2012 Budget

The demolition of lives I think is how best to describe yesterday's dreadful Budget.  was it Eamonn Gilmore or Enda Kenny who said pre-budget that the budget had 'protected the most vulnerable'!  are they living on another planet.

I don't, myself like being judged 'vulnerable' just because I am disabled, afterall every human being is vulnerable one way or another.  However in general public perceptions disabled, sick and elderly and children ARE perceived as vulnerable and they have all just been made MORE vulnerable.

But put another way our HUMAN RIGHTS have been walked all over by this budget.  It is a human right to lives lives worth living.  It is a human right to have food, warmth, and shelter.  It is a human right to have medical care and support services.  These rights are there to enable those of us who are judged 'vulnerable' to have additional protection.

This government has run roughshod through our HUMAN RIGHTS. 

This is therefore not about a BUDGET, but about discrimination.  Discrimination on the basis of our conditions, and stemming from hitlarian mentality that we are 'useless eaters', 'untermenschion' (Sub Human), these are the terms used by hitler to justify killing disabled people in gas chambers before he ever started on the jewish population.  We have always been viewed as 'costly', as 'a drain on the state' and some of the comments made on Journal.ie in relation to welfare cuts all show this Hilarian mentality.

It does not go unnoticed by politicians and journalists who subliminally discuss the HUGE welfare costs as if the Country's crises was all our fault!

it's a scary position to be in.  First more costs piled on, cuts in services and benefits and on top of that the view we are a drain on the state and thus cause the crises.  How are we to live with this onslought?

we fight back, we challange, we protest and we demand our human Rights.  We do not cave in in despair, we cannot do that because we owe it to disabled children coming after us to change Hilarian Mentality NOW!

I'm trying to do my best and if I hadn't got one hell of a stinking cold I'd be outside leinster House today.  I will try to get there next week.

Know you are loved by this campaigner.  I'm sorry we are all suffering, but one thing I know...it was not our fault.