[Nfbmt] A ridiculous Question

[Rebecca Stewart]

Hi Dar.  You are right, things are tough everywhere but if our government
people who spend our tax dollars would use them more wisely, I think things
could get better and we shouldn't decide that because someone has to take
the loss of subminimum wages that it should be disabled people.  In my mind,
if disabled people were paid the same minimum wage as everyone else, it
would only help our overall situation because it would help our economy.  We
would have extra money to spend on buying just like everyone else and this
would only help the economy.  We also need to think of what happens beyond
minimum wage also.  Once a person starts a job at minimum wage, he/ she
usually has the opportunity to advance his/ her salary several times during
their employment so ultimately he/ she would be making beyond minimum,
closer to a very comfortable wage depending on how hard a person wants to
work and how long he/ she stays with a given company.  The additional wages
and benefits that most Americans are enjoying should not be denied disabled
workers, not in America.  
Becca 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dmgina
Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:47 PM
To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] A ridiculous Question

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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