which cared for Down' syndrome kids, as well as Rosemarie Kennedy.

Because of the "school" Jefferson was enriched with people suffering from the trisomy. Jefferson is known as the "gemutlichkiet city", I think largely because Down's syndrome folks are so indomitably happy.

The range of capacity, from depressingly low to enchantingly high, is something that requires experience to appreciate.

After years out there in small town WI...conservative, unaccepting, blah blah, I can honestly say, living in a community where it's not uncommon to encounter retail clerks with the trisomy, these people ought not be discounted on the basis of the trisomy. Given a chance many of them WILL surprise you and make you wonder what 'normal' means.

I once worked with a woman with Down's. We recruited her away from McDonald's. She had been there for years, but always in the back. They never let her interact with customers. This in an industry where, if you stay for six months and don't have a disability, they make you assistant manager! :wtyf:

the manager of one of the town's few liquor stores.

IF (!!) you are willing to get behind the upfront problems at the interface with these victims of genetics, you'll find out that they include truly wonderful people.

They really -ARE- people: their lives really MUST matter.

but not some of the rhetoric like"victims of genetics".

But I doubt that most people with Down's would describe themselves as "victims".

The UKIP candidate must know Lord Freud, the Welfare Minister heard talking about lowering mentally challenged peoples' wages last year, then had to resign.

That idea takes some elitism and hate, too.