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D.O.J. Revises Americans With Disabilities Act With Changes Effective This Thursday

D.O.J. Revises Americans with Disabilities Act With Changes Effective This ThursdayLast year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced major revisions were being made to the Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA) guidelines on accessibility. All entities covered by the ADA have until Thursday, March 15, to comply with these new standards.

“The new rules usher in a new day for the more than 50 million individuals with disabilities in this country,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. “The rules will expand accessibility in a number of areas and, for the first time, provide detailed guidance on how to make recreation facilities, including parks and swimming pools, accessible.”

Under the guidance of Attorney General Eric Holder, the new ADA rules were signed on July 23, 2010, the official text was published in the Federal Register on September 15, 2010, the regulations went into effect March 15, 2011, and the compliance deadline is set for this Thursday.

“The new ADA rules adopt the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design, which have been retooled to be more user-friendly for building code officials, builders, and architects, and have been harmonized with state and local accessibility codes,” the DOJ explained last year.

The revisions will affect “more than 80,000 units” of state and local government and “more than seven million places of public accommodation,” according the DOJ’s news release.

The “units” and businesses affected by new ADA rules include: stores, restaurants, shopping malls, libraries, museums, sporting arenas, movie theaters, doctors’ and dentists’ offices, hotels, jails and prisons, polling places, and emergency preparedness shelters.

“Fortunately, the new provisions allow for ‘safe harbor’ for elements that were required under and comply with the old 1991 Standards for Accessible Design,” Patrick Mayock of HotelNewsNow.com explains.

He continues:

If a hotelier previously moved the light switch in a single-user, lobby bathroom down to 52 inches above the finished floor in order to comply with the original ADA regulations for Title III, for example, that hotelier would not have to then move the switch down to the revised 48-inch requirement as under the more stringent 2010 standards, he said.

“If you comply with the 1991 standard, which might be slightly different, that would qualify for this safe harbor,” said Doug Anderson, a partner with LCM Architects.

The new regulations signed off by Eric Holder will apply only to, say, hoteliers who modify or renovate after 15 March 2012 — the deadline for the new ADA regulations.D.O.J. Revises Americans with Disabilities Act With Changes Effective This Thursday

The DOJ’s revisions include new standards on making swimming pools, parks, golf courses, boating facilities, exercise clubs, and other recreation facilities more “accessible for individuals with disabilities.”

For instance, according to the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design, all swimming pools must have at least two accessible means of entry for individuals with disabilities and all wading pools and spas must have one. And by “accessible means,” the DOJ includes swimming pool lifts, sloped entries, transfer walls, transfer systems, and/or pool stairs.

The 2010 ADA rules stipulate that swimming pools must have a lift or a slope, wading pools must have a slope, and spas must have a pool lift, a transfer wall or a transfer system. The 2010 ADA standards are actually quite detailed.

EXCEPTIONS:

1. Where a swimming pool has less than 300 linear feet (91 m) of swimming pool wall, no more than one accessible means of entry shall be required provided that the accessible means of entry is a swimming pool lift complying with 1009.2 or sloped entry complying with 1009.3.

2. Wave action pools, leisure rivers, sand bottom pools, and other pools where user access is limited to one area shall not be required to provide more than one accessible means of entry provided that the accessible means of entry is a swimming pool lift complying with 1009.2, a sloped entry complying with 1009.3, or a transfer system complying with 1009.5.

3. Catch pools shall not be required to provide an accessible means of entry provided that the catch pool edge is on an accessible route.

In addition to adopting the 2010 ADA standards, the revised regulations contain several new or expanded provisions on “general nondiscrimination policies” including:

  • The use of service animals
  • The use of wheelchairs and other power-driven mobility devices
  • Selling tickets for wheelchair-accessible seating at sports and performance venues
  • Reserving and guaranteeing accessible rooms at hotels
  • Providing interpreter services through video conferencing
  • The effect of the new regulations on existing facilities

To assist government units and private businesses in meeting the requirements of the amended regulations (and understanding what’s all included in the changes) the DOJ has released two documents that can be viewed here:  “ADA Update: A Primer for Small Business and ADA 2010 Revised Requirements: Effective Date/Compliance Date.

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  • jblovesAmerica
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:34pm

    Just one answer-close down all the properties affected by these rules-
    Place a sign over the closed pool“Closed due to Stupidity of the DOJ”

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:58pm

      Of all the things this DOJ could be doing, they spent a considerable amount of time and money on this ? I bet this legislation has all kinds of traps in it that will fit, hand in glove, with Obamacare regs. I do not trust anything this Admin does…..none of it is as it seems on the surface. As GB once said Cass Sunstien ( Regulations Czar ) is the most dangerous man in America….I wonder what, ruinous to private enterprise, regs he has woven into this “benevolent” law. Since when has an appointed official had the power to write law regulations anyway ? Nothing written by a Czar ( an unelected position in an office not recognized by the constitution) should be allowed to stand anyway ? Am I missing something here ?

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    • GardenoftheGods
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 1:11pm

      JB, You got that right! As a disabled person I don’t ask for anything special. I try to walk as far as I can & the DOJ does things to make me MORE dependent. I don’t like it; and neither should you!

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    • TheCoffinMaker
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 1:23pm

      How dare you deny a handicap person their right to pee in the pool!

      Shame on you.

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    • starman70
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 1:44pm

      Instead of prosecuting law breakers such as the Black Panthers, Fast and Furious criminals, violent and dangerous illegal immigrints and suspected Islamic terrorists, The DOJ wastes time and rescources of making it far more expensive for businesses to operate.

      The destruction of America is well underway.

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    • BarackStalin
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:00pm

      Where does Holder get the authority to make changes to existing law? Congress had to approve this law and the president had to sign it.

      If you want to change it, wouldn’t it have to go before congress again?

      Or is it just better if the great leader becomes supreme dictator?

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:42pm

      The Department of “Justice” is a private corporation.

      Shouldn’t that explain it all?
      http://www.manta.com/c/mmcmldj/united-states-department-of-justice

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:46pm

      I guess one of the Global Elite’s relatives just got their Pool Lift Corporation completed and the nice lucrative contract that goes with it.
      Also, a nifty “government” (also a private corporation) forced mandate to make everybody buy Cousin Evander the III Snootwhistle’s new product.

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:00pm

      EXACTLY what I was thinking! What abunch of Dumba$$e$!

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    • Alky
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:00pm

      How does the federal admin have ANY jurisdiction over 99% of the nonsense they’re bringing forward?

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    • db321
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:02pm

      Muslim’s do not like Public Swimming – Why doesn’t Holder just show his hand and come out and say that he and Obama are Fundamentally Changing America to Sharia!

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    • db321
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:11pm

      ProbIemSoIver – I went to the Link you posted on Manta – I noticed that Holder did not claim the listing – therefore any one can log in to Manta and Claim this site as the owner – this would give that person the ability to change anything on the site.

      Maybe change Holders photo – add a few comments – maybe a comment from Holder saying that he admits to knowing about Fast and Furious and Obama knew about it as well.

      Just saying – anyone can do it!

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    • POdVet
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:11pm

      This is plain and simple payback to the unions for supporting Obama. All these updates will be performed by Obama supporting unions with I’m sure a “donation” for Obama accompanying the work order.

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    • ScarletRose
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:22pm

      That is always my first response. I am old enough to remember life BEFORE all these regulations, and mobility of handicapped is better now than then, with scooters and electric wheelchairs and modern engineering of such thing. Yet I see small places well accessible by any handicapped standards having to build special parking and ramps for totally non-existent excuses, i.e. where the sidewalk is NOT an impediment – ALREADY! Some of those places didn’t have the money to make expensive and insignificant changes when smaller and less expensive modifications would have served as well. And they had no customers who were handicapped at all in many instances. Really insane. It is one thing to do this in new buildings – I’ve seen stories where ramps costing several thousand dollars were required for as little as 8 running feet and less expensive changes ELIMINATING A NEED FOR ANY RAMP were REFUSED by Govt regulators.

      Government is the kind of idiocy that requires a dozen UNION workers to change a lightbulb to a table lamp. At Hazard pay.

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    • libtardian-refugee
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:11pm

      Go to hell Jamescasey. Do not click on his link, It’s a pain in the butt to get off of it, and if it were true, he would go there himself and not bother telling you

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:10pm

      At one time, we had a Congress that was charged with legislative changes to “Acts” passed in their respective bodies.

      Today, we have a man with a dramatically distorted view of law, a perverted concept of the common lexicon and “IS” running an international smuggling operation that includes weapons, drugs, money and people, using federal agencies and departments as cover for his operation.

      These are the actions of a despotic government and a wildly rouge Department of Justice.

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:25pm

      Handicapped people pay the same taxes as everyone else, money that goes into the parks, libraries, schools and other public facilities, and well as paying taxes to protect those buildings, such as when fire department has respond to a fire or medical emergency there. This is the United States. We accommodate our own even if it costs money. In this country we take care of our own, like family, even if or maybe especially if they are handicapped.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:11pm

      I was a Lifeguard for a few years in the past. I have never seen, or want to see, a handicap wheelchair access ramp into a swimming pool. Apparently, Holder does. Is this part of the Obama, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel “Complete Lives System”?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:06pm

      What does Eric Holder have to do with all of this? Isn’t this in the realm of Congress to legislate?

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    • turkey13
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:11pm

      Hey this should put 3 or 4 million folks to work. In our town of 20,000 they have nearly finished all intersections in town after two years for wheel chair axcess. There are two people that ride those little electric wheel chairs. I don‘t know why they don’t pay $.25 for callaride.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:53pm

      @jzs
      “Handicapped people pay the same taxes as everyone else…”

      Sorry ID 10 T but you are wrong once again. Handicapped people do not pay the same taxes as everyone else. Once they, the overly fat ones, get on food stamps and welfare they suck off the progressive breast. The last time I went to renew my driver’s license I saw the line of really fat people applying for handicapped parking. Every one of them was so fat because they are eating hi-on-the-hog off of food stamps. I went over and talked with several of them. They remind me of you. You are no William Wallace. You are a pig. You can suffer or you can call out…. FREEDOM!

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:57pm

      DOJ, DHS and the ADA, Oh Boy !!
      DOJ, DHS and the ADA, Oh Boy !!
      Watch the other hand !!
      Oh, and No Voter ID NEEDED, Oh Boy!!

      Better watch these Sneaky Bastar**s…

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 12:28am

      Why Thursday? Saint Patrick‘s day isn’t until Saturday.

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    • huufarted
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 1:40am

      I certainly hope to see Dunce Caps or some other form of Protective Headgear required for all Registered Democrats moving forward …

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    • Ayla_me
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:47am

      I am with those who point out that Eric Holder has no Constitutional right to change/pass a law! This country’s rulings are turning into insanity upon insanity, and unGodliness upon unGodliness. I am disabled, and yes, I have a hard time walking at times. (My condition varies, and is still being studied by doctors…but, it hurts.) But, thew thought of having any kind of accessable pools, etc, is ridiculous. I enjoy walking in the woods on my “good” days: will they make nature trails accessable, too? How about “Rock Walls”? I used to love the challenge of such things. That I cannot enjoy them now, does NOT mean I want it to be changed for others. Silly, illegal, unConstitutional Law. Kick Holder out….NOW, please!

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    • bigpicture
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 3:48pm

      Some hotels have “spas” so small that a wheelchair lift would fill the whole hot-tub. Of course, to comply, most hotels will just raise rates and close these amenities while they are rebuilt. By the way, does the Caesar’s Palace lobby fountain need a retrofit? What if a drunk handicapped person wants to “go crazy” and get into the fountain? Must they be accommodated? How do you accomodate the handicapped on a treadmill or stepper?

      While time, money and energy are concentrated on a non-existing problem, gun runners, drug dealers and terrorists will have more cover. In the end, I doubt many will actually use the new features. I say keep hotel rates low. Empty all pools. Post a sign: “Compliments of your DOJ.”

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    • BarackStalin
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:52pm

      JZS,

      Yes, I agree. We and our elected representatives determine this though…Each state determines this because what is best for Florida might not be best for Alaska…

      Not one guy in an office in Washington decides what is best for all Americans based on what he read in some stupid report or based on what lobbyist bought him the nicest beach house.

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:34pm

    Have you seen how much fat parking is in front of most stores/malls?

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    • angelcat
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Have you noticed the parking for expectant mothers? When I was pregnant they told me it was good for me to walk. Apparently that is no longer true. It’s not like the lady has to carry the bags since she can use a cart. I don’t get this at all. I think we should have special “very tired today” parking spots or “sore feet” spots or “old and crabby” spots.

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    • muddpuddle
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 1:02pm

      Just wait till they declare “race”, “religion”, and “sexual orientation” to be disabilities. They’ll have parking for Muslims, private bathrooms and hotel rooms for gays, ….. And more…

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    • AB5r
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:35pm

      And imagine the irony when you have Muslim parking at the liquor store or BBQ joint.

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    • libtardian-refugee
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:15pm

      As a fat guy, I take no offense, since i would rather walk an extra 200 feet rather than park next to an idiot. Also my fat is a self control problem, not a damned handycap.

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    • Amma K
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 7:09pm

      I have seen soooo many people who are NOT handicapped, yet have the handicap parking tag, that are able to walk the distance. I have a brother who is disabled – in a wheelchair as a paraplegic – and when he goes to the store there are few if any spots left for him to park. I think that people who are able to walk should be grateful and willing to do so!!

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    • Ramv36
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:51am

      @angelcat What I‘ve seen recently that bothered me was ’green parking’, reserved parking spots closest to the store for hybrid cars only. AND it was one space closer to the door than the handicap reserved spots.
      My father is a double-leg amputee, and not in my entire 28 years have I seen him park in a handicapped space. He doesn’t even get a permit. To quote him when I asked why: “I’d rather leave that space open for someone who ACTUALLY needs it”
      Of course, he was a 101st Airborne Ranger, so that explains much of the ‘can’t keep ME down’ attitude.

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  • Buddynoel
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:34pm

    I always called this the “Attorney’s Employment Act.” More frivolous lawsuits coming to your door soon.

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:27pm

      Show me how many Democrat politicians there are who are not lawyers.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:30pm

      I would shut things down so NO ONE has them … I will totally understand if the next time I stay in a hotel .. the pool and gym facilities are closed. Shut them all down and see what happens with this stupid law.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 12:12am

      @ Buddynoel
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:34pm
      I always called this the “Attorney’s Employment Act.” More frivolous lawsuits coming to your door soon.
      You are so right, the Lawsuits will be coming “Fast and Furious”
      Ospender in Chief needs mo cash !!

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:04am

      Who was that [ambulance-chaser]-lawyer/democrat who “tried” to run for president? He “played” all courts with fakery, theatre and un-truths/lies to get his clients off. Then , HE did the same thing to try to get elected–not…but, HE had great hair! ;o)

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:33pm

    I wonder if the ADA will require a large wheelchair ramp up to the top of the slide at Water World?

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:44pm

      NO – an elevator with a sign “DISABLED ONLY”.

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    • eagle2715
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:59pm

      Don’t forget wheel chair access to the treadmill rooms at Golds Gym…..

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  • shammo
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:32pm

    Holder should be made to walk the plank. Pretty soon outhouses will be banned unless they have an elevator.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:28pm

    So, now having your head squarely up your behind is now officially a disability, instead of a state of being.

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  • BrerRabbit
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:28pm

    Well. There go all the swimming pools and spas at hotels!

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:34pm

      Nancy Pelosi didnt drain the swamp, she got Holder to drain the swimming pool though!

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:43pm

      I used to go to a gym where I would swim laps and then one day this Lift Device showed up on one side of the pool with part of it reaching down into the water even when not in use. This hunk of metal was a hazard as far as I was concerned, I frequently came close to hitting it with my arm each time I went by it and with it there that particular lane could no longer accommodate two swimmers at one time if needed. If I had run into it and hurt myself nothing would have been done because I’m a healthy white male who is not only the only segment of the population who does not belong to a victim class, I am the cause of all wrongs in the world…..or so I’m told through the medias reeducation.

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  • neverending
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:27pm

    Basically more attack on businesses – as if they need any more additonal cost then this administration has already put upon them. Just total bs plain and simple.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:23pm

    If I were a otelier I would do one simple thing…Tell me where you get the authority to do this in the Constitution. Then I would tell them to go jump in the lake after they kissed my a@@…But of course we have no REAL men that have Hotels, just liberal bluebloods that will comply…

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 1:20pm

      You don’t see an heir of Hilton doing just that? Cancel that. Little doggy slides will be next. Something to make you happy about.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 1:26pm

      Doggies dont need help…Only sissies like you need help.

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    • Komponist-ZAH
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:31pm

      “If I were a otelier I would do one simple thing…Tell me where you get the authority to do this in the Constitution.”

      And Holder would say:

      “Constitution? We don‘t need no stinkin’ Constitution, Doggy boy.”

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:21pm

    .
    I think Ya’ll ment to say:

    D.O.J. Revises the Black Americans with Disabilities Act With Changes Effective This Thursday…..

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  • Moozmom
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:20pm

    I’m mentally disabled just considering what this government is doing to Americans!

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  • momsense
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:15pm

    Another major expenditure of scarce resources. Is Obozo going to pay for the renovations.?

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:24pm

      No mom…you will with rate increases…You think these hotels will just eat that cost?

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:14pm

    so Paul Ryan can no longer push people in wheel chairs into pools because Republicans want you to die quickly?

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    • Ramv36
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:57am

      On the flip-side, Democrats want you to die slowly. Just ask the Schiavos…

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  • Charybdis
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:14pm

    Hold on to your wallets! We have yet to see the impact to the private sector of yet another government encroachment. Obama hates the private sector.

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    • pscully17
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:29pm

      and by Private sector.. you mean YOU and ME…. we are no longer citizens of equal value.. we are inconvenient subjects of which he has to feed house and clothe… he doesnt give a rats ash about us… do the liberals who support him NOT Understand this? The Obama Elite admin lives their lives with high levels of contempt for the NOn- Elite and especially those of us that oppose him… he tolerates the Occupy Ws types, because they are temporarily useful.. but much like Hitler and the labor unions.. once Obama gets total power… the Unions are going to be a huge headache and sooooo costly to maintain.. he will destroy them and in the end.. they will be placed in the cess pool with the rest of us…..look up Hitler and labor Unions on bing… I say bing, because im sure by now google has erased an historical reference to the events and schemes that vaulted Hitler into power.

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  • Longing for Change
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:13pm

    a must see!!

    http://www.peoplesniper.com/alter-baby-pool-people-pic-119.html

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  • korbin
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:13pm

    I live in a so cal depressed desert town, besides the meth heads we lead the capital in Guvment funded huvarounds with a 500 lb fat ass on it? that is disabled? get up walk and you will start to feel better and lose wight and just maybe you can reverse your issues. Is it like 1/10 of 1% of actual disabled people? we are all disabled, watch TV they will be sure to tell you which disease you should ask your Dr about or which attorney to call to get your share of 5$ in a billion dollar law suit because you may or may not have taken a drug for the non disease you were told you have and now there are side affects. We are weak. Please join oathkeepers.org

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  • Beckofile
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:12pm

    provide video conference interpreter services???? What I don’t even have an iphone? Who pays for this service and what is the cost for such services? If it will just save one life won’t it be worth it? NO

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  • 80mesh
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:12pm

    The revisions will effect “more than 80,000 units” of state and local government

    ( these will remain non compliant on a waiver of some sort”)

    and “more than seven million places of public accommodation,” …(read private owned) will be shut down ….

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    • happ77
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:48pm

      The 80,000 units will be made compliant with our
      tax dollars and union workers.

      ABO

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  • liberalescheisskopf
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:11pm

    Next will be ADA rules for access into YOUR HOME. After all, a disabled person may want to visit.

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    • wewantchillywilly
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:16pm

      only a matter of time before we find out which people in congress have massive investments into the companies that make these sorts of lifts.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:20pm

      I am disabled and run/own my own business, I have been sued by people with disabilities who call to apply for a job but are deaf and I do not have a phone system to handle it. My insurance settles, this has happened 4 times. my attorney checked the background of the first person who did this and they have won over 600k in 10 years by scamming businesses like mine. I am so frustrated by the rampant misuse of these laws. Once word got out about the lawsuit I get a ton of disabled applicants looking to trip me up and sue me. I now only hire ex military folks and don’t advertise for job openings. It is sad.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:28pm

      @Horsecrazy….I shut down my business long ago because i saw what was coming down the pike. I refused to modify my building to code and just shut it down. That was in the 80s
      We all need to just go Galt and shut the whole damn country down….or go underground with your products…

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:50pm

      Wow that is an unbelievable story Horsecrazy…and when I say unbelievable I mean totally believable in this upside down world of commie progressives where evil is good and good is considered evil.

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    • Ramv36
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:00am

      @Horsecrazy
      Maybe that is why so often you see job openings specifically stipulate “No phone calls”. I always thought it was to reduce unnecessary non-customer call volume, but now I‘m not so sure others haven’t gone through the same ordeal you have and said screw it.

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  • Minonkman
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:08pm

    Where does all the fine money go? Is it turned into low interest loans, to help business’s comply or does it just go to some fats cats pocket.

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  • The_Jerk
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:06pm

    I am disabled. Don’t treat me as being different, but treat me differently. I’m another victim.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:11pm

      me too and I do not need special treatment. if a place doesn‘t fit my needs I don’t go there. its pretty simple

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:21pm

      Pretty soon they will start shooting the disabled so what difference does this make?

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  • Brian
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:06pm

    I’m sure it will be quite cheap to make golf course wheelchair accessible.

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  • bigspike
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:04pm

    more Washington BS…the same idiots that sued a trucking company over not allowing an alcoholic behind the wheel of a big rig

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:03pm

    It looks like we have one more case of the ever encroaching fist of government; while it appears to be for the aid of the disabled I can easily see this being used by the Fed’s to coerce, intimidate and put pressure on any group that ‘steps the least bit out of line’ with threats of massive fines and jail time.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:11pm

      It will also require restaurants/ public places to spend, spend, spend more money to comply. This administration is working as hard and fast as possible to put small businesses out of business and to regulate them into oblivion, not to mention creating more debt to have gov buildings, etc. comply.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 12:01pm

    OK… Pyss us off… Hit the News… So, what is the Administration covering up this time?

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