Unbelievable......
If they need that gizmo, they aren’t safe in the pool to begin with.
You would think the whole damn nation was disabled.
Oh well, we get what we vote for.
Disabled people have gone from being sympathetic figures to crass shakedown artists.
Their agenda isn’t “equality” — it is revenge on the abled.
I 100% guarantee you that the last place I worked we were told the DAY AFTER the ADA passed that we were under NO circumstances to hire any disabled b/c they would be impossible to fire.
If there is a market for “accessible” pools, then hotels would be able to charge a premium for them, which would encourage more hotels to make their pools accessible.
It’s really wonderful how the free market works when it is allowed.
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I bet the hotels will decide to close the pools—and they may never reopen them. Pools are expensive to maintain and costly from an insurance standpoint.
Now if you start putting in lifts so disabled people can use them, the liability insurance costs could go through the roof once underwriters start reviewing the issue.
Goodbye resort hotels. Goodbye Mom and Pop Motel 6s.
OK, how many congressmen/senators have quietly bought up pool lift franchise rights, to profit from this abomination?
Some of the ADA rules may seem "over the top" to some people with the accommodations for handicapped folks (and I'll admit, like any gov't bureaucracy they tend to get bogged down in minutia.) But it's usually "over the top" for those folks who have won the health lottery, so to speak, and still have their mobility. Lose your ability to get around without a wheelchair, and then talk to me about the inconvenience of curb cut construction...I guarantee you you'll be for them, not against them.
Hill says hotels can comply by doing what they can afford to do, even if it's installing a portable lift that's stored when not in use. If a hotel lacks the money to buy one, she says, it can create a plan that shows when it expects to get one.
When the ADA act passed years ago I wrote in this forum that it opened up a cornucopia of perpetual legal suits for the law industry. It was written by lawyers for lawyers.
Now it seems that I was exactly on point.
With the government the camel’s nose does not have to even slip under the tent, he just charges right in.
Don’t forget to thank GHW Bush for all this.
And while you’re at it, give a kind thought to Richard Nixon for the EPA and high gas prices.
Pools will start closing the first time someone drowns; you can’t have a lifeguard at a hotel pool 24/7. Well, you could, but the free market tends not to do so.
Obama doesn't want people to use more than their ration's share of water. (His gauge.)
And Obama views swimming more as a white-man's sport and pastime--as blacks are less-likely to swim, and given which--look to the bizarre measures he took to hobble the tanning bed industry.
He wants to cripple communal and private commercial pools first, then he'll move on to private personal pools...for all the same reasons--as well as that--homeowners shouldn't have that much extra personal property, or self-sufficing water on hand, as is. (Especially so.)