7 Dec 2012 12:11 am
wow. with the secession news and this news....this is really turning out to be a "good news" week. i truly thought real americans were just gonna roll over and die under the fed tyranny. i'm feeling better everyday. Employers that don't provide health insurance have to pay a 2k fine. Individuals who are self-employed are required to self-insure, or pay a fine (which covers their insurance cost). What you call tyranny, the CATO Institute (the right wing think tank that actually CAME UP with this policy idea) calls "individual responsibility." How are the disabled being denied? Because they can't get up the stairs? I thought they were"handi-capable"or some other feel-good terminology. Yet their position, for the ones that shriek, they say they can do everything an able-bodied person can do. Apparently they cannot if they need a law in place that requires special accomodations. If they're "equal" to everybody else, then no government mandated handicap parking. No government mandated wheelchair ramps. No government mandated elevators. No government mandated latrines with the handles and wider stalls. Let the business owner install those of his own accord. Otherwise just admit they are inferior because they insist upon special accomodations and use the force of government to get it. When you hire someone, you ask them on the app if they can do the job "with or without reasonable accomodations." No one is asking for anything unreasonable - indeed, the laws are written so as to OUTLAW anyone requesting something unrerasonable. If you have a fellow with a bad back and he wants to bring his own chair to work, that's reasonable. It does not disrupt the work environment. Personally, I WANT to live in a society where we accomodate our fellows. I get that you don't. We can vote it out. When we're done, you can whine. Oh, wait. We HAVE voted it out, we ARE done, and you ARE whining. Please, continue. If they don't have things like access to buildings or public transportation, then theyARE denied rights that every other person enjoys. Shouldn't a blind voter have access to a braille ballot, so they can cast their vote in private like the rest of us? Since when is the acknowledgementthat we may have to make a few special accommodations for the disabled a partisan issue? It has ALWAYS been. The wannabe Galts are all about snickering at gimps.