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I apologize if I misqouted your full name, Alex.

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Alex, I would like to do what you have done for us.

For The Win! FTW!

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I am open for questions... consider this as a Press Conference!

Ask me any question, I want to make sure we get a better understanding on this mater.

My first- and only- questions is this: Who is gonna pay for all of it? A good chunk of my tax dollars have already gone to bank and potential automotive bail-outs. Yet due to state budgetary cut-backs I'm being laid-off this Friday.
The Autism Act Reform Act of 2009 only means increased taxes- which I cannot support much less afford.

The video is private and won't let me watch it.

What we are trying to do is update the law and knock out Autism Speak's own "idea" on creating idea for autism.

Our tax dollars are spent in healthcare and following a incomplete idea on Combating Autism Act. In US, we are having people spending money after money for therapies for autistic children. In our current economic situation, we are living in a recession which can take between 5-10 years to recover from it. People are becoming unemployed, this has made a impact on adults that are taking care of autistic children.

If the adults can't pay any more bill to take care of autistic children, they will file for bankrupt which will eventually take tax dollars.

Are We?

A. Going to stop giving therapies to autistic children. Stop helping the autistic people from poverty?

OR

B. Help the autistic children as well as bringing autistic people into society where they can live freely and earned the respect from Washington DC?



In the Autism Reform Act of 2009, I want to call it an huge investment to promote the autism community and to have a bigger awareness that we are community that will produce Einstein and other smart people. The problem in news media, they are looking for celebrity rather than ordinary people like us who can do and study the things we craved on.

If we increase the production of technology produced from autistic people, this would be a great benefit for US. We the autistic community carry a huge legend!

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The video has been fixed. I appologize for my lack of knowledge on YouTube's private video feature.

I guess I'm confused about what exactly the purpose is. Is the goal just to say to everyone, "Hey, auties/Aspies can do great things, so don't mourn your autistic child", or is it more geared at improving insurance coverage of autism or improving coverage of services for adult Aspies/auties? The first one I would not support, as I don't think spending money on media promotion of a different "image" of autism would make sense in this economic climate, but the second one I would.

In "The Autism Reform Act of 2009" it is designed for everyone, there are several more reason to support it.

The image for autistic people aren't enough. I want to go further and show more autistic people that has been doing extraordinary things. I believe we have some self-esteem problems that downgrade our pride. I am not saying that every people can be genius. I am saying that being a genius required certain genetic makeup.

Extraordinary people aren't just born BUT made! I was able to conclude that you have to be born the right stuff and to be made "train" to become extraordinary.

People with autism have obsession that allow them to self-train themselve toward certain interests.

More question please!

LOL, an American complaining about tax... In Canada we pay at least twice as much tax as you do, that is twice as much as the more heavily taxed states, and we often wonder where all the tax dollars go, and think we should be getting more than what we do for them. Overall, I would much rather be stick paying the higher Canadian taxes and getting very usefull benefits from it, such as the health care system we have.

I'm aware of some of the differences in taxation. I thought Canadian Income Tax was anywhere from 15 to 29 percent. Currently I am taxed at just a tad under 20%. Add to that the nearly 8% sales tax (if you live in Alberta, you don't pay a sales tax on goods except lodging, correct?) and it can be argued that for every dollar in and out of my hands, the gubment gets almost thirty cents of it. And I still don't have health insurance.
But we are digressing far from the Original Topic- my apologies.

The sales tax is actually 8 % for a federal sales tax, and even alberta pays that, plus a provincial sales tax on top of that, so in ontario, thats a 13% sales tax total, plus alcohol in the states is dirt cheap: in Florida when my family was at Disney, we found that at stores that carried it we could get a 40 of rum for about $20, the same bottle in Canada, due to taxes, costs at least twice that. Gas is more expensive here because of how we tax it. There are some other things too.

Well, I don't know what to tell ya, buddy. I have 2 jobs, both at minumum wage and after taxes I still don't have enough money to make ends meet. It makes considering the proposed gross expenditures outlined in the ARA 2009 seem ridiculous, not to mention unlikely.

What is minimum wage where you are anyways?

EDIT: where I am minimum wage is $8.75/hr and will be at roughly $10 in a few years

Our minumum wages is $7.55 per hour

Not quite as bad as it could be, but it would still be very difficult to do anything with that, especially once you factor in medical, which is generally the biggest cash killer from what I've heard.