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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
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Date: 18 Jun 91 16:13:37 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 BH> David; I agree with you one hundred percent.  I travel by bus, air, and
 BH> train quite a bit.  I don't feel that just because I'm blind that I should
 BH> get a discount.  Many people argue that blind people are in general at a
 BH> lower income than sighted people, and that just the fact they're going out
 BH> is good enough to warrant half fair.  I don't buy this premes.

Beth, tell me, are you going to pay the full price of a hotel room
in New Orleans when you come to the NFB convention.   You don't
think that price that NFB negotiated is a full hotel price do you.
It is far from it.  As far as convention rates are concerned, there
isn't a sighted convention who can get anywhere near that rate.
There are sighted conventions who come down here a lot larger than
the NFB, and there rates are not discounted near that much.

               Walter

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