This goes back to a previous topic on the Self Advocacy groups. People shouldn’t be writing stories or opinions as their first draft done on MS Word and saving the file for the first time as if it was their final copy. Or writing Too Many Capitals in an 18th Century English in a 21 Century world where you can make boldfaced statements.  That kind of writing appears one has a cluttered mind and shows an alleged un intelligence.
This kind of methaphor can be considered as writing emotionally, or emotional politics. This is toxic from a political perspective. If I was one’s political advisor, I strongly suggest not writing publicly when you are emotional. This comes from my mother preaching this as well.
I also suggest you do research on any issue. Go to your town’s or school districts website. Go to your state’s website. Click on the Information Technology’s webpage. Go to any agency other than what you typically would need, to distract yourself. That kind of distraction may open your mind to understanding of how a government may work. You may get to understand how a generic government works. Generic governmental agencies are often different than a human services agency or a school district, because there are less emotions involved. And since we have the World Wide Web and the Internet, the power has never been under our fingertips than ever before.
The lack of generic government causes lots of misunderstandings of the system. (This also goes back to the issue of self interest groups.) The narcissism of politics is also making it toxic as well.
Case in point, lets use an example in the publication  by The New Hampshire Challenge, a highly emotional publication for special needs interests. (To prevent any legal challenges, I will attempt to abbreviate the column as per to the Fair Use doctrine for the purposes of constructive criticism)

It appears the majority of our Free State Libertarians and Tea Party Conservative legislators now in control of the NH House,  now view developmental disabilities as a disease rather than a part of the human condition.  These Libertarians and tea party conservatives successfully gained control of the House in the last election, and are under the authoritarian control of NH House Speaker William O’Brien. 

I cannot disagree with the beliefs of what those “Libertarians” …especially coming from a person that suffers in society and questions the autism “disorder”or “disease”  himself.

True Republicans in the state of New Hampshire, have always embraced the concept of “Local Control”.  Republicans to date have fought the good fight, to resist any move of centralization of medical decision making, and tax revenue expenditure. 

Again, “local control” is basically the New Jersey law of allowing every municipality to do almost whatever they want on taxes, and almost anarchy of how to move money around in the local school districts or towns. “Local control” from my understanding has nothing to do with area agencies. Again, self interests = selfishness = lack of understanding how a larger system works. We are talking about the state level mind you – not D.C. (I don’t like “Local control” and I do not like the Jersey way of doing things. Leave Snooki’s world down there please!)

Recently, New Hampshire Commissioner for the Department of Health and Human Services Nicolas Toumpas received his orders from the legislature to design, develop and implement a care management plan for New Hampshire citizens under the auspices of Medicaid.  This will not only lead to a loss of local control, it will also dismantle a human service system that has proven to be a model of cost effectiveness and inclusion across the country.
What is shocking about this legislative imposed mandate is the possibility that an out-of-state for-profit organization will be hired to manage New Hampshire’s developmental disabilities service delivery system.  The system has been efficiently managed at the local level by area agencies for decades and has been considered the model to emulate.  Boards of directors composed of citizen volunteers oversee these agencies.
It is feared people with disabilities or their parents may need to deal with a company based in Chicago or another far flung location, to obtain residential services in Manchester.  To date, people in the community have gone to their local Area Agencies, where cost effective solutions were mutually agreed upon at the local level.  New Hampshire’s cost effectiveness and ability to be flexible has as its bedrock local people who know New Hampshire’s communities best.

Again, more spin of taking advantage of a totally different law, and trashing any hope of saving money and potentially reusing it for the funding of a growing number of legitimate people suffering with various disabilities. The Waitlist would go back to what the law dictates a minimum of 90 days.
However instead of acting like mature people, the people have to resort to political gridlock namecall politicians regardless of the party affiliation, and instead of being proactive, we have to be reactive to everything.
I am not saying we shouldn’t be emotional, but in the other hand we have to be realistic and understand the economic issues. In every industry in society, in order to stay relevant, they need to cut costs. Why dont the government use the same practice?
And how come these narrow-minded people can get away writing things they have no damn clue about? If you want to understand how government works, don’t learn on one system and one agency and one cause. You have to understand a general idea how the government works before people start attacking libertarians and accusing them for violating the “local control” logic when it doesnt apply to area agencies!
It’s a double standard in the special needs world of who can say and what they can speak. And unfortunately, there are lots of people spreading such mis (and uninformed) information. And when you rely on just a few stories in a sensational “alternative media” publication that has bias just as bad as the MSM, you have to read it openly and not guarantee someone whose writing it is accurate.
And you wonder why “republicans” want to defund special needs programs? It’s what you read, in these publications, lack of understanding of state and local government (SL&G) and just plain slander to certain groups and parties. I can see why they think that. And its a shame to the population. The special needs groups are doing this to themselves and at some point they need to understand their wrongdoings.