Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I find it funny that some people love to parrot the politically correct idea of the day oooohhh we need to assist our wounded warriors like in this ludicrous law....
Yet these same people are completely clueless to the sorry state and care our warriors get at the VA hospitals....
Yup, lets force laws like this and many other feel good laws on the people while disregarding what would really help our warriors the most...
Illegal aliens get better health care than our wounded warriors........
Go homogenize on that for awhile......
Is this thread about the VA? No one on here said anything about whether or not the VA is good or bad. The thread is about providing access to pools for the handicapped, which, unfortunately, does include many veterans.
If conditions about medical care for veterans is your concern, start another thread dedicated to that and I think you will find that many people agree with you.
Over the past several years I've worked in a couple of large office buildings, with multiple private and government offices. And they have all the required ramps, bathroom stalls, electronic doors, etc. etc....Everything except one thing - People handicapped enoough to use them.
I am sure there are some severely handicapped people capable of working...But not that many. We just have too many facilities. It's a waste of money.
In my 5 years of working in 2 large and new buildings, I have not yet seen 1 wheelchair person. Simply because there are not enough qualified for work...(you can't sit at a desk, doing a job, with a one on one tutor or assistant, can you?...the tutors or assistants would be the ones deserving of the salary...Let's get real!!!)
Most of the time the parking spaces are nearly empty...except for the people that abuse handicapped stickers. And I can say that, as after working anywhere, speaking to other people you hear of someone that has a health difficulty (like you hear all the hardluck stories...He just lost his wife, her house caught on fire, they have a sick child, etc. etc...).
Though at other times, the spaces sit empty (who has not seen this in any parking lot).
Ihave to state though that I am one of those people that you see walking out of a car in a handicapped space - and this is because I just dropped them off in front of the building and am locating the car for our exit. So, this you will see with others also.
Does every pool have to have access?...Is it really necessary that someone simply cant use the pool?...Will it give the rest of us the rights to check their diapers to make sure we are not being exposed to human waste (that's fair).
I take care of a handicapped person - full time, day and night, for years....There are far worse problems for the handicapped than taking a damned dip in a pool. ...You can start with health services, that are more readily available to people that never paid a penny in taxes, than they are to someone that worked 30 or 40 years of their lives.
Even someone that walked across the border 2 months ago has more (health care) rights than someone that worked here and paid taxes all their lives. And that's a real fact!
As far as access - When you are truly handicapped, you do not have the time nor always have the energy to get out and do everything there is to do...There are phones and computers to communicate business. You cannot afford to go to many concerts, nor do you really want to go to a resort...Be real - you only want a nice room and a balcony. Becuse a truly handicapped person does not have the energy to do much. When we travel, mostly we end up staying in a room, and perhaps getting out once or twice in a weeks time, for only a couple of hours.
Is this thread about the VA? No one on here said anything about whether or not the VA is good or bad. The thread is about providing access to pools for the handicapped, which, unfortunately, does include many veterans.
Go take a look at post #250 to see who opened the floodgates.....
Is this thread about the VA? No one on here said anything about whether or not the VA is good or bad. The thread is about providing access to pools for the handicapped, which, unfortunately, does include many veterans.
If conditions about medical care for veterans is your concern, start another thread dedicated to that and I think you will find that many people agree with you.
Since veterans are handicapped and they use the pool they it is relevant to the topic at hand. Maybe the VA wants to install some pools for all we know.
Since veterans are handicapped and they use the pool they it is relevant to the topic at hand. Maybe the VA wants to install some pools for all we know.
Except it should be confined to the topic, and not a tangent on how VA medical care is so bad. Pretty sure if the VA does install pools they will be up to ADA code, or, for existing ones, they have been brought up to code.
Yes. It's a relatively trivial amount of money. In a socialist country, in which the citizens fight to steal from one another, it's of little consequence that we steal a little less so that the physically challenged can use public accommodations.
Quote:
Originally Posted by plwhit
Black bootie, intelligent....
I know what you want:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrWVMc1MYOM]
Be still, my heart. I think I'm in love.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
The point is it is "overkill" once again
