🚀 go-pugleaf

"Jim Bianchi" <jimbo@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:slrnbh1i2g.k9t.jimbo@bolt.sonic.net...
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:30:12 -0500, Julian Macassey <julian@tele.com>
wrote:
> >On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:04:12 GMT, Jim Bianchi <jimbo@sonic.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I take exception to your closing comments, sir. I am on Section 8
> >> housing relief, as are 43 others in the apt complex in which I live. I
am
> >> disabled and elderly both,
> >
> > What do you mean by disabled? You are obviously capable
> >of sitting at a terminal and posting to usenet.
>
> Disabled -- I cannot talk or handwrite. I type fairly slowly using
> only one hand. I've tried to work in my previous job as a computer repair
> tech. But the talking required when training and in the workplace itself
was
> something of which I was incapable. I thought I could get by by typing my
> questions, but for a variety of reasons, that was impossible too. I also
> cannot walk. I am 100% wheelchair bound. I use a motorised 'chair since it
> is impossible to manuver a manual chair with only one hand/arm. I am also
59
> years old. I have the absolute minimum net connection (dial up, 56kbps)
> using a system that was given me by a friend. I'll admit the essential
> justice of your statement that I am living on (some of) your tax money.
>

Again, it is people like you the system is designed for.  No one likes
taxes, and I pay quite a bit, but this is what it is for.  This I do not
mind at all.

> -- 
> jimbo@sonic.net
> Eclectic Garbanzo BBS, (707) 539-1279
>
> "My parents just came back from a planet where the dominant lifeform
> had no bilateral symmetry, and all I got was this stupid F-Shirt."