Posted on 07/26/2024 9:06:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On this day in history, July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), one of the most sweeping affirmation of rights for the disabled in American history, according to History.com.
President Bush signed the act into law on the South Lawn of the White House South Lawn in front of an audience of 3,000 people, according to the White House's website.
"On that day, America became the first country to adopt a comprehensive civil rights declaration for people with disabilities," the same source cited.
The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits any type of discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation and all public and private places that are open to the general public, notes the ADA National Network.
"The purpose of the law is to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else," the same source said.
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This was what the “conservative” party did for 20 years under Bush I and Bush II. Liberal domestic policies combined with foreign wars. It didn’t work.
The great John Stossel did an analysis on this some years ago.
It is a lawyer’s dream and have killed innovation and jobs.
The Small Business Shakedown Act more like it.
Awful president.
What we got was something quite different, as usual.
100%
Of course and by design.
Another gift to the trial lawyers.
Stay out the Bushes.
Two young black guys opened a little restaurant near me. They picked a good location as there was no other restaurant nearby. Is it important to note they were black? I think so, because too many blacks are mired in poverty. Small business ownership will help pull them out.
I stopped in for lunch, and was surprised to see that there were no chairs. Tables, but no chairs. I asked one of the owners about that. He said it was an ADA rule. Old restaurants were grandfathered in. But new ones had to have a very expensive handicapped-accessible rest room. No such rest room meant no chairs allowed.
Crazy. That restaurant is closed now, out of business. After all, not too many folks will want to eat an entire meal standing up.
George W. Bush was trash. His ADA is just another example of it.
We are doing the same for the Trans and gay community.
Or even other minorities.
Correction to my last line in post #11:
The Bushes were trash. The ADA is just another example of it.
The perspective from the passage of time has led me to hate the Bush Crime Family with a passion. They pushed every crazy, wasteful idea the Democrats ever had. That is why the base abandoned GH. Hey in 92. The whole family pushed for the death of American sovereignty and we are feeling the effects today. Remember the North American Union push where they planned on Canada, the U.S. and Mexico forming one country under a EU type government? Every one of the Bushes and all of their followers are scum.
Bush was the peak of “progressivism.”
collectivist, big-government ideology, funded by the US dollar and America’s dominance. It cut across both Democrat and Republican. Bush was fundamentally no different from FDR
The rest of our lives will be spent dealing with the fallout from the decline of “progressivism”
Further proof that “Compassionate Conservatism” was neither.
I am assuming that this bill was the one that mandated wheel chair access to public buildings. I have seen that used many times since inception and construction. Nothing wrong with that part.
Ok so then why did we support them in 2000 and 2004? I am also at fault, but asking for your perspective.
In the insurance industry 45 years, there were a lot of mom and pop ops that went out of business due to lack of access for wheelchairs, there was an entire industry based on that act.
Herbert.
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