[Nfbmt] A ridiculous Question

[Dmgina]

What are they raising it too! 

Dar
Every saint has a past, 
Every sinner has a future 


> On Jan 5, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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