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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Looking Into My Crystal Ball</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Ladies and Gentlemen of NFB and
ACB and those who are blind:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">If the current MCB plan and EO
2012-10 goes through as is then let’s look in to the crystal ball for the future
of blind people here.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The theft of business enterprise
locations won’t be a worry. Why? There won’t be any.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">We won’t have to worry about
getting calls back in two years, because they won’t come in your lifetime.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Eventually the Michigan
Commission for the Blind Training Center will be shut down and sold to some
other entity for some other purpose just like the Michigan School for the Blind
was. Oh they might promise that the state will put proceeds in a trust to
provide in home itinerate training services, but we know what happened with
similar promises concerning the blind trust.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So no blindness skills training
for you. No travel instruction, Braille or assistive technology for the newly
blind. No jobs either. Oh likely no state library services either (I almost
forgot that). Don’t worry blind people don’t need to learn those things like
reading and writing and getting around in the world. Don’t worry you cute little
pets and pawns.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>is just a glimpse in to the future for
blind people here in Michigan.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oh, some will have some
appointments to a worthless advisory committee for awhile serving at the
pleasure of the Governor. It might even have a closed meeting or two funded by
Mike Zimmer. He hasn’t decided how he’ll use all the federal Vocational
Rehabilitation money yet. Isn’t the handful of sellouts grateful though at how
he talked with you in the past and assured you like good little boys and girls
not to worry, because everything will be all right? I mean they are professional
bureaucrats after all. Trust them. They know what they are doing. If you don’t
believe them then just ask them.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oh, for the staff of MCB or the
bulk of it except for the higher ups you should be getting your resumes in
order, or you might just wish to check in to the status of your retirement </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Don’t worry about Pat Cannon
though. He ain’t going nowhere as they say. He’ll be a king without a country: a
King without pawns, and he will still be the proverbial naked emporor. But,
he’ll no longer have anyone to say how beautiful his clothes are.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Joe <SPAN
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