Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposes to privatize the long-term care system, which would have dire consequences for people with disabilities and the elderly.It would lower care attendants’ wages, making the care profession undesirable as a job. There is already a shortage of care attendants when the care profession is one of the fastest growing jobs in America. Doesn’t Wisconsin need jobs?Walker’s plan would eliminate a client’s right to interview, hire and fire their attendants. In the long run the governor’s new long-term care plan would create waiting lists for the elderly and the disabled, costing the state more revenue. Inevitably, people with disabilities and the elderly would end up living in institutions hiding these special people in closets. Is this how Wisconsin treats the disabled?
Update: Second Letter March 19th, 2015 - Can Home Health Care be Saved ...See Isthmus article, March 19-25, 2015,Vol. 40, No. 11, Madison, Wisconsin
page 23 - A tale of perseverance by Mary Ellen Bell
Steve,
You are an inspiration to all. Keep up the good fight and enjoy your well deserved vacation! Nearly 20,000 views on your video. Keep telling your story.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Steven Salmon <stevensalmon@charter.net> wrote:
Please read an Isthmus article today about a CP author who uses Morse code to write since he is unable to use his hands. In fact he edited two manuscripts in three months. One manuscript is a middle grade represented by the Purcell Agency and the other manuscript is an adult fiction. Amazing!Post.Dear State of Wisconsin and Governor Walker,My name is Steven Salmon. A real author with severe Cerebral palsy. I have three published books and soon to be a fourth book published. I use Morse code to write since I can't use my hands tapping one letter at a time making my dream come true. Forward right, Governor! ? Your right to work is destroying home health care. People don't want to work for eleven dollars to hour to care for the disabled in their homes. During the last six weeks I had only one interview that fell apart! My only other attendant has picked up more hours, but he has another client and deserves a break. CLA is at fault, but needs more revenue to pay attendants a decent wage to live to care for the disabled. I lost one of the best care attendants that I ever had because of low pay. No one applies for jobs at the Community Living Alliance to be care attendants. The one On Call injured worker covering one thousand clients who can't even roll over a person in bed or run the hoyer. My seventy five year old mother has to do everything. Meanwhile I keep moving onward making my dream happen working after midnight. Day after day I write wondering will I end up in a home watching TV all day. Should I give up because the State is too cheap to care? Giving up isn't an option. Sorry, Governor. I'm going to be a thorn in your side while you go mud raking across the country with the Kock's brothers' money. You're going to fail, Governor! I will bet a book on it! A talented educated physically disabled person like me needs and deserves the best care that the State can provide. I will always be just a number to the system. Only a few see the fire burning in the distance at night.If I had offended someone with this email, I'm sorry. That wasn't my intention. I never want to hurt people like the second best attendant, my "partner" and my disabled advocates. I'm thinking like a writer here not a disabled person. I know a lot of people are going to read our blog in the next several weeks. This is an opportunity to educate and inform people. I'm helping CLA not attacking it. Trina will agree. I don't hear that I can't write this. My people understand what I'm doing with this email. Steve www.stevenbsalmon.com.I'll be out of the office until Monday. I have wanted to say that! Basketball calls. Enjoy the article. Ask yourself how much time I put in the article while you are reading it and that's why I deserve the best care. Thank you.
The First Letter:
This letter was passed on to me by a friend of Steve Salmon. I know Steve but not as well as my friend. One of the things that Steve fails to mention is that he is also the star of a video in addition to being one of the most dedicated to writing and hardest working people I have ever met. He has written six books - most of us even if we have a great story and are a good storyteller/writer find it too easy to never really start.
Here is Steve's letter including a preamble to friends. It is followed by a video that tells more of the story!
People,Happy Thanksgiving to you. I couldn't pass this up! I had fun writing it. Maybe one of you can get it to the Governor. I will get there someday. Show this to people. Thank you. SteveBob,Please post. Thank you. Steve
Dear Governor Walker,
Congratulations on your book! That's quite an accomplishment! Several questions that I want to ask you. How long did it take you to write the book? How many hours do you write a day? How many books do you plan to write? Did you write the book or did hire a ghostwriter? Do you have a literary agent? How did you get on TV? What is the secret? Do you have ebooks? Is your book in bookstores? Did you take out a grant to do publicity? Did you self published? It's hard being an author plus being the Governor!
My name is Steven Salmon. I'm the Cerebral palsy author of three published books. Currently, I'm writing my sixth books using Morse code to write since I'm unable to use my hands. I write each day for eight hours a day. I have a literary agent. I beat you on that one! But you don't need a literary agent. You're a publicity magnet attracting the news media everywhere you go. The media ignores me. I have two manuscripts ready to send out publishers, but I don't have money to do publicity. I have to buy my own books to put in local bookstores on consignment. You can buy autographed copies of my books for fifteen dollars at the UW Bookstore in the Wisconsin author secton. It costs me two hundred dollars to have my books convert to ebooks. No disabled organization will help me finance publicity. A grant costs six hundred dollars to apply for a grant. I can't afford that. It makes me feel small and insignificant. You expect disabled people to work. Then you cut Medicaid limiting opportunities for people with disabilities. You should be ashamed of yourself being a parent of a disabled child. Good luck running for Governor and president. An author will be watching trying to remind people of shameful policies. Then you'll have all of the time to write another book. This time write it yourself! Www.stevenbsalmon.com.
Steven Salmon from Cristalyne Bell on Vimeo.
There is also a YouTube version that by now - April 2016 has been viewed > ~23500 times! End of December 1, 2017 -- 30,000+ views.
11/11/11 #Medicaid: Death by a 1K Cuts or 10K or More - Making It Personal
Ltr to Gov. #Walker :Two Author's Different Journey #Medicaid #CerebralPalsy -by MorseCode - Www.stevenbsalmon.com
Ltr to Gov. #Walker :Two Author's Different Journey #Medicaid #CerebralPalsy -by MorseCode - #wwJd #99% vs #elites
Ltrs to Gov. #Walker :Home Care Being Destroyed #Medicaid #CerebralPalsy -by MorseCode - Www.stevenbsalmon.com
#Moral ? WI 1848 Forward: Gov. #Walker ’s budget war >dire consequences for people with #disabilities & #elderly
Ltr to Gov. #Walker (man of character - NOT) - #99% vs #elites #Trump :Two Author's Different #Moral Journey #CerebralPalsy - by Ghost Author or MorseCode? #GreenBay #Kenosha #Racine #LaCrosse #EauClaire #StevensPoint
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