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Summary: Simple Views and Inane Conclusions
Review: I always thought the Americans with Disabilities Act was a good thing. I knew nothing about it, but surely it was there to help the disabled, right? This author, Greg Perry, opened my eyes (I didn't even know I was sight-challenged before this!). The people behind the ADA (mostly lawyers and bureaucrats) make money by turning productive citizens who may have physical challenges into victims - these people obviously don't want to be victims! And the ADA does the very opposite of its original intent - it INCREASES discrimination against the handicapped! I wouldn't have thought a book about this subject could be enjoyable, humorous on almost every page, and so stunning in how I, an able-bodied man, am affected by this disaster called the ADA.
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Summary: The ADA Harms the Disabled
Review: Once the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, business began seeing the disabled as potential lawsuits. Greg Perry explains why in Disabling America.Perry stresses that if he wanted to harm the handicapped, the first thing he would do is go to Washington and fight to strengthen the ADA. **Here is the primary reason that Disabling America reveals the problems with the government's (and ADA activists' and pundits') coerced government attempt to legislate compassion: Perry teaches that he doesn't want to do business with someone who doesn't want to do business with him. If Store A wants to make itself accessible for Perry's business, Perry wants to do business with Store A. But if Store B doesn't want to become accessible, for whatever reason, Perry sees little reason to want to patronize that Store B. BUT when the government puts a gun to a store owner's head and says YOU WILL spend up to $100,000 to change every fixture, door width, aisle width, faucet, driveway, counter, etc., the truly handicapped are immediately viewed as coercion machines used by the government to force these costly and sometimes bankrupting changes. Would any handicapped person with decency want to force their neighbor to spend $20,000 to make their house accessible so that handicapped person could visit? (If you listen to ADA supporters, you might begin to wonder...) Yet, forcing our neighbors to spend many dollars to change their business doesn't seem to pose a moral problem for ADA activists. It's a shame because they care more about supporting the ADA law itself than helping to promote true respect and compassion for the handicapped. The handicapped are not victims. They are to be admired for overcoming adversity.
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Summary: Clarified Thinking?
Review: The author of "My Thinking is Clarified about Many Things" accused me of name calling and failing to provide a substantive critique of Perry's book. She is wrong on both counts. The limited space available, 1,000 words or less, hardly provides the appropriate venue for any substantive critique. As to name calling, I was very tempted to call Perry a few choice names but refused to do so. Rather I pointed people in the direction of another text, one far superior Perry's right-wing attack on disability rights. It seems to me the appeal of Perry's book by those who provided it with a rave review is that it is easy to read and funny. In this they are correct, it is a simple book. It is a funny book. It is also dead wrong. Once again I implore people to either read Mary Johnson's book Make Them Go Away or the more sober account of the ADA No Pity written by Joseph Shapiro. These books will not make you laugh--well then again they might for if you read them you will realize Perry's book is a bad joke.
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Summary: Please read this important book - Don't be Disabled!
Review: The government seems to want to pigeon-hole everybody. The result is a discrimination against the disabled and more jobs and power for attorneys and government workers. The end result is depravity. Have you ever stopped to think how the Americans with Disabilities Act has HURT the disabled? I never had although I had my suspicions after teaching in the government schools for 2 years (before I escaped!). Not only does this book expose the seriousness of the planned destruction of the disabled in America, it does so with FAR more humor and funny stories than I ever expected. So I came away with 2 things: 1. I learned a tremedous amount about a subject I knew very little about.
2. I had a lot of fun reading. I searched Amazon.com and it appears that this author has written a bunch of computer books but not any books on politics or policy until this one. I hope and pray that he keeps writing in this light. It's so much more important for our future that he keeps exposing these kinds of dangers than teaching about computers. If I could give this book 10 stars, I'd do so.
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Summary: The ADA Harms the Disabled
Review: This book clarifies our thinking on how the government's attempt to do something is nothing short of another power-grab in a place where they have no business. Just wait until you read what Perry says about how the Amiericans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects people who smell bad!!! You will be incensed when you see how your money is being spent and when you see how the government destroys handicapped people. As Walter Olsen makes clear, this law was NOT founded on good intentions.
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Summary: I first heard the author on Larry Elder's Show
Review: When I heard this author speak, I was blown away. Here was a handicapped man saying all the things many of us were too afraid to speak out about: the Americans with Disabilities Act. Not only was he well-spoken but he was funny also. Wit and wisdom do not always go together but they do here. I was not disappointed when I read this book. It's as though he was sitting right there reading it to me. And the ADA.. well, he says it is evil. I think he is too kind about it! It's worse! PLEASE read this book if you care about the freedoms in your own home because the ADA is coming to your home shortly. They won't be happy until half our driveways are plastered with that wheelchair sign all over the place!
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Summary: My Thinking is Clarified About Many Things
Review: When I saw a review below written by someone who could only name call instead of providing any substanative critique, I suspected this book was probably very Good, Insightful, and Truthful. After reading Disabling America, my suspicions were confirmed. This book is a must-read, ESPECIALLY if you are not disabled. *But what REALLY surprised me was the constant HUMOR in a book that most people might think would be dry. The text was enjoyable and to make that happen, the author has to be extremely skilled. Greg Perry shows how the government fosters discrimination against the disabled. He does this with precision. But he also exposes problems with many of the Left's sacred cows. I read a lot of liberal AND conservative titles. I prefer the conservative ones that tell truth. Perry does this better than ANYbody I've read since Walter Williams.
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