On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Deborah Harrell wrote:
> --- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ----
> >
> <<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21575-2003Oct13?language=printer>>
> >
> > In Bethesda, Hiring Policy, 'Competitive Sourcing'
> > Clash
> > Naval Medical Center Considers Replacing Disabled
> > Workers
> >
> > President Bush's efforts to make government run more
> > like a business
> > collided this month with the reality that, in many
> > ways, government is not a business.
> >
> > For the past two years, the Navy, as part of the
> > Bush administration's
> > initiative, has been studying whether a private
> > contractor should take
> > over the custodial and food services provided by 21
> > federal employees at
> > the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda...
> <snip>
> > But in one important way the 21 workers in the
> > hospital scullery are
> > different: All are mentally retarded, beneficiaries
> > of federal policies
> > that promote the employment of people with
> > disabilities...
> <snip>
>
> So they can either be productively employed by the
> government, contributing to society and keeping the
> dignity of that contribution, or they can be 'dumped
> on the streets.' (There are also private companies
> that employ the mentally retarded, but local
> communities don't always have these progressive
> companies as resources.) Seems a fairly easy decision
> to me.
Before changing that flat tire I mentioned in an earlier post, I put on one of those bright-orange-with-reflective-stripes safety vests to hopefully lessen the probability that someone would fail to see me crouching there with the jack. Monday, in the daytime, when I was moving things out of the trunk before going to the tire place, I happened to notice the label on the inside of the vest which identified it as made by some company which billed itself as an industry for the blind . . .
Non-PC, But Ironic Maru
-- Ronn! :)
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