50% of Workers Made Less Than $26,000 : keeping it blindness focused

Subject: 50% of Workers Made Less Than $26,000 : keeping it blindness focused

As blind people, our hopes for a better world can not rest on the back of one man.  Nor can they be tied to only one Political Party or another. 

While we can debate the causes and who is responsible, nonetheless we are caught in a major recession(depression).  Fighting one another or calling names at public official or political parties will only drive us apart.  We in the ACB are in this together.  Even those of us who feel our lives are safe and secure.  Even as safe as my life appears to be at present, I have many friends within my state organization who are being pressed to the wall.  And what a small disaster might push me into similar circumstances.  A heart attack?  Cancer? 

My daughter develop Rheumatoid Arthritis and her medical bills far outstretch her health coverage.  And then her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's.  Talk about a heavy load to bear. 

So it could hit any of us at any point in our lives. 

The central question should be, What are we, the ACB, going to do about the world we find ourselves in? 

Spreading blame might make us feel better for a moment, but it will not put bread on the table or pay the rent. 

What can we as an organization offer to our people, our blind brothers and sisters when they need our support? 

On Blind Democracy, I rant and rave because that is the nature of that list.  I am a Radical and that is what we Radicals are supposed to do. 

But this is the ACB list and we should be pulling together, not undermining individuals beliefs. 

So, what are each of us thinking?  How do we move this organization into a place where we are truly an effective force in blind people's lives? 

 

Carl Jarvis