From: Juan.Mojena@p2.f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org (Juan Mojena)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: screen reader.
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:43:57 GMT
Reply-To: Juan.Mojena@p2.f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org
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TW> message as a forum to get something off my chest. I for one am sick
TW> and tired of the cry babies on this echo who live on social security
TW> disability or worse yet s.s.i. which is a national welfare program.
TW> at least s.s.a. disability you had to pay in to the program or your
TW> mommy or daddy did. where as s.s.i. is a handout. anyway there are
TW> bitchers and moaners on here who cry about they can't afford speech
TW> software or what ever but they are the first in line to grab a
TW> pirated demo and they even have the moxy to call the vender asking
TW> questions that they don't deserve an answer.
TW>                                               further more these cry
TW> babies won't get off their butts and try working many of whom live at
TW> home with mommy or daddy and they are not going to take a chance and
TW> maybe jepardize their  s.s.a. check or s.s.i. check.  these same cry
TW> babies however can afford cartons of cigaretts and six packs or cases
TW> of beer and always ready for a party. but ask them to pay $495 for a
TW> speech package and the poor mouth starts again.so come on and lets
TW> get real here and start buying your speech software not stealing it.

And who the hell are you to stand in judgement of a blind or handicapped
person living on ssi. Maybe they couldn't find a job.  I believe
that with all the unemployment and discrimination going on many find
it very difficult to secure employment, I sure did. I started teaching
mentally retarded children in 1983. I went through a lot of grief before
I found a school where I was accepted just like any other teacher.  I
even continued working when my Kidneys failed and I had to take Dialysis
treatments after work.  I got out of there at 10:00 or 11:00 at night.
All of the pain, bleeding and needles and feeling like I was going to
faint the next day standing on the subway because my blood pressure was
too low.

That's why I can't blame anyone who lives on s s i, because, it is
so very very difficult if your handicapped.  As for your $495.00
screen reading software, I hope you realize how exsorbitant that
price is.  That's more than my take home pay for one week.  As far
as I'm concerned, that's blood sucking and I don't care what you
think.  Since there are so many screen readers at this price, I
wonder, if they all didn't get together and fix the price.  Take
Arkenstone, aren't they supposed to be a non-profit organization?
I called them to ask about the software ocr.  I got the prices
including the scanner.  It turns out that I can get the scanner for
two hundred and fifty dollars less than they charge.  They're
supposed to be a non-profit organization and they charge almost
retail price.  That's outrageous!

Every little thing no matter what it is costs a great deal of money
when it's for the handicapped and someone like me ends up paying
for it.  So, I would appreciate it if you would get of your damned
soap box and stop judging others.  Pirating software isn't just
done by us, blind, whethere we're on s s i or not, it's a cronic
problem that occurs in society as a whole.  I don't know you
personally, but, I get the impression, from your unsynphathetic and
judgemental view of blind people, even if you're blind yourself,
that you dislike the very group that you belong to.

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