Oh gee Beth, where will your dad go?  take care! mag.

Tamar Mag Raine
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Oakland Mayor's Commission on People with disabilities


> [Original Message]
> From: Elizabeth Thiers <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 9/29/2004 9:46:38 AM
> Subject: Hurrican update and RE: [DGV] Halting Progress for the
Disabled(fwd)
>
> Your speaking to the choir here.
>
> Oh, We've survived Jeanne with more shingles and debris in the yard.
Only 8
> hours without power and phone so, we did much better than most.  Friends
in
> Pt St. Lucie all got hit pretty bad with days without power and phone
(yes,
> even land lines go down during the hurricane, no power, no switches).  My
> Dad's house (pre-Andrew), is totalled now, he and his wife are in shock.
> Other friends near Disney have inside wall damage with some flooding in
> house.
> Some neighborhoods are eerily intact, others show lots of damage.
>
> Beth t the OT
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> Subject: Re: [DGV] Halting Progress for the Disabled (fwd)
>
> Oh, don't even get me started.  I live in a double Bush state.  Talk
about a
> bunch of unfunded mandates.  Schools are so bogged down with the minimally
> funded No Child Left Behind act, that special education has become even
more
> of a fight for the children I work with.
>
>
> Beth, Kat, Cindy and Gary,
>
>
>     Bush has been a disaster for social service programs. The deficit, the
> war and many other "urgent programs" are siphoning billions away from
human
> social programs. The only reason he funded "No Child Left Behind" is to
have
> something Laura could work toward.It's all about oil. There is no
> coincidence oil is $50 a barrel! All the $ desiignated for the disabled
and
> others is now funneled to the war on terror, which we are losing in an
> absurd, stupid and expensive way.
>
> Bobby