Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
On the one hand, the Americans with Disabilities Act was more than a kind-hearted gesture, it was an acknowledgement that America is rich enough to be able to afford to make its public spaces accessible to everyone, including the handicapped. If the law says you have to make accommodations, then by God you have to make them; and if it takes a lawsuit to force you to comply, then you\u2019re jerk and we don\u2019t feel sorry for you<\/a>. .<\/p>\n
Except when the bureaucrats and building inspectors and disability lawyers get ahold of the kind-hearted gesture and turn it into a nit-picking, mountain-out-of-a-molehill tangle of impossible and conflicting regulations, compliance is not simple. The comments show how clueless the public is about the law. “It only requires that the business make the stuff from the second floor available by catalogue, or the disabled person can be met off site, and old buildings are exempted, grandfathered in.\u201d They may be exempt until some minor change is made, then suddenly the entire place needs a major overhaul. Meet a client offsite? Portable temporary ramps? Not likely. The coffee shop with the temporary ramp will be sued because the wheelchair bound person can’t get inside to tell the store they need the ramp.
\nNow we\u2019ve decided it\u2019s time to rein in the lawsuits and make it tougher for people to force businesses to comply<\/a> with the kind-hearted law.
\nThe whole problem is another example of Liberals at play. It would feel good to do something nice for those sad victims and it doesn\u2019t cost us anything because we\u2019ll make somebody else pay for it, so pass the law to signal everyone how virtuous we are for Doing Good. But when people we know have to start paying real money to comply, well, that\u2019s not so much fun anymore. Blame the nasty lawyer for bringing all the lawsuits. Make him stop forcing us to comply with our feel-good law.
\nIt\u2019s not so much the hypocrisy that annoys me: it\u2019s the notion that virtue is good if it\u2019s free; but if we have to pay for it ourselves, then it\u2019s too much bother.
\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWant to start a fire? \u00a0Ask a flaming committed “progressive” what they think about private charity. \u00a0Hold kindling to their ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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