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“After 21 Years They’ve Decided We’re Only Worth Subminimum Wages After All!”
Yup! It’s true! Twenty-one years after the Americans With Disabilities Act was passed the good people that run this great country of ours want to Legalize pushing people with disabilities into Work Shelters who pay Subminimum Wages! Yes folks, “That includes Blind and Legally Blind People As well!” “Ain’t That Special?”
Yup! The geniuses on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sometimes known as the HELP Committee (and maybe soon known as something else if they vote on this come August 3, 2011 favorably), now have a bill before them, which if approved, would authorize agencies that are supposed to help disabled people find competitive employment to place them into Sheltered Workshops instead, under certain circumstance’s.
This new bill that they wish to slip this authorization in under is called the, “Workforce Investment Act,” and you can read more about it [By Clicking Right Here] and to find out more about how the National Federation For The Blind is organizing an informational protest on July 26, 2011 to let the good people on the Health Committee know that the section of this bill authorizing such behavior is unacceptable in this day and age and will only lead to gross exploitation of the disabled community if this is permitted to become legal.
It’s interesting to note how just last year there was a big deal made about the Twentieth Anniversary of the American Disabilities Act (signed into law on July 26, 1990) and this year agencies that are supposed to help disabled people find competitive work may be given authorization to do otherwise should they see fit.
Personally, it just gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling inside every time I think of this and how it’s so nice of our own government to be so quick to sell us down river simply because we’re differently abled! “NOT!”