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The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

The ADA has disabled the disabled for 30 years – Ep 596

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Peter Schiff

Business News, Business, Investing, News, Politics

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The ADA further disables the disabled.
American Samoa was crippled by the Fare Wage Act.
Discrimination laws create more discrimination.
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0:00.0

The Peter Schiff Show.

0:07.0

Thirty years ago today on July 26th, 1990, George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Americans

0:21.5

with Disabilities Act, otherwise known as the ADA into law.

0:27.8

And like all bad laws, this law was conceived at least in theory with good intentions.

0:35.9

And you know what they say about the road to hell, right?

0:39.0

It's paved with good intentions.

0:41.9

And there's probably no better example than paving a road to hell than the Americans

0:47.3

with Disability Act.

0:49.0

The motivation supposedly for the act was to make it easier for people who had work limiting

0:57.3

disabilities to get a job.

1:00.2

Right?

1:01.2

After all, if people are not working because of a disability, but if there is some potential

1:07.5

accommodation that employers could make that might enable these otherwise non-working, disabled

1:16.2

individuals to get into the workforce, then they can improve their lot in life.

1:20.3

They can get the benefits of employment.

1:22.9

And the economy would get the benefits of their efforts and their productivity.

1:28.2

And of course, you know, there's always a movement on the left to grant special privileges

1:36.2

to people under the guise of civil rights.

1:39.0

And here is another group of entitled Americans, right?

1:44.1

Americans with Disabilities.

1:45.8

Now they cannot be discriminated against.

1:48.3

They must be treated the same as everybody else.

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