[Nfbmt] A ridiculous Question

[Dan Burke]

Colorado is one of the states that is raising its minimum wage this year.

Dan


On 1/5/14, Dmgina <dmgina at samobile.net> wrote:
> Wow what did you have for breakfast to come up with such thoughts smile!
> As it was shared on the news, Montana doesn't have the money to keep up with
> the raises states are doing. They are doing well to keep jobs.
> I do know to keep our mall open they need to come down in price for renting
> a space.
> No wonder we shop on line.
> This is happening al over, not just the disabled, or the blind.
> It is good to get out there and take a stand.
> We are proud to remind others we too need a raise in the working force.
> Don't know if I came close to your question, just my thoughts.
>
>
> Dar
> Every saint has a past,
> Every sinner has a future
>
>
>> On Jan 5, 2014, at 10:54 AM, "Rik James" <montanarikster at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I am appreciating what the NFB legislative team is doing. I am looking
>> forward to our trip to Washington, to be part of a collective voice to
>> express our dismay and disgust at what is, and has been going on for much
>> too long for our fellow blind persons.
>>
>> What we will ask them, the Congressional representatives to do is
>> important. For us, together and for each of individually, I guess I feel
>> like I need to get my head together and be informed.
>>
>> And to be able to boil it down into a few concise and understandable sound
>> bytes. Because that is what we will have in the way of time.
>>
>> Go around the room, if you please, now, fellow Fedearationists.
>>
>> Speak your mind now amongst ourselves.
>>
>> Sing the Dress Rehearsal Rag.
>> (Oops, sorry! I drifted in to my music world for a moment, with that
>> Leonard Cohen song title.)
>>
>> What do you each know about the history of the minimum wage in America?
>> In the general sense, I think this is valuable to understand.
>>
>> What are the big bullet points of that history, that have led us to right
>> now in time?
>>
>> History. All around us. Surrounding us.
>> And the role we play, today, in that history.
>> The future and the present. Unraveling all of it.
>> That is what occupies part of my mind, as I try and see about what I would
>> like to be a part of in Washington at the end of this month.
>>
>> I wish I felt more optimistic. I have been following our Congress with
>> horror and dismay in the years since last I went on this advocacy
>> pilgrimage.
>> And so it makes me rather a grim conversationalist, when sitting around
>> talking. Because I worry that we are all of us, sighted, blind and
>> whatever in a very rough patch for democratic principles, and anyone
>> without a huge money sack of lobby professionals, controlling the pie
>> slicing in America.
>>
>> But I let that rest. Are you glad?
>>
>> But here is the next little thing I have to say. That beyond those few
>> moments with a congressmen or one of their staff, there will be time with
>> one another, us in the National Federation of the Blind, from Montana, and
>> other state affiliate members around the nation, once again. Anything is
>> possible. Especially when we remain as we are, and continue to evolve and
>> to work together.
>>
>> And that is also precious. Don't you think?
>>
>> I just am hoping now that by that time the weather will cooperate with us,
>> too. For our travel needs. It will be what it will be. But I wish for it
>> to be smooth sailing, smooth flying, and a waltz on concrete that is not
>> so dreadfully slippery as it is here today in my home town.
>>
>> Peace Love Joy.
>> And man the barricades. We will not go back.
>> As Doctor Jernigan and others have chanted lo these decades now for our
>> rights for equality and justice, and a fair shake at everything anyone
>> with complete normal eyesight has.
>>
>> Rik
>>
>>
>> .
>>
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