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Disabled access rule may close some hotel pools
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| March 13, 2012
Posted on 03/14/2012 3:40:44 PM PDT by grundle
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posted on
03/14/2012 3:40:48 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
Unbelievable......
If they need that gizmo, they aren’t safe in the pool to begin with.
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posted on
03/14/2012 3:43:07 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: grundle
You would think the whole damn nation was disabled.
Oh well, we get what we vote for.
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posted on
03/14/2012 3:49:56 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: grundle
Disabled people have gone from being sympathetic figures to crass shakedown artists.
Their agenda isn’t “equality” — it is revenge on the abled.
I 100% guarantee you that the last place I worked we were told the DAY AFTER the ADA passed that we were under NO circumstances to hire any disabled b/c they would be impossible to fire.
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posted on
03/14/2012 3:50:12 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
To: freedumb2003
I 100% guarantee you that the last place I worked we were told the DAY AFTER the ADA passed that we were under NO circumstances to hire any disabled b/c they would be impossible to fire.
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A company would be better off hiring a moslem in full garb than a person in a wheelchair.
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posted on
03/14/2012 3:53:50 PM PDT
by
Realman30
("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
To: grundle
If there is a market for “accessible” pools, then hotels would be able to charge a premium for them, which would encourage more hotels to make their pools accessible.
It’s really wonderful how the free market works when it is allowed.
To: grundle
Art galleries need to accommodate the blind, and orchestras the deaf. Hollywood already accommodates the dumb.
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posted on
03/14/2012 3:56:12 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
To: grundle
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:00:00 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Will the families of the disabled sue when they drown because they don’t know how to swim?
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:05:56 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: grundle
I bet the hotels will decide to close the pools—and they may never reopen them. Pools are expensive to maintain and costly from an insurance standpoint.
Now if you start putting in lifts so disabled people can use them, the liability insurance costs could go through the roof once underwriters start reviewing the issue.
Goodbye resort hotels. Goodbye Mom and Pop Motel 6s.
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:23:32 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
They would have to hire someone to operate the lift. This should be voluntary for the hotels to be wheelchair friendly. Butt out government!
To: Born to Conserve
The market only works that way if demand is high enough to justify charging a premium. The whole point of the ADA law is to force businesses to offer amenities that aren’t in demand enough to justify the expenditure. It’s the antithesis of how a free market works.
To: grundle
Where's Bob?
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:25:35 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: wildbill
I'll bet most of them close the pool and fill it up with dirt. When traveling in Florida, I noticed it was common for families who lived in the area of the hotel where I was staying for business to rent a room for the weekend to give the "kids" an opportunity to use the pool. In retrospect, it is smarter than owning a pool at home. I've done that. Did all the work to put the damn thing into my dad's yard, then was advised by the doctor to stay out of the water due to sinus problems.
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:30:28 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: goseminoles
And what would happen if that employee lifting that disabled individual either had them fall out of the lift on to the concrete or fall in to the pool and drown?
If they want to swim that badly let them do themselves or a family member do it instead.
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:36:47 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: wildbill
I hope the hotel owners with the closed pools put up signs mentioning how the federal legislators, judges, and trial lawyers, and disabled shakedown artists worked together to shut down the pools.
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:40:59 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Exactly my point. But I guess an existing swim at own risk sign would suffice.
To: goseminoles
I’d past those signs all over those lifts!
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posted on
03/14/2012 4:52:34 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Boogieman
In my city, they busted up 65 year old inlaid mosaic on street curbs to put in handicap ramps on every sidewalk at every intersection. Except the sidewalks are absolute broken crap and they flood so they get little use of any kind, especially if it has rained that week.
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posted on
03/14/2012 5:04:47 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
To: grundle
OK, how many congressmen/senators have quietly bought up pool lift franchise rights, to profit from this abomination?
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posted on
03/14/2012 5:06:10 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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