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From: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Pending Expulsion from NFB
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Date: 4 Feb 91 16:59:30 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DA> The vending machines which the NFB is placing around the
 DA> country dispense gum balls, peanuts etc.  These are small
 DA> change items which certainly aren't going to threaten the
 DA> income of any blind vendor.  This is another case of mis-
 DA> information and everyone assuming the worst about the NFB!

David,
    Excuse me, but why do you say this is misinformation???
     Frankly, I've tried to remain as neutral in this whole NFB thing as
possible, but Grant's saying that the NFB is putting vending machines in
the same buildings as vending stand operators, and that it would affect
the incomes of those vending machine operators, can't possibly be
referred to as "misinformation", because by your own response to him, I
can see it is a fact!
     You don't seem to be catching all the mail here anymore, but I
believe Loretta Trees just left a message describing her operation of a
"Dry Stand", in which she handles exactly the type of items you say are
present in the NFB machines!  Even if it wern't for this fact, how can
you possibly be so presumptious as to judge what is and what is not a
substantial portion of a vending stand operators income!!!  For some
reason, I can see the NFB position to be just the opposite if it were
they who ran the vending stands and someone came into their domain with
machines!!!  Then I would guess the cry would be "a single penny taken
from our operator's hands is too much!"

     Then again David, I don't ever expect to see a loyal NFB member to
post here that the NFB may have made a mistake, nor does anyone else I
bet.  That's ok, and actually, I appreciate the loyalty the NFB seems to
continue to be able to foster in its membership, but for sure, the
tactic of attaching words like "misinformation" to anything disagreeing
with NFB policy isn't going to work here to camoflouge the truth!
                                                        Willie

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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