ADA turned out to be a curse on businesses and a boon for lawyers who used the law to extort business owners.
It also led to slippery yellow plastic on street corners that trip and kill the elderly.
The ADA I have no doubt was conceived with the best intentions, but since it is so broad, it is is one of the most misused,and INTENTIONALLY misused pieces of legislation.
I was working at a huge company in ‘92, an American subsidiarity of Schlumberger. We had several disabled employees. They were all in the first round of layoffs. The liability of having “special” people is too high.
not everybody can do everything. That’s life.
Now we have parking lots half empty with reserved spaces.
I have come to despise the ADA. It is textbook government meddling, with all the pitfall.
A friend of mine was forced to add a wheelchair ramp to his martial arts studio.
Should have been called the “Disable American Business Act”
The ADA was made law with the best of intentions—I helped draft a small portion of the law and was on hand when it was signed. However, like any law regarding the ‘real’ disabled the politicians smelled votes from the gray panthers and anyone else that made a complaint was magically covered. Now the ADA is so muddy and riddled with fraud that in my very experienced eyes it is almost worthless. I have said this in many forms and many places—there are no people on Earth more abused than the ‘real’ disabled, and everyone knows it but no one will make an effort to reign it in.
Before the ADA it was assumed he was there because he had good software skills like the rest of us. After the ADA he felt like he had to prove himself.
What may have been a good idea, has turned into another gimme program leaching off the taxpayers.
I have three pins in my right knee and three pins in my right hip. I’ve never once used the ADA
Bush was just another repooblican president who was indistinguishable from the left in so many ways.
Nixon who brought us OSHA and EPA and took us off the gold standard and opened the door for profit hospitals at the urging of his buddy Kiaser.
then Bush who did this and indirectly opened the doors to asylums that kept crazy, helpless and dangerous people where they belonged.
How many more can you name?
Fed.gov has no right whatsoever to force local businesses to re-design parking lots, stairways and bathrooms, but they did.
Lawyers now use this law to turn off websites they don’t like - because no “disabled access.”
Another reason to hate the Bushes, their offspring and neocons in general.
The bane of janitors. I’m 6’ 2” and I can’t count the number of times I’ve hit the top of a low boy urinal because they sit so darn low. And I’ve never seen a cripple actually use one.
And now we have a mentally retarded President