From: Steve.Matzura@f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Matzura)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: screen reader.
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:07:04 GMT
Reply-To: Steve.Matzura@f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org
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 > message as a forum to get something off my chest. I for one am sick
 > and tired of the cry babies on this echo who live on social security
 > disability or worse yet s.s.i. which is a national welfare program.
 > bitchers and moaners on here who cry about they can't afford speech
 > software or what ever but they are the first in line to grab a
 > pirated demo and they even have the moxy to call the vender asking
 > questions that they don't deserve an answer.

OK, let's start from Square One.  Tell me how you, a person living
on four, maybe five hundred dollars a month, with your subsidized
rent being approximately 25 percent of that, can ever save enough
money to purchase these things at the prices they're charging?  If,
for example, you could save, and I mean really save, fifty dollars
a month, it wouldn't take a Ph.D. in calculus to figure out that it
would take ten months for you to save enough money to purchase
something that costs five hundred dollars--one month's income for
you.

Now, supposing somewhere along the way you had an extra expense
that whatever medical insurance you might have didn't cover.  There
goes your savings.

And let's not forget that if the Social Security boys find out
you're saving, your benefits get cut!  Sure, you can save it in a
sock under your mattress, but there's no security in that--what
happens if you're burglarized or your place catches fire or
something?  WHOOSH, there goes your money up in smoke or whatever.
If you want to save by giving a friend charge of your fifty bucks a
month, that friend had better be damned trustworthy.  You see the
pickle?

 > babies won't get off their butts and try working many of whom live at
 > home with mommy or daddy and they are not going to take a chance and
 > maybe jepardize their  s.s.a. check or s.s.i. check.  these same cry
 > babies however can afford cartons of cigaretts and six packs or cases
 > of beer and always ready for a party. but ask them to pay $495 for a
 > speech package and the poor mouth starts again.

You betcha!  Cartons of cigarettes and cases of beer are more
important to them at this time.  The problem is that they don't
realize this.  The other problem is that, even if they were to quit
smoking and drinking beer tomorrow, well, there'd be your fifty
bucks, maybe seventy-five, a month, and, let's face it, money burns
holes in people's pockets.

Re jeopardizing their checks, yes, I already addressed that one.
Think about it.  If you were getting six, seven, eight thousand
dollars a year clear and could go to work for maybe twelve thousand
dollars a year, would you do it?  I wonder...  Not everyone can
land a job that can pay them more than what they would make just
sitting home and going to the mailbox once a month.  That,
unfortunately, is a problem with the system, not the individuals on
the system.  Lots of people don't have the work ethic instilled in
them that you obviously do.  So many reasons ....

 > so come on and lets
 > get real here and start buying your speech software not stealing it.

I'll just wind up by saying that I do agree with you that piracy is
part of what drives the prices of this up as high as they are, but
get real yourself, if the prices weren't so high to begin with,
more people would want to, and be able to afford to, buy this
stuff.

I won't even get further into who works and who doesn't with you,
that can be an entirely different thread, on which I have some very
firm unshakable views myself.

QUARKBAR - the candy with flavour and charm.

... Via FrontDoor 2.02/NC

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