What would you say to a person that comes to your establishment in a wheelchair, and cannot enter because there is no lift for them?
Quoting: RantProne I am the a/c that said the Friedman thing.
I would honestly get another person (employee, more than likely) and we would pick them up and make it work. I think it would become a service that would get me a lot of other new business.
Amazing how Biblical principles and free markets actually make everything better for everyone.
What if that person files a complaint and you find yourself facing a fine if you don't make the necessary alterations?
Quoting: RantProne What if the cost of re-fitting my place of business is cost-prohibitive (e.g. my family can't pay our mortgage or there will be no cash to pay utilities for 2 months at the business, directly causing us to go bankrupt)?
That is the real life problem. It unnecessarily only hurts the business (the handicapped person whom was probably not actually offended will get over it and can shop somewhere else but the business owner is ruined for nothing).
I agree compassion and understanding on an individual level are definitely required in resolving this matter. Two things really lacking in this world.
I wonder if compassion was one of the reasons the Fed created the ADA in the first place.
You sound like a very reasonable, humble, intelligent and overall nice person. We would probably get along. With that said, I would say, "Somewhat" because old businesses were grandfathered in for the most part, which makes sense. I am ticked about forcing you to comply with the law or be forced into poverty-especially by people that can't make it without sucking the government teat.
You are in a great business-see an opportunity, create jobs. I like it. As for the activist judges and our representatives-Christ said it best (as He obviously always does) "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers."
Putting people out of business for the sake of something that is completely unnecessary is the dumbest thing dreamed up by people that have never worked or never been poor.
The "Fed" does nothing out of compassion. Kennedy and all of his "those poor kids in Mississippi" lines for extending welfare and integration was truly only about votes.
The ADA was a result of an extension of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to further remove power from the people. It sounds good in theory but the results tend to only hurt white male business owners. However, ADA
The ADA was 1990 under NWO Shill GHW Bush. It all sounds wonderful but when you let people getting bribed and paid only by the government, you get fascism and corruption, which is what 95% of every 1964 (Civil Rights) and 1981 (ADA) claim have ever been about in this country.
Just thoughts. God bless you.
