[nfbmi-talk] FW: Comment

[Fred Wurtzel]

Hello,

Below is a comment from a worker from the Department of Human Services.
When I told Pat Cannon I hoped there would be more furlow days and suggested
a training therapy involving dumpsters at McDonald's, I was, of course,
speaking in hyperbole, though I was very serious about my outrage that
well-paid Commission staff are so parsimonious toward blind Commission
clients.  So jealous of benefits that they attempt to extort the meager
incomes of those on SSI.  What I expect is a degree of empathy and a
full-throttle effort to provide jobs and education for every blind person
who signs up for services.  After all, that is why the Commission gets
around $20 million a year.  

So, to whine about some furlow days is hypocritical when some Commission
staff are attempting to withhold benefits from people receiving $600 per
month.  Here is the reaction of one employee's to another employee's whining
complaints.  Very insightful, I say.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Frances G. Donbrosky [mailto:donbroskyf2 at michigan.gov] 
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 10:28 AM
Subject: Comment

There was an article in newspaper yesterday where a CPS worker I work with
commented on how badly the six furlough days off were affecting her.  I just
read it and good grief I cannot believe the woman.  Allegedly she had to
cancel her day care, had to borrow money from her parents so her little
darling could play on a football league--no doubt a necessity--and has taken
to buying groceries from Save-A-Lot instead of Meijer and complained the
food is not as good.  And of course she played the "poor single mother"
card.  

Frankly I consider it disgraceful that someone cannot manage their money
better.  First of all CPS workers make a decent salary.  I realize no one
likes furlough days and of course a person is going to have to cut back on
some things but come on.  She makes it sound like she is poverty stricken.
If things are that bad for her she needs to learn to manage her money
better.  

Welfare mothers are expected to find jobs and get off public assistance and
they do not make anything close to what a CPS worker makes.  There are a lot
of people out there making far less money and they're making it.  I am just
totally disgusted that someone in this worker's position would whine and
complain in such a manner.  

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