[Kaslin]

Victor Davis Hanson Column

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[COBOL2Java]

In the eternal search for perfect justice and equality, what starts out as liberal can quickly end up as progressively absurd. The logic of equality of result, rather than equality of opportunity, demands that there is always one more group, one more grievance, one more complaint against the shrinking and overwhelmed majority.

This

[nickedknack]

The Rapid ‘Regress’ of Regressivism

Fixed the title.

[arthurus]

If fliers request wheelchair assistance they get to board first. It doesn’t let them deplane any sooner. though, so they don’t need it to get off.

[Tonytitan]

I was homeless and living in a mission once. The wheelchairs, walkers and crutches that individuals so desperately clung to because it got them to the front of the meal line ended up in a pile by the wall once these folks got their monthly dose of gubmint money. Money cures! Who knew?

[originalbuckeye]

Just an FYI. I need two knee replacements. I do not have a handicap placard. I can walk, but I do use wheelchairs in airports. When my plane comes in at a gate that it a 15 minute walk for healthy people, I cannot walk the distance to the next plane. I am very slow and use a cane. I do get off the plane with everybody else, but I do slow them down. My husband does try to get seats as close to the front of the plane as possible. And he always drops me off at the front of any store where we shop. I do use the electric carts at the store, if available. If not, I put my cane in the shopping cart and lean heavily on the cart as I slowly make my way around the store. I do not shop for long, but I do need to go to the grocery store every week. Yes, I have put off the replacement surgery for too long. But I am frightened as my mom suffered with a staph infection that the Dr took into her knee, when he put in the replacement. This is not uncommon, but they had to take her knee replacement out and she walked with a brace and walker for the last ten years of her life. I just wanted you all to hear from someone who is using the wheelchairs at the airports. In the end, yes I can walk. But it is very painful and I am very slow. Please be kind.

[JimRed]

Such growing efforts to ensure that the physically challenged can easily fly are certainly welcome.

At least half of the physical challenges are self-inflicted, when individuals are too damned fat to walk aboard.

[Pietro]

People at airports use wheelchairs to cut in line at TSA checkpoints.