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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">July 24 2012 Official Board
Correspondence MCB</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Mt. Morris, MI 48458</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="mailto:joeharcz@comcast.net">joeharcz@comcast.net</A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">(For today’s MCB meeting)</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">To: MCB Commissioners and
more</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></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,</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Make no mistake about it the
State Plan and EO 2012-10 is a mass misappropriation of federal taxpayer’s
dollars in to the hands of a non-vocational rehabilitation entity, Licensing and
Regulatory Affairs. It also misappropriates the voice and the rightful role of
people who are blind and disabled created in Public Act 260 and vested in part
with the Michigan Commission for the Blind Board. Again these actions take funds
and authorities that are supposed to be used for the vocational rehabilitation
and independent living of the blind and put them in to the hands of a government
apparatchik with no knowledge or willingness <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to apply <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>vocational rehabilitation <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>programs in general to wwe, those who are
blind after all. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now what is misappropriation?
Well in plain language it is theft.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">What is being stolen?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Well that is the $64 million.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>question.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">What is being stolen here is
employment opportunity, rehabilitation, and the future of tens of thousands of
blind Michiganders.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The right of the newly blinded
person to learn the skills of blindness including travel, Braille and the
acquisition and use of assistive technology is being stolen.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The right and the ability of
young blind folks to transition from school to work and or higher education is
being stolen.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oh, and current jobs are being
stolen not only in the BEP program but elsewhere.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Funny how Governor “Jobs” Snyder
is actively making these moves which will rob <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the meager jobs from blind folks right
now, or very soon in the Business Enterprise Program alone.</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">Oh, and then there is the issue
of misappropriation of millions of dollars of federally funded assets in the BEP
program to be accounted for. Oh, I guess they’ll just have a giant yard sale and
send it all to Treasury.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">These are the so-called
efficiencies that this EO and State Plan put in place.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oh, and yes we, the blind are
being robbed of something else very fundamental in a constitutional democracy.
We are being robbed of due process and simple justice. Do you hear that Mr.
Zimmer, you an officer of the court are violating the constitutional rights of
blind people and you dare to put that in writing, to codify this gross and moral
injustice, as a final insult to us.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The current generation of blind
people will be forced to be charitable wards of the state and folks will cluck
at those lazy blind people living on Social Security, food stamps and subsidized
housing if they can get that in the first place.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">At our last, and I mean last
Consumer Involvement Council meeting Jim More, who read the 200 plus pages of
the Braille version of the State Plan said, “It looks like we are going back to
the fifties.”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Yes ladies and gentlemen, we are
going there and worse.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thank you Governor Snyder, Mr.
Zimmer and all involved for this insidious, immoral, illegal and
un-Constitutional assault upon each and every one of us and for the bleak future
you are giving blind Michiganders.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thank you, Massa.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">As for the blind community who
caves to these outrages or other wise capitulates without a fight I have nothing
but pity,. But it sure isn’t changing what it means to be blind, unless of
course one means changing things for the worse.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">As for the staff or some of the
staff of the current corrupt and misguided MCB I will say this, “Mark my words
there will be pink slips come October 1 and thereafter.”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">But the way I see this thing
going it is likely competent and proficient counselors, O and M instructors, and
Vision Rehabilitation Teachers, along with support staff who will be going.</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">Good union folks will be the ones
hit.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So, ladies and gentlemen it is
back to the dark ages for us.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oh, you might get a job at
sub-minimum wages at the Peckham’s, New Horizons, and Kandus. I almost forgot
that part of our future.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Last blind person out of Michigan
please turn on the lights for those sighted bureaucrats. We wouldn’t want them
to bump in to anything or not be able to find their way back to their offices
without any raised character and Braille signs.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Sincerely,</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.</P>
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