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From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: Off Topic - Jaws 7.1 Memory requirements


>I don't know, but I see people every day who will realistically never
> work, being given thousands of dollars worth of equipment that I who
> trudge off to work every day, will never be able to afford or get
> anybody to buy for me.  I mean note takers, with the latest and
> greatest updates, GPS, blue tooth embossers and the most modern
> braille displays, Not to mention service agreements, update
> contracts, computers scanners, screen readers, OCR programs, and
> Internet as well.
> Their are people who get this stuff who have worked, and or will work
> in the future.  I don't mind those people getting equipment and
> training.   But that is a small per centage.  Worse of all, they are
> doing it with my money.  That's right, the equipment I can never
> dream of affording to get, that would make my life as a tax payer so
> much easier; is being purchased with my money for people who have
> never, and will never hold down a paying job in their lives.  They
> will never pay taxes, support families, buy houses or be able to
> financially invest in anything.
>
> Gee, when we reward disfunctional behavior, what do you think we are
> going to get more of?
>
> I would give every legally blind person an old computer, demo copies
> of a screen reader and freeware aplications, as well as training.  I
> believe that what computer technology can do for us is as basic as
> the rights of children to go to school.  This can be done for $100 a
> person.  Anything else, you have to show concreete evidence of being
> able to get use out of.  I see high school graduates, with their
> braille notes over their shoulders, who can't write a paragraph on a
> slate and stylus.  Let's see, $6,000 for a note taker, $30 for a
> slate and a bunch of stylusses that will last a lifetime.  They use
> our money to buy the technology rather than demand that their
> teachers are qualified enough to teach them the slate.
>
> GPS, great!  That is if you are often in unknown territory.  If not,
> lurn how to memorize, and ask questions.  We who can't buy an
> optional technology at least in the reel world; must go with out it.
>
> If I quit my job, and say I want to return to work, you all will buy
> it for me.
> I do wonder why I am working?
>
>
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