People, with all the budget cuts happening please stay on top of your legislatures and our leaders to insure that we can still rally whatever funding we can for care for special needs. Our special needs children, siblings and parents are in need of support and let’s face it, if you are doing it yourself, it isn’t easy, is it?
There has been a concerted effort to cut support from government, business and any other sources of money due to a few reasons:
1. We are an easy target at first glance. People think that, oh, look at them, they can’t complain and they don’t have money to donate to us, so we can chop any funding to them.
That generally is a person’s frame of mind in government until they have a daughter with Rett Syndrome, Down, or autism. All of a sudden they change their tune. It makes sense because people tend to be selfish and it is a question though of being wisely selfish.
If you cut off funding for care for special needs, there will be more special needs people on the streets with the people who don’t have special needs. What are you going to do with them? Let them become prey for predators or let them die?
There is a lot of money still being moved around at the State level for things that we don’t need and we need to keep money in the coffers for people who can’t help themselves. The same holds true at the Federal level. Please write to the people in charge and let them know you aren’t happy.
Be ready to vote in people that are going to help get the funding to the people who need it and get jobs to all of us who are in need of employment. The Depression stinks and it stinks even worse for people who can’t help themselves through no fault of their own. It is one thing for somebody to live beyond their means intentionally and another for somebody who was working who has no intellectual capacity to understand what is going on to have to suffer as well. Yeah, I may be talking fairy tale land here because of the real world economics but if I don’t speak up for the people who can’t speak for themselves, who will? Everybody is fighting to keep what money they have in funding and Congress has to get things going and keep whatever programs are still around still salvaged and viable.
If you have any kind of extra money and can give it to groups like Rett Syndrome research or the charity of your choice, please do what you can to help out.
2. The lobby groups for special needs generally aren’t as strong as defense or automotive lobby groups. Sure, some of the lobbyists may be the same but it is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease and we need to keep the cash coming and have well-oiled care in place for our family members who can’t take care of themselves.
3. Keep programs in places that help people get employed – whether they are special needs or not. We need more people working now so they will have money to live and help take care of people who can’t take of themselves. We get it. If people can’t take care of themselves first, they won’t want to take care of other people.
Just my general rant for the end of the month.
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July 31 2009
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Kim Isaac Greenblatt
Special Needs Care and Funding July 31 2009