What the Arc of Texas did

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The Arc of Texas created a letter writing campaign to the legislatures. Four boxes of letters from Self Advocates and Caregivers were delivered to legislatures about not cutting funding for DErvices that people with disabilities need.

cool should be more people like this

It's cool, but odds are, they'll still cut it. They're cutting schools all over the state. Fort Worth ISD alone is having to lay off 1,000 teachers...

These budget cuts are regrettable. However they should not in of themselves remove hope.

myself I have always found it to be sick that states are consistently willing to spend more a year on keeping a person in prison than to compensate those who desire to help others overcome their disabilities (this includes what I earned as a house manager for a group home).

society at large has far to easy of a time at looking the other way. They can tell themselves that the institutions have been closed and now everything is wonderful.
Mind you they have never had to choose between having milk or having thick-it in the house. Or had to tell a crying woman w/ trisomy 21 (dr down is not worthy of any recognition) that she can't afford to buy her mother a gift for Christmas because she had to spend all of her money on medical expenses (yes, i bought it instead).

The reality is that here in america we have the finest government money can buy, and we, as a community don't have any to spare. We do still have the weapon of direct action, bringing greater community awareness to what is really at stake. Make clear that giving multi million dollar tax breaks to a handful of individuals has a cost, it means condemning those who are unable to care for themselves to a fate no moral human being could allow under their watch.
(i say this knowing all to well how grossly deficient the available services are for the vast majority of those who depend upon them)

oh wait did I just go on a rant there, (hmm maybe that should be my new signature)

Prisoners might complain they don't have cable television.