Christopherson wrote:I hate that the ADA gives "equality" to the disabled at the expense of others. If I want to start a business and find a great location but the bathrooms aren't good enough under the ADA. I then have to pay money out of my damn pocket to fix it. How is that fair? How is that equal?
Here is another personal example in which I witnessed many others suffering for the benefit of one disabled person. I went to a very small rural school, one with a very tight budget. Every year it seems they have to start shaving off 1/4 of positions to stay under their budget. So one day, in the middle of the year, this deaf kid moves into town. This forces the school to hire someone to follow him around and sign every lecture to him at the school'l expense. How can the school afford to do this? They were left with few options which included cutting the music program and having to let all of the librarians go. All because of one deaf kid, every kid in the entire town was put at a disadvantage. How is that fair? Another school in the area had a kid in a wheelchair move to town. The school was forced to put in an elevator because of the ADA. Do you have any idea how much installing an elevator cripples a small school's budget? The next year the kid moved away. How is that fair?
Because everyone should have an unalienable right to education..i'm not saying the ADA's perfect, if the feds want to enforce it, they should provide the funds. But what did you want that wheelchair or deaf kid to do? not go to school?
Also any building built before 1990 does not have to be adapted unless renovations are done, so unless you do some major revamping, you could have your business with inaccessible bathrooms....
benji wrote:I believe you have the same natural rights and freedoms I do. I do not believe you are entitled to extra rights or that your existance grants the state authority to deny others their rights and freedoms.
You want the state to treat you differently, and restrict the rights and freedoms of, and impose duties and require burdens on others for your personal gain. I do not because I am a liberal. I believe in equality under the law that represents recognition of equal natural rights and freedoms. You do not, therefore I believe you are wrong. That is our difference.
As for this...its as i said earlier, if the state didnt mandate it it wouldnt happen unless business owners had family members or someone specific in mind for access to their property/place of business. I do not ask for handicapped spots (although i do understand why some do), i do not ask for special treatment. I ask for not having to travel with a personal assistant to live life, i ask for an ability to do what i want when i want, just like you already have being the blessed lucky person you are. I fully believe the Feds should shell out the dough to pay for it if they mandate it, but i do not believe its a restriction of freedom to mandate allowing everyone an opportunity to be a patron.