[Nfbmo] Staying on issue

[Gary Wunder]

The Governor suggests that neither funding proposal represents real money at
this point.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Gene Coulter
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:33 PM
To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Staying on issue

The $6 million is actually only $2 million that was restored in the house 
appropriations committee.
The other $4 .2 million would come from a tax on supplies that newspapers 
buy in manufacturing their papers. There is absolutely no guarantee that 
this tax will pass as it has just made it through it's first committee vote.

The bill was introduced after the Post-Dispatch  was the first to report on 
the medical cuts to blind people.


From: Brian Wekamp
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:55 PM
To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Staying on issue

Hello Everyone:

Do we know much about the parshel  amount of money that is trying to be
restored for the Medicaid under Blind pension.

I heard something like 6 Million dollars.


Brian Wekamp

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gary Wunder
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:44 PM
To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
Subject: [Nfbmo] Staying on issue

I notice that some of our discussion has focused on whether there should be
a blind pension and on who should qualify for it. The topics are interesting
but are not what we're addressing here. Our energy must be on preserving the
benefit unless we're comfortable letting it go. If, at some other time, we
want to focus on the why of a blind pension, the reason for pressing for
changes to the SSDI program, and other topics about government assistance,
that's fine, but let's make sure we are focused on the issue before us--that
we see where the wings meet the body.

Gary


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