The anti-working class
I'm actually bored right now. Bored and sleep deprived and contemplating whether I should try writing something. Social commentary would be fun. Even if it means major Bush bashing, but really that's a can of worms I don't feel like opening.
I just found out that Title II of the ADA is at risk of being declared unconstitutional. That's just beyond freaky.
The fact that anything qualifies as disabled is infuriating, but it's because of these "so-called" disabled that all our rights are being taken away. I don't care if you have anxiety disorder. Unless it prevents you from leaving your house, you shouldn't be claiming any benefits or any rights that don't belong to you. I can do less than you physically but hell, I don't let that stop me. Thanks to you though, I'm the one getting cheated.
So you're obese. Go on a diet. Stop binging on food and feeling sorry about yourself and go exercise for a change. You may actually fit in an office chair after a few months.
Boo hoo, my employer fired me because I can only work 5 hours a week due to my lazinessImeanantisocialdisorder that keeps meclubbingatnightandunabletowakeupinthemorning. File with EEOC and good luck!
Granted, not everyone abuses the system, and stuff like obesity, anxiety, disorders may be legitimate. Except I've run into people who work the system because they can and not because they need it. It's always the few that ruin it for the many, and I hate that.
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Comments
you're new blog layout is really pretty.
my mother has a disability that medical people don't want to call a disability. she has an auto-immune disease that degrades the muscleoskeletal system and in the winter it's a terrible thing because her joints don't move as well. very painful. anyway, she wants to have a handicap skicker for her car in the winter and the doctors won't give her one because 'she can handle herself just fine living alone.'
last year she slipped on the ice while walking into the grocery store from the parking lot and got a horrible concussion that put her in the hospital. i keep thinking how nice it would have been if she had a parking space closer to the door where the ice is cleared away. i hate seeing her close to a limp in the dead of winter. and she doesn't have health insurance anymore so... i worry.
Posted by: vayleen | January 24, 2003 3:46 PM
ok see, that just doesn't make sense. if it affects her that much then she should be given that consideration. they give it to people with mild heart problems, why not her. gah.
Posted by: yasmin | January 25, 2003 7:23 PM