Why is it that people are so quick to want to strip away the rights granted by the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Why is it if
one thing goes wrong – say one law firm of ambulance chasers slightly abuses
the ADA’s intent in a lawsuit…
Or one
construction project screws up its wheelchair access…
…and otherwise
fairly smart, rational and compassionate people want to dump the ADA?
How is it
that every other thing on the planet has flaws and unintended consequences, but
people can accept those imperfections?
If we
treated flight like the ADA, the first time an airline plane crashed, we’d ban
all flight forever.
The first
time a person committed fraud, we close all the banks and stuff our money under
the mattress.
Medicine
would still be in the dark ages, because the first surgery, antibiotic, etc. that
didn’t work perfectly, we’d shut all exploration into those fields for eternity
– because, gasp, a percentage of people die in surgery or have bad reactions to
pharmaceuticals.
Why is it that
everyone reading this agrees it is nonsense to stop a good thing because it has
a few warts, or because it doesn’t work perfectly 100% of the time?
But
otherwise right-headed politicians, leaders and everyday people read about one
case of possible ADA abuse, one case of a cheap skate business owner (falsely)
claiming they went broke modifying their building.
And everyone
is ready to strip away the only civil rights legislation, weak and watered down
as it is, ever enacted to help 50+ million people with disabilities.
WTF.
It makes no
sense.
Please share this with a dozen people, so we can pull our heads out of our collective asses when it comes to being so prejudiced against the ADA.
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