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From: Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: Legislative Alert
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:02:06 GMT
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 BM>> disabilities.  It is the ONLY financial incentive available
 BM>> to employers who hire people with disabilities and it must be
 BM>> extended.
     
          You seem to be implying that the work performed by people 
  with disabilities is not financially equal.  Many employers hired 
  the disabled long before the incentive was available and will 
  continue to do so even if the TJTC ceases to exists.
     
        In 1914 Henry Ford introduced the $5 day which doubled 
the wages of the working man.  He also made a point of hiring the 
handicapped, giving jobs by the thousands to the blind, the deaf, 
epileptics, and those missing limbs. Most were thouht to be 
unemployable anywhere else.  After WW-I, handicapped veterans 
were welcomed.  And at one time, Ford had as many as 600 former 
convicts on his payroll, most of whom came directly to him from 
prison.  

        Henry Ford was America's greatest entreprenuer and there 
has never been anyone like him since.  In 1915 he stated his 
driving credo, "I believe that I can do the world no greater 
service than to create more work for more men at larger pay."

        The employer does not need an incentive to hire a good 
worker.  There are many proud good handicapped workers in the 
marketplace and your implication that employers will not hire 
them without a tax break is spreading a false impression.  I 
suggest you check the efforts of DuPont, ICI, and Holiday Inn in 
hiring the disabled.
                                -=joe=-

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