[NFBMT] vote early and often

[Jim Marks]

Actually, the loss of vocational rehabilitation funding would really hurt
the private and non-profit organizations that provide vocational
rehabilitation services.  So, yes, if VR funds end up being cut heavily, the
NFB Centers and others will lose revenue and likely may not be able to
survive.  Fortunately, late yesterday, I learned that the US Congress
Republican leadership committed to sustaining VR and other similar program
funding.  I think it's going to be OK, but please know it's only OK if
outfits like the NFB-MT keep advocating for our interests.  We have to stay
on this stuff because our lives depend on it.


Jim Marks
Blind.grizzly at gmail.com
(406) 438-1421

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Subject: Re: [NFBMT] vote early and often

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/>



> Live the life you want



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