[nfbmi-talk] wonder if rodgers learned anything there?
joe harcz Comcast
joeharcz at comcast.net
Mon Nov 18 20:09:08 UTC 2013
Have you read a "modest proposal"?
Dark humor on the British eating the Irish young and poor....
Anyway good points all on the Rodgers situation.
Plus they wouldn't wish to be here at home to answer those ugly questions
some blind folks ask about precisely what they do; who they spend the
taxpayers funds on; and how precisely do they work to rehabilitate the
blind?
Man this guy and his side kicks have gone on more pure junkets than Cannon
ever would have even thought of.
Well you know gotta network and all that....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Boone" <christineboone2 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] wonder if rodgers learned anything there?
Certainly not...he already knows more than anyone else who was there...
This begs the question why Ed wanted to attend this meeting at all. And why
did he take the liberty of spending the money to travel on Sunday when the
NCSAB does not begin until 1 p.m. on Wednesday? Well because he apparently
felt like spending a few additional days in Denver, attending all of the
CSAVR (Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation) which
runs from Sunday night through Wednesday morning.
While this is sometimes a reasonable thing to do, if one is head of a Bureau
that is part of a combined agency, my question is why did Ed need to do
this? We do not have a combined agency here. Indeed our general agency is
in another department. As for the federal arm, RSA gives essentially the
same report on Wednesday afternoon to the NCSAB folks, as on Monday morning
to the CSAVR crowd. So it was another $500+ for the registration,
(multiplied by the number attending), plus lodging for 3 nights and meals
for 3 days for Ed, Mike and anyone else who came along.
Because this meeting was in Denver, it was Very doable to travel on
Wednesday morning and arrive in plenty of time for the 1:00 start. I took
that morning flight earlier this year and was at my destination before 11
a.m.
But it's only money, and not Mr. Rodgers money at that.
I want to make a plaque for every state administrator that sayd
"I report to the tax payers".
The odds are that there is someone, somewhere in our state government who
knows this and who is a worthy beneficiary of the tax-payer funded salary
that he or she receives, but I do not think I have met this person yet.
My prayer is that they will find a way to multiply their kind, at the
expense of the Yahoos who are now attempting to run the joint.
By the way I am currently reading the writings of Johnathan Swiift... and
his words are balm for the sole of a citizen who has been betrayed by the
monarchy.
Christine
On Nov 18, 2013, at 1:48 PM, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz at comcast.net> wrote:
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