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From: Dan.Kysor@f998.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Kysor)
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Subject: Re: hot topic
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Date: 25 Jun 91 15:38:55 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

hi david.  driving first of all is not a right but rather, a
privelege but  reading and writting is a right in this country so i
still go back to the premise that education taught me to read and
write and so to practice this  right, i need to purchase a brailler
now at around $500 as apposed to a 50  cent pen.  there are
alternatives to transportation but sighted folks earn  the
privellege to drive so by the n f b and other groups, in the 40s,
50s have fought to compensate for these ecconomic disparities by
enstating financial government subsity programs such as s s i.
what's the difference between recieving discounts from society's
perception of the blind's ecconomic situation or receiving s s i
from society's same perception???

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