Frankly, I don't care *how* we all get to the same page as long as we 
*do* get there.  I deal with too many people whose lives have been 
totally upended by late on-set disabilities not to have sympathy for 
them.  And I'm just glad that Case's dad "saw the light" even though it 
might have been a bit late for Case. 

You said something about my being against taxes or something earlier in 
this discussion, I believe - I am not against taxes for programs that 
enabled disabled people to function with training, etc.  I am against 
taxes that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor.  I am also 
totally against welfare programs that exist purely to keep people on the 
dole and encourage their children to stay on the dole.  I am also 
pro-military but am totally against the war in Iraq, which I feel 
strongly was a strategic blunder on the part of the present 
administration that will resonate negatively in the years to come.  On 
the other hand. I am aghast at the Israelis for their actions against 
Lebannon - their is NO excuse whatsoever in my opinion, for what they 
are doing.

My dad was military and if it hadn't been for the military and its 
marvellous support system, my family would have been much worse off - my 
mother would never had been able to afford her med during her last 
illness nor some of the treatments if it had not been for the benefits 
of being a officer's widow.  So I am immensely grateful to the Air Force.


Kat



  


Linda Walker wrote:
> Exactly right....being disabled and getting older and becoming 
> disabled with age are entirely different.
>
> At 07:52 AM 7/25/2006, you wrote:
>> As the first of the baby boomers are reaching their sixties, IMHO,
>> another Grey Panthers movement is likely; I'm hoping that the line
>> between "having difficulty getting around because you're getting older"
>> and having a disability will not be as sharply drawn.  I look at people
>> in my parent's and grandparent's generations, and still see a strong "us
>> vs. them" bias, particularly toward people who are perceived as having
>> cognitive disabilities.
>>
>> Kendall=20
>>
>> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>>
>> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
>> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
>>
>> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:01 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] Disability Right (was: Re: Case)
>>
>> =20
>> In a message dated 7/24/2006 8:11:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, =20
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> We  really need another Grey Panthers movement, really we  do
>>
>>
>> No joke there!  I wonder if it'll ever  happen.
>>
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