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My library (opened last year) is built for the handicapped.

It's my understanding that damages, pain and suffering, are Not Taxable which explains the core motivation of much "activism." 

Also keeps lawyers fat and happy because it's easier to throw money than fight it through.

Any good reading material in there?

Jack

I go to the liberry to get on the internet.

Go to any where outside of the U.S. and the "handicap" are on their own. Wonder how they manage to exist on their own?

I have a "handicap" sticker, and I use the same thought I had when I was 20 - if I can't get in, then I go some where else.

I tips my hat to you.  I've sometimes thought that approach would be the one I'd take if I'd been afflicted  in that way.  I think (hope) I'd figure if those people wanted my business they'd make their businesses accessible.  A lot would, and those who didn't just wouldn't get the money I had to spend.

Best to you,

Jack

Chewie i have a pasport but have never been out of the country to know how much of your statement is correct or not. I'm not an activist but i have noted the many places within walking distance riding distance from my house that i couldn't get into because there was no way i could get in. I didn't panic and call the handi police i found another way also.

An example of non compliance is the last place i worked didn't have any handicapped assess abilities to or from or inside the building. In fact they didn't even have a handi parking place. They knew i was facing an operation where i might be forced to use a wheel chair for a while. Rather than build a simple ramp on one of the many exterior entrance doors they chose to find a way to terminate my employment. Now anybody else might have called the EEOC or an attorney and filed several laws suits. I didn't do that crazy maybe but i was just one case of this happening i know there are probably several thousand places that on a daily basis let people go because they don't want to comply with state, federal, rules and laws.

When are handicapped people just going to learn that they're not welcome anymore....

If God wanted them around he wouldn't have handicapped them, right?

Nice bumper-sticker rhetoric.  Precisely the sort of inflamatory, simplistic, guilt-driven, sarcastic thinking that leads us further into the morass.  Bumper stickers try to pass themselves off as glib, clever, but they boil down to an excuse for people not thinking past the ends of their noses.

It's not many years since guys with their legs blown off defending this country in time of war were pushing themselves around the streets of every city of this nation, selling pencils, getting by any way they could.  The ones who got their conditions in other ways didn't have any safety net, and they were selling pencils, too.

I believe this society did right by taking measures to help those people, which it did.

It's all a matter of degree. 

But, I'd also mention in passing, that most of those people pushing themselves around on platforms with castors responded with anger when anyone tried to open doors for them.  Tried to give them a dollar bill instead of a nickle for a pencil.  They weren't beggars, weren't looking for sympathy, weren't looking for anyone to do anything special for them.

The concept of pride in personal responsibility, in a man goring his own oxen, wasn't yet an anathema.

Jack

That's an ignorant statement.  God help you if you become handicapped. 

what an ignorant statement.  do you think they prefer being handicapped?

are you positive you'll never become handicapped.??

Evidently I read the post incorrectly.  I saw it as sarcasm, whereas it was more transparent as pure ignorance by you and Todd. 

Sorry.

Jack 

With a statement such as that, one can only assume you are either very young or have been blessed with a family that have never had handicap related issues.

Sad part is, I can probably recall a time my mentality was perhaps no more mature then what you are displaying with that comment. Believe me, until you spent time wheeling a family member around in a wheel chair, literally picking up a person who weighed more then twice myself from a wheel chair and putting them into the back seat of a SUV. And perhaps more so, wiping away the tears of a dear family member who cried each time because they could no longer do for themselves. This you do not for obligation of family, but for true sincerety of those you love. Maybe, just maybe, like myself, you will one day open your eyes to the world around you and realize that perhaps the person who is truly handicap...is none other then yourself.

Sir Metro