Posted on 08/24/2010 12:51:41 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
From Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I think it bears review for those of you who have not read it. Ayn Rand also had a thing or two to say about limiting the rest of society to make things "fair" for the tiny minority of handicapped persons. Crippling the rest of us so we have no "unfair advantages" is simply wrong.
Full text here: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
I remember vividly how much my textbooks cost nearly 25 years ago. I can only imagine how much they cost now. It was big business back then and the campus police actually got involved in an investigation of students who formed a co-op to sell their textbooks directly to other students. They made plenty of money and the buyers got textbooks for less. Win-win. The administration actually said that it was unfair to the other students and threatened to expel them. The campus bookstore was such a racket.
I also remember having to scrimp and save, working whatever hours I could, just to get by while in college. Nor was I the only one doing so. It seemed like the dorms were always full, regardless of when I registered (full of minority students). Meanwhile, the minority students were getting all their meals free, their housing free, their books free, preferential treatment in every way.
How was that "fair?"
Are not Braille editions of textbooks required to be available under the ADA?
Bump
Close but not quite on the mark. The DOJ, and this Chicom loving little schm-k Perez, who has divided loyalties (between Castro and Chavez) wouldn’t have gotten involved except a Taiwan manufacturer picked up ownership of E-Ink. See: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/06/01/taiwanese-display-maker-buys-cambridges-e-ink-for-215-million/
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