Don't get me wrong. The rulings that have created access for millions of this nation's disabled are a good thing.
But, this heavy handed approach to installing permanent lifts in the nation's pools is just so wrong. Thankfully, another reprieve has been issued...but, is this just another stay? Or, will the government realize that its totalitarian approach simply doesn't play.
It's one thing to demand access for all...but another to demand access when that access denies access to others. For, there is no way that thousands of pools across this country will be able to meet these new government regulations. And, thus...these pools will close. To everyone.
Pools that provide access to hundreds of people each day...but will be forced to close because a handful of people are unable to use the pool in its present configuration? And this makes sense how?
I don't pretend to know what it feels like to be disabled and not able to access a swimming pool.
But, I do know this. I'd never want my government to deny access to a pool for all my friends just because I couldn't.
How has it come to this?
Yet another instance where the Government is spending entirely to much time on minutia, rather than the Elephant in the room or the turd in the punch bowl.
Posted by: Paul W. Swansen | May 23, 2012 at 11:12
What Paul said.
"Too big to manage" applies not only to outfits like JP Morgan Chase, but also to the United States Government.
Posted by: Tim Morrissey | May 24, 2012 at 07:51
Two words: unintended consequences.
Posted by: MA | June 01, 2012 at 14:23