IIRC, Germany has an SSI system which companies paid because there is an affirmative action requirements that you have to employe PWDs or paid the fines.

For the President Bush, well, he got a MBA unlike Gore, who flunked or quit every grad programs he was admitted. And Bush got better grades than the rich John Kerry. And those entitlements programs costs money, mine and your tax dollars at work.

France went rigidly oral right after 1880 Milan, and this is why they’re not the leaders in Deaf education today. Unfortunately the baton has passed onto to United States, because we’re at least moving Deaf education forward with Bi-Bi movement, as well as advocacy work through NAD, etc.

The French Deaf still sign, of course, but their sign language is not allowed in classrooms. According to the book, there is some hope, though. A law was recently passed in France that allows parents of Deaf children to choose to have their children educated with both French Sign Language (LSF) and French, instead of only spoken French.

Of course, the question is: are parents taking advantage of the new law?

And are enough of them doing it to the point where they could take France in the right direction?

GL is definitely right about the proper acronymn for the French Sign Language - LSF, not FSL. You, Jean Boutcher, ought to know better from your fluency in French written language.

Where do you, Jean, obtain info about Sweden and Germany taking away with the similar SSI programs for disabled people?

GWB snickered at many government entitlement programs back to his Yale MBA studies. His MBA professor was horrified about GWB’s lack of intellects and understandings toward less forunate people and their struggling liveihood.

The Iraqi war controvesty kinda cause such distractions for the GWB-Dicky’s domestic policies.

Merkel’s conservative Germany leadership probably was mainly responsible for abolishing the generous social entitlement programs, not GWB. Do you have any proofs about GWB’s influence on Germany and Sweden’s domestic programs?

Why Sweden should listen to GWB’s advice about the social entitlement programs?

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

Sweden isn’t a G8 member, and I don’t think they’ve done away with SSI. If they did, I don’t think you can attribute it to Bush’s influence… he’s hated over there.

Lastly, in your other post (#85996), isn’t FSL actually acronymized as LSF?

Nitpicking aside, excellent article.

Under the Socialist government, most deaf people live in a room studio (microwave, refrigerator,
and bed with only one window in an old apartment
building).Their salaries are incredibly low.

However, things may change soon under a new
conservative Sarkozy (recently elected). Sarkozy
whose brother owns a financial business in NYC is
a close friends of many Republicans in Congress
as well as of the Bush administration. Meaning?
We may see some deaf people being evicted and driven away into remote villages out of both
Paris and its suburbans. I think they may continue
collecting SSI for the time being. Bush also successfully helped Germany and Sweden remove SSI
– according to the 2005 G-8 Summit.