[nfbmi-talk] looking into my crystal ball

[joe harcz Comcast]

Looking Into My Crystal Ball

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen of NFB and ACB and those who are blind:

 

If the current MCB plan and EO 2012-10 goes through as is then let’s look in to the crystal ball for the future of blind people here.

 

The theft of business enterprise locations won’t be a worry. Why? There won’t be any.

 

We won’t have to worry about getting calls back in two years, because they won’t come in your lifetime.

 

Eventually the Michigan Commission for the Blind Training Center will be shut down and sold to some other entity for some other purpose just like the Michigan School for the Blind was. Oh they might promise that the state will put proceeds in a trust to provide in home itinerate training services, but we know what happened with similar promises concerning the blind trust.

 

So no blindness skills training for you. No travel instruction, Braille or assistive technology for the newly blind. No jobs either. Oh likely no state library services either (I almost forgot that). Don’t worry blind people don’t need to learn those things like reading and writing and getting around in the world. Don’t worry you cute little pets and pawns.

 

This  is just a glimpse in to the future for blind people here in Michigan.

 

Oh, some will have some appointments to a worthless advisory committee for awhile serving at the pleasure of the Governor. It might even have a closed meeting or two funded by Mike Zimmer. He hasn’t decided how he’ll use all the federal Vocational Rehabilitation money yet. Isn’t the handful of sellouts grateful though at how he talked with you in the past and assured you like good little boys and girls not to worry, because everything will be all right? I mean they are professional bureaucrats after all. Trust them. They know what they are doing. If you don’t believe them then just ask them.

 

Oh, for the staff of MCB or the bulk of it except for the higher ups you should be getting your resumes in order, or you might just wish to check in to the status of your retirement 

 

Don’t worry about Pat Cannon though. He ain’t going nowhere as they say. He’ll be a king without a country: a King without pawns, and he will still be the proverbial naked emporor. But, he’ll no longer have anyone to say how beautiful his clothes are.

 

 

Joe  Harcz