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All of us finally came around

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to realize that these people

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did not have to spend their

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lives in squalid conditions,

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sitting on some floor someplace

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rocking back and forth

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with hardly any attendants around.

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They don't have to live like that way.

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These very people can, in fact,

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be productive members of society.

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And it's an amazing thing.

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I have written about a couple of them.

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I dug these clips out of my pile.

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And they actually... the very kinds of

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individuals who before that

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were just sloughed off into

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warehouses are now out working,

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sheltered workshops perhaps,

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but they're doing something.

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They're living in group homes

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with a certain amount of

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independence and a certain

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amount of supervision as well,

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whatever is needed.

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And there are a number of different

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programs going now that I can't...

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I can't specify for you, but it's all

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in the direction of more

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and more independence.

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And these people are proving

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they can do it.

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Even those with an IQ of...there was one

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person I wrote about in 1987.

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His recorded IQ range was 20 to 40,

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and yet he performed janitorial work.

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I have forgotten the place

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where he does it. And what I said at

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that time was, yet he works,

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he performs useful labor for which

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society is willing to pay.

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He contributes to the

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gross national product.

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Well, that idea was just unheard of

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if you go back to the '60s and '50s.