A Belated Happy Anniversary

[Jw2]

to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

For people with disabilities, 25 years under the ADA has opened a new world - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-ada-disabilities-act-bristo-perspec-0724-jm-20150723-story.html

[Dan]

The worst thing Bush ever did.  Another unfunded government mandate on business.

[chuck_curtis]

The unspoken assumption is that none of it would be possible without gubermint and that Americans are arseholes.  Americans would have, otherwise, without coercion, just left them to rot.

[Jw2]

gee, what a cynical view of life and the will of the people to legislate fairness.
 
the legislation passed the US Senate 91-8 (all republicons)
 
passed the US House unanimously.
 
and signed in law by George H.W. Bush. 
 
 
http://www.fta.dot.gov/civilrights/12325.html
 
 
 
 
 
 

[chuck_curtis]

That's your cynical view of life and people, JW.   Such an assumption may even be correct, but plundering the will and property of others is not going to teach or foster goodwill and improvement.

[Jw2]

what in the world are you talking about?
 
facts.
 
please.
 
 

[chuck_curtis]

I don't know how further to explain.  It's rather self-evident.

[Jw2]

what?  If you can not state your position succinctly, I can't help you.
 
 
 
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish  justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote  the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our  posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
 
 
 
perfectly explains my all-american constitutionally correct position.

 
and you?
 
 
 
 

[chuck_curtis]

Yes, that is the goal.  The means are what is at issue here.

[Jw2]

OK, what means do you object to and why?
 

[hoosier_daddy]

hard to imagine people actually admitting they do not want handicapped americans to be treated fairly in this country.  how can you dickheaded heathens stand yourselves?

this is why these assholes are such assholes:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

[chuck_curtis]

Collectivism is man's oldest exercise in moral justification for plunder and coercion.  chuck_curtis -- Aesops Retreat