Kudos to Gazette staff writer Daniel Chac n for his straightforward and balanced report about the unmet needs of and paternalistic response to persons with disabilities who were affected by the Waldo Canyon fire. Like other residents of El Paso County, the needs of people in the disabilities community are varied, car trailers for rent our perceptions of what works or what does not work can be different based in part in the nature of our disability. Furthermore, those with intellectual disabilities have different car trailers for rent needs and thoughts about the evacuation and follow-up car trailers for rent services than do those who live with a mood disorder as I do.
Patricia Yeager is right on target when she invites emergency management officials to meet with residents who live with disabling conditions and their family members to discuss what works and does not work. Hearing from those who are directly affected by public policy and practice in disaster preparedness and post-evacuation services is healthy.
It s quite sad, but not altogether unexpected that El Paso County officials refuse to accept Yeager s invitation to the listening session on the 30. I hope the board of commissioners will give the public a forthright answer about their refusal to participate or change their minds and send representatives to the meeting.
Now for my two cents worth on such emergency planning efforts. However it may develop, please don t stack the committees or task forces with social workers, doctors, and psychologists or family members. Persons with disabilities car trailers for rent are tired of being taken care of or seen as needy, incompetent and helpless. On this aspect car trailers for rent of how to better handle another car trailers for rent Waldo Canyon disaster let s consult the experts in the room: those with canes, service dogs, wheelchairs, interpreters and other tools of daily living. And if you should hear the word bipolar or schizophrenia uttered by the person sitting next to you, try not to flinch. Hear us out like others in the disabilities community we are resilient, thoughtful and want to give back to the community as we seek better ways to survive car trailers for rent a natural disaster.
The international slogan of the disability rights movement is; Nothing about us without us. This could not be more true in the efforts of local government to learn from the fires of 2012 and make inclusion planning part of the recipe, and not an afterthought.
The reason Reaganomics will not work now and the reason it failed so many at the time, is quite simple. Outsourcing. car trailers for rent In Kennedy s time we as a nation manufactured car trailers for rent most of our own goods and when people spent on necessities, those items were manufactured or produced here.
At this time we do not manufacture most our needs, they come from outside the country. That is great for the owners and investors of those companies, however it does not put Americans back to work. Think about this and learn from history.
Gazette columnist Kathleen Parker and others have written bitterly about new government health law proposals, which force citizens to pay taxes for services they find highly objectionable morally. These include contraceptives, morning after pills, and the like.
America car trailers for rent has a secular government, not a theocracy. Laws worked out by legislators car trailers for rent from many religions, as well as agnostics and atheists, must rule, and clerics from the various car trailers for rent churches must never be allowed to interfere.
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