Thank you for your insightful remarks and recommendation to read the book.
As the Columbus Free Press reviewer Bob Powers said of the book "Rights of the disabled attract little attention. It is human nature to look away. " http://www.freepress.org/books/ramps
But business dominated disability policy - what happens to those who are perceived as unable to produce for the capitalists - is truly a barometer for the "progress" or lack of it in our over-capitalized civilization.
In solidarity, Marta
Doyle Saylor wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I saw Marta Russell's note about the Nationa editorial concerning
> Social Security. I recently read Marta's book: "Beyond Ramps". Took me
> a little while to get through it, and I've loaned it out to a friend of
> mine already. Marta went into detail about the effect upon Social
> Security of Clinton and his minions etc. As well as the previous
> business oriented policies of the Repubs. I want to heartily recommend
> this book. The book is a survey in passionate depth of disability in
> our culture, and the mechanisms ideologically and socially to oppress
> the disabled. Chock full of facts.
> I take note here too that a writer such as Marta is barely scraping by
> on the book sales. Our culture is being destroyed because of the
> corporate methods make getting our words out to people excedingly hard
> and treacherous. Whoever reads LBO who is an academic and can put
> Marta's book on their reading list could make her ideas much wider read,
> and support her analysis much more than someone like myself who mostly
> could pass the word out about the book person to person.
> Disability will be sorely hit by the cutbacks against Social Security,
> but disability is the target of the most vicious bigotry, including the
> mass murderor Kevorkian, whose attorney apparently has won the demo
> primary in Michigan. This scum practices the lowest and most base
> predjudice against disabled people, as to make his career upon the
> "suicide" of his clients victims.
> regards,
> Doyle Saylor