Let's Eliminate Government-Mandated Handicapped Parking Spots.

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The 1950s was the greatest decade in the history of America. At least the first half.

You wouldn't say that if you were black, a woman, or not rich enough to get a good education.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The person who borrows someone's car who is handicap and uses the hanger anyway, or, the person who rides with a handicap driver but the driver stays in the vehicle while their non handicap passenger gets out of the vehicle and goes into the store.

I know you can't always tell who is handicap, but sometimes people get out of the car and they look like they are moving just fine.

My wife and I both qualify for a handicapped parking placard, but I don't need one since she got her placard first. She has two artificial hips and if they aren't bothering her, she can walk for miles, but you never know when that might not be possible. She often does carry a cane just in case.

I had a liver transplant and spent 3 months in the hospital afterward and was bedridden and had to learn to walk again by building up my strength. I already had bad knees from standing watch on steel decks for years. Before I even had the transplant, I had to use the electric carts to shop, but I have mostly recovered.

My daughter was discharged from the Army because she tore her ankle up so badly that the surgical repairs even failed. She has VA 80% disability rating because she cannot stand for extended periods, but she can literally walk for miles.

My son and I attended the Grand Ole Opry tonight in Nashville. While parking, they directed me to the handicapped parking lot, separate from the others. When we parked and got out of the car, a gentleman in a golf cart pulled up and told us to hop aboard as he would take us up the hill to the show. My son is a 100% disabled vet. The Opry has elevators that we could have taken all the way up to only a small set of stairs to out nosebleed seats. When we came out, the elevators were busy so I walked down 4 huge flights of stairs to get out, and then down a about 75-yard-long ramp back to the parking lot when the line for the golf cart was too long and we could walk, so we did. We didn't want to make people worse than us to wait.

You can't tell by looking at any one of us that we have a handicap, except when my wife carries her cane.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Who has parking meters anymore? My town got shed of them near 40 years ago.

You need to get out more.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Handicapped --

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NOT HANDICAPPED.....

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It's simple

At least she provided her own scooter.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Here’s one for you. My friend has a restaurant at the end of a strip mall. There are parking spaces in the middle, but also a row of spaces right up to the doors. The law says the handicapped spaces have to be nearest to the entrance of the strip. So two of the five spaces in front of his restaurant are handicapped. All day. Every day. Something wrong with that.

I’ll tell you what’s wrong. Leftwing sons of bitches pass unfunded mandates for a new victim class and stick it to businesses (which they hate) in the process. In essence they say to businesses “We don’t care. YOU figure it out and YOU pay for it”. And as we know, leftwingers want victim groups to get bigger and bigger. (Witness SSI). The logical progression here is handicapped parking should soon include those with mental issues, since it might be stressful if they have to walk farther. Who would be surprised?

People who are handicapped do not get SSI necessarily. You are mixing your terms.

 

[Winco]

Disabled veteran with defined medical conditions, yes.

Absolutely, as well as 90 year olds. You got a problem with that?

Fatass from eating too many Little Debbies: no.

True, but many of these obese people truly have a disability.
Some are abusing the system, but I like to get in my steps and parking AWAY from other cars.
I have NO problem parking 200 feet away and walking.
What got up your ASS, you are capable of walking 200 feet, right?

You could have gotten a HC sticker, you would appear to have more fun bitching about those with HC stickers.

But in either case, let the business decide how to handle it. And if they make the wrong decision, let them deal with the blowback.

Get trump on it.
Another way to piss off a huge population, at the expense of a few abusers.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Drop the weight and stop taking spots from deserving people. That’s all I’m asking.

This morning, I weighed three pounds more than when I graduated from high school. I tire easily, have knees that make walking up and down stairs extremely painful, and can pass out when my blood pressure crashes from exercise. I didn't have those problems 46 years ago. I'll keep my handicapped parking space, thank you!

 

[Winco]

My son and I attended the Grand Ole Opry tonight in Nashville.

I hope you guys had a wonderful time at the Opry.

 

[Couchpotato]

Given this thread it is no wonder the US is grossly obese.

 

[Mashmont]

^^^

A is a subset of B doesn’t mean B is a subset of A. If all morbidly obese old people have back and knee pain, it doesn’t mean all with back and knee pain are morbidly obese. Didn’t you take geometry?

 

[initforme]

I have been to parking lots that reserve spaces for the disabled, old people, veterans, and pregnant women.

Lol.

Oh how awful that is. This is so horrific.

 

[initforme]

No era is perfect but there plenty of good in the 50’s

Yeah. Unions were strong at that time.

 

[initforme]

You were trying to pursue higher Ed in the 1950s but couldn’t?

Alot less women were at that time because of the immoral societal pressure to marry young and have kids, wash rinse repeat. Theres less of an emphasis for women to do that now so they are more free to pursue their own lives, not what any society tells them to. Id call that a major gain in freedom.

 

[Mac-7]

Yeah. Unions were strong at that time.

Stronger in the northeast than other places

I’m neither pro or anti union as long as everyone plays in the center

No union busting, or outrageous anti company demands

 

[initforme]

Stronger in the northeast than other places

I’m neither pro or anti union as long as everyone plays in the center

No union busting, or outrageous anti company demands

Yheres seldom ever anti company demands. It most always a case of worker abuse.

 

[Mac-7]

Yheres seldom ever anti company demands. It most always a case of worker abuse.

You dont sound like a centrist but more like a company hater

 

[initforme]

You dont sound like a centrist but more like a company hater

Given the opportunity most all companies would quickly get rid of
1) worker breaks
2) worker lunch time
3) overtime wages
4) safety laws
5) hazardous chemical precautions
6) environmental regulations that keep air and water safe
7) unions altogether
8) family medical leave rules

I could go on and on.

 

[Mac-7]

Given the opportunity most all companies would quickly get rid of
1) worker breaks
2) worker lunch time
3) overtime wages
4) safety laws
5) hazardous chemical precautions
6) environmental regulations that keep air and water safe
7) unions altogether
8) family medical leave rules

I could go on and on.

at the same time if workers could party all night and show up for work drunk or high on drugs many would

Human nature is not pretty at either extreme

Thats why I support labor agreements in the center that both sides are subject to

 

[initforme]

at the same time if workers could party all night and show up for work drunk or high on drugs many would

Human nature is not pretty at either extreme

Thats why I support labor agreements in the center that both sides are subject to

I can live with that. Its very important workers can have a voice at the table. After all, what people dont like to hear but is a fact is worker and emoyer have an adversarial relationship. Its a conflict that has always existed and always will.

 

[Mashmont]

Given the opportunity most all companies would quickly get rid of
1) worker breaks
2) worker lunch time
3) overtime wages
4) safety laws
5) hazardous chemical precautions
6) environmental regulations that keep air and water safe
7) unions altogether
8) family medical leave rules

I could go on and on.

Smart companies would keep the things that are necessary like lunch time. Unions are a cancer, divisive by nature, and should be done away with. The left always pits one group against another. Conservatives see management and labor as part of the same team. Smart companies will treat workers that way. Wages are between the company and worker. Government, once again, should stay the hell out.