Lord Long Rod
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Handicap Parking and Disability in America
Before you start frothing at the mouth, let me say that I have no problem with allowing a crippled person to have preferential treatment in parking. That is not the issue here. The issue is that far too many people take advantage of this social subside. Moreover, far too many people are allowed to take advantage of this privilege.
I see people all the time with handicap plates and stickers who can walk just fine. They do not need to have preference in parking. At what point should we consider them for preference? It should take far more than just a little pain. I also think age should come into play. You can handle paid better when you are younger.
I think that you should have debilitating pain caused by motion and/or a crippling condition in order to get parking preference. I also think that if you are under 50 your application should be strictly scrutinized and require medical documentation.
Being fat, and complications suffered therefrom, should never be a basis for parking preference. 99 times out of 100, it is YOUR eating choices and YOUR lifestyle choices that make you fat. I don’t care about some obscure medical condition that makes you fat beyond your control. Those can be dealt with on an ad hoc basic. So save your breath trying to use one of those hypothetical cases to argue with me. You all know damn well that 99/100 cases of obesity and complications therefrom are caused by poor decision making. Fuck them. Let them walk across the parking cross in 100 degree heat. They need the exercise.
I think these handicapped spaces should be set aside for those who most need them. Even though they are closer to the entrances of locations, they still have to walk a certain distance to enter said locations. Thus, unless they are struggling between their car and the front door, then they do not deserve parking preference. I want to see them in pain as they walk to the front door. THIS is who these handicap spots are for, and nobody else. If you are not in pain walking from your handicap spot to the front door, then you do not deserve a handicap spot!
Ever since the 2008 recession, when Obama unconstitutionally eased the requirements for Social Security Disability handouts as a response to the situation where people have exhausted their unemployment benefits, more and more people gladly take the designation of disabled. It means free money, handicap parking, and Medicare. Barry 5-0 took a system from disabled people and converted it into a wealth redistribution system with absolutely no constitutional authority to do so (“fundamental transformation”). This is but one of many examples of the left’s tribal warfare practices.
I was thinking to myself this morning that even if I could get a handicap tag, I would not do it. I am from a time when being “disabled” was avoided. It was a thing nobody wanted to befall himself, his friends and family, his neighbors, or his enemies. When you think of “disabled”, you think (or, used to think) about some dude without a leg. Maybe a crane falls over on it. Maybe he gets sucked into a thresher. Whatever the case, the poor bastard has a physical condition that prevents him from being gainfully employed.
But now the system has expanded. People get disability payments because of all sorts of bullshit, like anxiety, diabetes, depression, etc… This is horse shit. It takes SSD away from people who desperately need it and makes it a general welfare plan.
To be sure, there are people who would be shitting in a bucket in an alley in the winter if not for SSD; but for their condition, they would work and support themselves. Today, a portion of SSD beneficiaries are just lazy fuckers….. Lazy, no-good, trough feeding motherfuckers who do not pay taxes.
My feeling is this: If you are going to give SSD payments to someone with some “soft disability” (e.g., anxiety, depression), then they should also have their legs broken in order to legitimize the expense. I would not have a problem with it then because they paid the same price as the guy with a “hard disability”. This would equalize it in my eyes.
You are probably wondering at this point whether I park in handicap spaces given your inaccurate assessment of me as hostile to invalids. Yes, I have. But 99% of the time I do not park in them because I follow the law. When I have parked there it was very short term and there were other welfare parking spots available. I do this maybe once in every 10 years period. You probably thought I did this all the time, but that is where you are wrong. See, I am not a Democrat voter. I have morals and standards.
My Vision for Handicap Parking
If a person is so physically crippled that he/she cannot from his car to the front door, then they should be shuttled inside in something like an electric golf cart. This will make it easier on them. Further, it means that we can park them wherever. We could put them at the far end of the lot, then shuttle them in on golf carts, getting them out of the way for general parking.
Obviously, we cannot do this everywhere. I propose that shuttle service be limited to establishments involving necessities (food and medical, not porn and liquor) with some threshold traffic level. We then pay for it with money we take back from the people taking taxpayer money on account of “soft disabilities”. If you cannot work due to anxiety or stress, then you don’t belong in society. You are no good to anybody like that! There is no reason we should be encouraging this behavior by subsidizing it with taxpayer money. In the places we cannot do this, like the Asian massage parlor, then the current handicap parking convention will suffice.
Epilogue
The thumb sucking crybabies on the left will wet themselves over this. But remember, Eskimos used to place their elders on chunks of ice and push them off the coast and out into their ocean. Hypothermia is a very peaceful way to die. The old could not pull their weight, yet required food and care. As such, they were a drag on their society. I am not going there with what I say. I want to care for our old and feeble people. I do not want my tax money going to some 30 year old with easily hurt feelings so he can spend $200/mo. to access jack-off videos online or use to buy lottery tickets.
This is beyond debate. We ALL see the abuses around us, no the least of which is preferential parking. Nobody under 50 should get a handicap sticker unless they are in a wheelchair. When people get older, they start having balance problems (see e.g., old man Biden). They don’t need to be walking by themselves if they have balance problems. But if you are under 50, then you need to be missing limbs. PERIOD.
Before you start frothing at the mouth, let me say that I have no problem with allowing a crippled person to have preferential treatment in parking. That is not the issue here. The issue is that far too many people take advantage of this social subside. Moreover, far too many people are allowed to take advantage of this privilege.
I see people all the time with handicap plates and stickers who can walk just fine. They do not need to have preference in parking. At what point should we consider them for preference? It should take far more than just a little pain. I also think age should come into play. You can handle paid better when you are younger.
I think that you should have debilitating pain caused by motion and/or a crippling condition in order to get parking preference. I also think that if you are under 50 your application should be strictly scrutinized and require medical documentation.
Being fat, and complications suffered therefrom, should never be a basis for parking preference. 99 times out of 100, it is YOUR eating choices and YOUR lifestyle choices that make you fat. I don’t care about some obscure medical condition that makes you fat beyond your control. Those can be dealt with on an ad hoc basic. So save your breath trying to use one of those hypothetical cases to argue with me. You all know damn well that 99/100 cases of obesity and complications therefrom are caused by poor decision making. Fuck them. Let them walk across the parking cross in 100 degree heat. They need the exercise.
I think these handicapped spaces should be set aside for those who most need them. Even though they are closer to the entrances of locations, they still have to walk a certain distance to enter said locations. Thus, unless they are struggling between their car and the front door, then they do not deserve parking preference. I want to see them in pain as they walk to the front door. THIS is who these handicap spots are for, and nobody else. If you are not in pain walking from your handicap spot to the front door, then you do not deserve a handicap spot!
Ever since the 2008 recession, when Obama unconstitutionally eased the requirements for Social Security Disability handouts as a response to the situation where people have exhausted their unemployment benefits, more and more people gladly take the designation of disabled. It means free money, handicap parking, and Medicare. Barry 5-0 took a system from disabled people and converted it into a wealth redistribution system with absolutely no constitutional authority to do so (“fundamental transformation”). This is but one of many examples of the left’s tribal warfare practices.
I was thinking to myself this morning that even if I could get a handicap tag, I would not do it. I am from a time when being “disabled” was avoided. It was a thing nobody wanted to befall himself, his friends and family, his neighbors, or his enemies. When you think of “disabled”, you think (or, used to think) about some dude without a leg. Maybe a crane falls over on it. Maybe he gets sucked into a thresher. Whatever the case, the poor bastard has a physical condition that prevents him from being gainfully employed.
But now the system has expanded. People get disability payments because of all sorts of bullshit, like anxiety, diabetes, depression, etc… This is horse shit. It takes SSD away from people who desperately need it and makes it a general welfare plan.
To be sure, there are people who would be shitting in a bucket in an alley in the winter if not for SSD; but for their condition, they would work and support themselves. Today, a portion of SSD beneficiaries are just lazy fuckers….. Lazy, no-good, trough feeding motherfuckers who do not pay taxes.
My feeling is this: If you are going to give SSD payments to someone with some “soft disability” (e.g., anxiety, depression), then they should also have their legs broken in order to legitimize the expense. I would not have a problem with it then because they paid the same price as the guy with a “hard disability”. This would equalize it in my eyes.
You are probably wondering at this point whether I park in handicap spaces given your inaccurate assessment of me as hostile to invalids. Yes, I have. But 99% of the time I do not park in them because I follow the law. When I have parked there it was very short term and there were other welfare parking spots available. I do this maybe once in every 10 years period. You probably thought I did this all the time, but that is where you are wrong. See, I am not a Democrat voter. I have morals and standards.
My Vision for Handicap Parking
If a person is so physically crippled that he/she cannot from his car to the front door, then they should be shuttled inside in something like an electric golf cart. This will make it easier on them. Further, it means that we can park them wherever. We could put them at the far end of the lot, then shuttle them in on golf carts, getting them out of the way for general parking.
Obviously, we cannot do this everywhere. I propose that shuttle service be limited to establishments involving necessities (food and medical, not porn and liquor) with some threshold traffic level. We then pay for it with money we take back from the people taking taxpayer money on account of “soft disabilities”. If you cannot work due to anxiety or stress, then you don’t belong in society. You are no good to anybody like that! There is no reason we should be encouraging this behavior by subsidizing it with taxpayer money. In the places we cannot do this, like the Asian massage parlor, then the current handicap parking convention will suffice.
Epilogue
The thumb sucking crybabies on the left will wet themselves over this. But remember, Eskimos used to place their elders on chunks of ice and push them off the coast and out into their ocean. Hypothermia is a very peaceful way to die. The old could not pull their weight, yet required food and care. As such, they were a drag on their society. I am not going there with what I say. I want to care for our old and feeble people. I do not want my tax money going to some 30 year old with easily hurt feelings so he can spend $200/mo. to access jack-off videos online or use to buy lottery tickets.
This is beyond debate. We ALL see the abuses around us, no the least of which is preferential parking. Nobody under 50 should get a handicap sticker unless they are in a wheelchair. When people get older, they start having balance problems (see e.g., old man Biden). They don’t need to be walking by themselves if they have balance problems. But if you are under 50, then you need to be missing limbs. PERIOD.
