Frank wrote, "you claim to be in support of the working class but rail against these few rare opportunities for the average working class slob(Prostitute) to take home a paycheck".
That's an interesting point, Frank. Where should blind people take a stand? Should we show our support for the Working/Middle Class by endorsing off-shore drilling because it gives working stiffs a job? Should we defend the right of Sweat Shops to hire children and work employees 14 hours per day in hopes that some of us blind workers might have jobs? Perhaps we could eliminate unemployment compensation totally in order to help encourage unemployed workers into substandard jobs. Or just eliminate the wage minimum to allow employers to hire lots of workers.
Now regarding prostitution as an employment opportunity, I have no position on what consenting adults do, for fun or profit. But what I think we blind people need to consider is whether we are allowing certain members of our society to be enslaved and forced into working conditions that we would never wish upon our own children, let alone upon ourselves. If we cannot understand that we must stand for the right of citizens to gather and bargain collectively for better working conditions and decent pay, then we will find ourselves among the disenfranchised. We will all be either standing on the street corners or selling our bodies. That is the lot of the blind in empoverished nations.
Curious Carl
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