[NFBMT] vote early and often

[Bruce&Joy Breslauer]

No, just those who depend on government funded programs like vocational
rehabilitation.

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Subject: Re: [NFBMT] vote early and often

If the blind rehabs closed, would this also effect the federation in the
states who is teaching blind skills anything like that?

Original message:
> I got a call today from a toll free number.  A nice friendly African
> American lady was on the other end of the line, representing an
> organization whose name I have since forgotten, wanting me to call my
> Republican Senator and urge him to vote for the tax bill currently
> being debated in the Senate.  I politely declined, telling her I had
> already contacted him.  She asked me if I wanted to do it again.  She
> said she could transfer me right over, and it wouldn't take a moment.
> I then told her that I had already contacted my Senator, and that I
> had urged him not to vote for the tax bill.  She took a small breath
> while she changed gears, and said she understood and thanked me and
> told me to have a good day.  I was shocked and didn't know whether to laugh
or be angry.



> These people are serious, folks.  I don't know what the final bill
> will be by the time the House and senate get through compromising, or
> not, but I have serious concerns about what I have heard so far during the
senate debate.
> The agenda seems to be to construct this huge tax overhaul bill behind
> closed doors without bipartisan input, and to push this through as
> quickly as possible, without any public hearings.  I don't know what the
burnt hurry is.
> I feel like we are being thrown under the bus.  This seems to be
> insanity to me, and I don't know where we left the rails.  I did hear
> someone say last week that we are in the state we are because social
> media gives equal time and equal weight to truth and falsehood,
> without any way to discern between them.  We are taught these days
> that truth is not discernible, what is true for you may not be true
> for me.  Anyone who thinks differently is above a certain age or is
> not enlightened or holds beliefs that are archaic and not relevant to
> these present times in which we live.  I could say hogwash, but that
> wouldn't change anyone's mind; it would just cement the idea in other
> minds that my mind is closed and I want to bury my head in the sand and
live in a fairyland world that doesn't exist anymore, and thank goodness for
that.




> These are my own personal views, not necessarily the views of the
> National Federation of the Blind or any of its members.



> As my stomach turns,



> Joy Breslauer

> President

> National Federation of the Blind of Montana

> Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/>



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