[Nfbmo] Fw: [Missouri-l] Fw: [leadership] Good Intentions GoneBad

DanFlasar at aol.com DanFlasar at aol.com
Thu Sep 2 07:07:03 UTC 2010


There were a few typos in your post so I'm not sure what you  meant 
exactly, but I agree that it's a good
thing to know what legislation really can and can't do. Stossel's 'report'  
is nothing more than an attempt to bolster his
reputation among those who think of themselves as right-wing but  
essentially clueless.  
     I never thought I'd say it but I really miss  William F. Buckley.
Dan
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/1/2010 11:46:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
dewey.bradley at att.net writes:

He does have  one point though.
Americans are sou happy, but this law is needed, I just  wish people would 
read it before they try and think they are following  it

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GoneBad


> John Stossel is,  always has been, and always will be, an idiot.
>
>
>
>  In a message dated 9/1/2010 10:30:51 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>  goodfolks at charter.net writes:
>
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> -----  Original  Message ----- 
> From: "Chip Hailey"   <chip at gatewayfortheblind.com>
> To: "MCB Listserve"   <missouri-l at moblind.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010  9:02  AM
> Subject: [Missouri-l] Fw: [leadership] Good Intentions  Gone  Bad
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>>
>> ----- Original Message  ----- 
>> From: "peter  altschul"  <paltschul at centurytel.net>
>> To: "Acblead"   <leadership at acb.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010  8:31  AM
>> Subject: [leadership] Good Intentions Gone   Bad
>>
>>
>>> Good Intentions Gone  Bad
>>>   John Stossel
>>>  You own a  business, maybe a restaurant.   You've got a lot to  worry
>>> about.  You have to make sure the  food is  safe and tastes good, that
> the
>>> place is clean  and  appealing, that workers are friendly and paid
>>>  according to a  hundred Labor Department and IRS  rules.
>>>  On top of that,  there are rules you might  have no idea about.  The
>>> bathroom  sinks must be a  specified height.  So must the doorknobs and
>>>   mirrors.  You must have rails.  And if these things aren't right  --
> say,
>>> if your mirror is just one inch too high --  
>>> you  could be sued for thousands of dollars.  And  be careful.  If you
> fail
>>> to let a customer bring  a large snake, which he calls his  "service
>>> animal," into  your restaurant, you could be in  trouble.  All of this  
is
>>> because of the well-intentioned  Americans With  Disabilities Act, which
>>> President George  H.W.  Bush  signed 20 years ago.
>>>  The ADA was popular  with  Republicans and Democrats.  It passed both
>>> houses  of  Congress with overwhelming majorities, 377 to 28 in the  
House
>>> and  91 to 6 in the Senate.
>>>   What does it do? The ADA prohibits  discrimination against people  
with
>>> disabilities, requiring  businesses to provide the  disabled "equal
> access"
>>> and to make  "reasonable  accommodation" for employees.  Tax credits and
>>>   deductions are available for special equipment (talking computers,  
for
>>> instance) and modifying buildings to comply with the   accessibility
>>> mandate.
>>>  The ADA was  supposed to  help more disabled people find jobs.  But  
did
>>> it? Strangely,  no.  An MIT study found that  employment of disabled men
>>> ages  21 to 58 declined after  the ADA went into effect.  Same for women
>>> ages 21 to  39.
>>>  How could employment among the  disabled have  declined? Because the 
law
>>> turns "protected" people  into  potential lawsuits.  Most ADA litigation
>>> occurs when  an  employee is fired, so the safest way to avoid those
>  costs
>>> is not  to hire the disabled in the first  place.
>>>  Walter Olson, a  senior fellow at the Cato  Institute and author of the
>>>  Overlawyeredddcom blog, says  that the law was unnecessary.  Many "hire
>>> the  handicapped" programs existed before the ADA passed.   Sadly,  now
> most
>>> have been quietly discontinued, probably  because  of the threat of 
legal
>>> consequences if an  employee doesn't work  out.
>>>  Under the ADA, Olson  notes, fairness does not mean  treating disabled
>>> people  the same as non-disabled people.   Rather it means  
accommodating
>>> them.  In other words, the law   requires that people be treated
> unequally.
>>>  The  law has also  unleashed a landslide of lawsuits by  "professional
>>> litigants" who  file a hundred suits at a  time.  Disabled people visit
>>>  businesses to look for  violations, but instead of simply asking that a
>>> violation be  corrected, they partner with lawyers who (legally)   
extort
>>> settlement money from the  businesses.
>>>   Some disabled people have benefited  from changes effected by the ADA,
>>> but the costs are rarely  accounted for.  If a small business  has to 
lay
>>> off  an employee to afford the added expense of  accommodating  the
>>> disabled, is that a good thing -- especially  if,  say, customers in
>>> wheelchairs are rare? Extra-wide  bathroom  stalls that reduce the
> overall
>>> number  of toilets are only some of  the unaccounted-for costs of the
>  ADA.
>>> And since ADA modification  requirements are  triggered by renovation,
> the
>>> law could actually   discourage businesses from making needed 
renovations
>>> as a way  of  avoiding the expense.
>>>  A few disabled people  speak up against  the law.  Greg Perry, author 
of
>>>  "Disabling America: The  Unintended Consequences of the  Government's
>>> Protection of the  Handicapped," says that  because the disabled now
>>> represent an  added expense to  businesses, many resent them.
>>>  Finally, the  ADA has  led to some truly bizarre results.  Exxon gave
>  ship
>>>  captain Joseph Hazelwood a job after he completed  alcohol rehab.
>>>  Hazelwood then drank too much and let the  Exxon Valdez run aground in
>>> Alaska.  Exxon was sued for  allowing it to happen.  So  Exxon 
prohibited
>>>  employees who have had a drug or drinking  problem from  holding
>>> safety-sensitive jobs.  The result? You   guessed it -- employees with a
>>> history of alcohol abuse  sued  under the ADA, demanding their "right" 
to
>>> those  jobs.  The  federal government (Equal Employment  Opportunity
>>> Commission)  supported the employees.   Courts are still trying to sort
> it
>>>   out.
>>>  More money for the parasites.
>>>   John  Stossel is an award-winning news correspondent and author  of
> Myths,
>>> Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the  Shovel--Why Everything  You
>>> Know is  Wrong.
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