to everyone else, let's write that sort of letter to our Congress people, using Loren's letter as a prime example.  They need to finally come to understand this issue from our perspective, which many eventually will, but some just won't, no matter how much you try to convince them. Their minds are completely shut up behind mental fortresses.   

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>    1. more about subminimum wages for people with disabilities
>       (Lauren Merryfield)
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> From: "Lauren Merryfield" <lauren at catlines.com>
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> Hi,
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> I wrote a very short letter to you the other day regarding subminimum wages
> for people with disabilities. I've ben thinking and I'd like you to add more
> to my testimony. 
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>  
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> I believe that paying people with disabilities subminimum wages reflects on
> how our culture regards people with disabilities, as "less than." We are
> equal to anyone else; we just do things differently. We deserve minimum and
> above wages for the work we do. 
> 
>  
> 
> I understand that there are some people who are so disabled they cannot
> really produce much work. Still, they should be paid at least minimum wage
> for what they do. If they need to be in adult daycare, then that's where
> they should go, if they are totally incapable of working. But the people
> with disabilities who can work, in varying capacities, including myself,
> deserve to never be paid less than nondisabled people would be paid. 
> 
>  
> 
> This is an outdated way of thinking and it needs to be updated. We need to
> get rid of the idea of subminimum wages for anyone!
> 
>  
> 
> If companies who are currently paying subminimum wages go under; well they
> should for taking advantage of people with disabilities by paying them less
> than they deserve. 
> 
>  
> 
> I realize you are hearing from those companies to keep subminimum wages
> available. They are only doing this to cover their own hide. I also realize
> there are parents and other family members who are favorable to subminimum
> wages because they have a disabled person in their family that they think
> can't work well enough to earn minimum wage or above. That is because their
> attitudes toward their own family member are negative and "the glass is half
> empty?-thinking. If they truly regarded their disabled family member as
> equal to themselves, of course they would write in favor of getting rid of
> subminimum wages. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lauren Merryfield
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> Blessings in Jesus' name
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> Philippians 4:6-7
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> petition, with thanksgiving,
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> present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all
> understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
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> My digital evangelism blog is at:
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> W w w . ask in Jesus name . o r g
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> My book, in audio format, is at:
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> W w w . audible . c o m 
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> Cats Are Terrifically Superb:
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> W w w . catlInes . c o m
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