The excerpted article below comes to us from The Inclusion Daily Express. Our nation gleefully supports the bailout of Wall Street fat cats but shuts down vital services for the poor and elderly and the developmentally disabled. This is because they no longer teach civics in junior high. It’s also because thirty years of Reaganite obfuscation has scored the intelligence of politicians, rendering most elected officials nothing more than Social Darwinists.
S.K.
Hundreds Rally For Reversing Budget Cuts
(Columbia Flier)
October 26, 2009
ELLICOTT CITY, MARYLAND– [Excerpt] Pam Matheson spoke at a community rally Thursday night from her wheelchair, her 39-year-old adopted son at her side in his wheelchair.
“Matthew has wanted all his life to be a regular guy,” she told several legislators and more than 250 people who had crammed into Ellicott City Assembly of God Church to protest state budget cuts to developmental disabilities programs.
“He hated being at Rosewood [Center] and they’ve closed it, but now they’re decimating community services,” she said, referring to the $30 million in cuts made since July 1.
“Matthew was given the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness,” she said directly to state legislators seated in the front row. “Look Matthew and his peers in the eye and tell them why you’re taking their services away.”
Matheson was one of 17 speakers, some of them with development disabilities, to offer emotion-filled testimony about losing or not having programs they desperately need.
Entire article:
Cuts to programs for developmental disabilities protested
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2009/red/1026a.htm
Related:
Advocates for disabled protest (Baltimore Sun)
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2009/red/1026b.htm
Planet of the Blind 
Exactly right–and how does a federal bankruptcy court justify both approving millions upon millions of dollars of bonuses to execs to retain them and approving mass layoffs for the same company where most people in that field are out of work?
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