Posted on 07/27/2023 7:47:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On this day in history, July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), one of the most sweeping affirmation of rights for the disabled in American history, according to History.com.
President Bush signed the act into law on the South Lawn of the White House South Lawn in front of an audience of 3,000 people, according to the White House's website.
"On that day, America became the first country to adopt a comprehensive civil rights declaration for people with disabilities," the same source cited.
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ADA turned out to be a curse on businesses and a boon for lawyers who used the law to extort business owners.
It also led to slippery yellow plastic on street corners that trip and kill the elderly.
The ADA I have no doubt was conceived with the best intentions, but since it is so broad, it is is one of the most misused,and INTENTIONALLY misused pieces of legislation.
I was working at a huge company in ‘92, an American subsidiarity of Schlumberger. We had several disabled employees. They were all in the first round of layoffs. The liability of having “special” people is too high.
not everybody can do everything. That’s life.
Now we have parking lots half empty with reserved spaces.
I have come to despise the ADA. It is textbook government meddling, with all the pitfall.
A friend of mine was forced to add a wheelchair ramp to his martial arts studio.
The nearby Lowes has row upon row of strictly ADA spaces, followed by rows of online order pickup spaces, followed by rows of American veteran spaces.
Who needs a membership to a gym -- just shop at Lowes.
Should have been called the “Disable American Business Act”
The ADA was made law with the best of intentions—I helped draft a small portion of the law and was on hand when it was signed. However, like any law regarding the ‘real’ disabled the politicians smelled votes from the gray panthers and anyone else that made a complaint was magically covered. Now the ADA is so muddy and riddled with fraud that in my very experienced eyes it is almost worthless. I have said this in many forms and many places—there are no people on Earth more abused than the ‘real’ disabled, and everyone knows it but no one will make an effort to reign it in.
The ADA allowed for millions of disabled Americans to enter the workforce, a big positive. Was it a ‘net’ positive? I’m thinking every street corner spending over a thousand bucks re-cementing the curbs for a minuscule number of wheelchairs. It would have been inviting to import immigrant geniuses to pull our economic cart.
Then there are the lawsuits that came with it. An old 4 story building without an elevator? Move the business.
Yes, I know the Lowes nonsense. Not sure what the requirement is for the specified number of spaces (business capacity limit?) but Lowes must have at least 50 spaces designated handicap. (Can you even use that term anymore, or is it too politically incorrect?)
Before the ADA it was assumed he was there because he had good software skills like the rest of us. After the ADA he felt like he had to prove himself.
What may have been a good idea, has turned into another gimme program leaching off the taxpayers.
Probably me...On the other side of the coin, the first two years I worked for one of the largest corps in the world, I had no bathroom my wheelchair would fit in and had to cross a busy street anytime I had to go. I stuck it out for forty years and saw the average person and or co-workers have a reverse in attitudes—all caused by a federal law that was later allowed to go to the political dogs.
If your ADA signs were a few inches out of the prescribed locations and heights, they filed a lawsuit against you and demanded $5,000-10,000 as a settlement to drop the suit. It cost you $10,000 to respond to the suit and if you failed to respond you lost by default and were hit with a default judgment.
Another trick they did go into a company that was not open to the public and ask to use the bathroom. If you were nice enough to accommodate them they would photograph your bathroom and manufacture ADA violations to file a lawsuit. Then use this as a pretext to demand a formal ADA investigation of your entire facility
They filed hundreds of these suits over the space of 6 months.
They were eventually dismissed as vexatious litigants filing frivolous lawsuits and sanctioned via class action lawsuit but it cost a lot of people a lot of money to fight
We have spaces at our local Wal-Mart (Houston) labeled "Parents With Children". I keep telling my wife that we should be able to park there. I mean, we have children.
Of course, they're 50 and 55, but they're our children!
i think you can say handicapped but don’t say crippled.
Statement obviously correct but who didnt know this when bill proposed
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