Be an advocate for every disabled person. Children grow into adults. We can be health one day and a handicapped person the next. No one asks to be handicapped. Bert your compassion under whelms me

Obviously Burt you don't have a disabled child or other family member to know that the costs of raising a special needs child is incredible! Physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, the list goes on and on...most insurance only pays for 20 visits a year if you're lucky. Otherwise the $3000 a month is on you as a parent. Not to mention the visits with all the doctors & specialists. Then try to get out and about with these precious kids and you find out what people are made of. I hope you never have to deal with this...but then again God only gives these precious kids to people who can handle it...and can find ways to be an advocate for the child that can't talk or walk. Someone has to stand up for them...I guess we won't count on you...you know, I really feel sorry for you Burt...

Obviously you all don't know a lot of disabled people. Most that I know work. I know very few disabled people who ask for much of anything. It is a very lonely world for a lot of them. When you park in their parking places,crowd in front of them going through a door or act like they are less than human it makes them feel like a failure. But for the Grace of God.

You'd think the legislators would notice the handicap tags and stickers in their parking lots, the extra wide doors to the capitol (which they thought were for the extra girth so many legislators bring to Oklahoma City), and the restroom facilities they share with their constituents. They might even notice the wheelchairs in the capitol cafeteria and the ramps outside the building, seeing eye dogs and people wearing sunglasses in the corridors. But probably not. This is only the 14th Annual meeting after all. Of course the disabled asked for moremoney; why go to the capitol if you don't want any money? You think people choose to hobnob with the disabled? When was the last time you invited a disabled person to dinner at your house? Gave their dog a drink of water? Stopped traffic so the wheelchair could get the rest of the way across the street? Warned the visually impaired about the bird droppings on the sidewalk? And, of course, Henry said he will do everything in his power to convince the loving, tolerant, giving and sensitive representatives of the people of Oklahoma to provide more money for the disabled. Just as soon as the budget shortfalls permit him to do so. And when the 15th Annual meeting occurs, we'll do it all over again. It's what loving and tolerant Oklahomans do.

Survival of the fittest, eh, burt?