First of all, no funding already in place will be cut. No one is losing funding.

Second of all, the vocational assistance is only to revamp the vocation offices, not to help people find jobs. The Medicare money has many stipulations on it that only low income areas and states must match certain criteria to get those funds.

Third, the states have very little say in where the money goes. The feds have mandated everything across the board. This bothers me because what works in New York schools, does not work in Texas schools.

Fourth and probably the most important, is the feds have written the right in the bill to change anything and everything about how the money is spent after the bill gets passed. Just like what happened with the TARP bill. That money was supposed to go to help the homeowners in foreclosure. The feds changed their mind and gave it to the banks.

I wish people would see this for what it is, but they have been manipulated by scare tactics to push through something that will ultimately hurt them. If you want to fight for additional disability funding, fight for individual bills, not one giant one that will never see the disability community anyway.

Although I fear the damage has already been done. It will probably pass, and unfortunately we will all be disappointed that the money was not used as it was originally planned. Thanks for listening.