Regardless of the Ability to Pay  | | | |  In US, We the People demand our rights to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Our Constitution establishes a government and defines the roles of the people working in it.
Along the way many seem to have decided that there is no life, liberty or happiness without entitlements. The entitlements are meant to be based on "need", but in demanding entitlements for the needy, haven't we defined what needs are more important than others... but more dangerous... whose needs are more important than others?
We have taxpayer funded programs that provide food, health care, transportation, heating/power/water assistance and all sorts of other things for the "needy". However but don't we all "need" food, health care, transportation, heating/power and water? Sure, some people can afford food better than others, since when do we base Constitutional Rights on the ability to pay?
Where does it say, "Life, Liberty & the pursuit of happiness to those who can't afford them... the rest of you can fend for yourself".
Why are the "needy" entitled to anything not freely available to all in the first place?
I can see why buildings and property open to the public should be made accessible to all, but for all our talk... is it? Wheelchair ramps, braille signs, audible instructions and warnings make access available to the crippled, blind and deaf. Pictographs help the illiterate or foreign laguage speakers, and benches help the elderly or otherwise weakened among us... regardless of the ability to pay.
But even in our quest for equal access, we discriminate pretty openly. People who need glasses don't have any easier time reading without glasses than the blind, illiterate or foreign speakers, yet do we furnish them with glasses?
Those pictographs were meant to help people who can't read, but then we go and color code things, without regard to the "colorblind"... in fact, colorblindness isn't even a conditioned worthy of "equal access". We are not only left to fend for ourselves, but if we cause an accident, it is OUR FAULT.
Our rights are ours, regardless of ability to pay, but apparently some people have more access to those rights than those with the ability to pay.
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| 1.  Adoniah (4166)
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3 years ago
| |  Interesting topic. There have ben some concessions to the colorblind you know. Why do you think all traffic lights are exactly the same? They didn't used to be. They were made the way they are today simply BECAUSE of color blind people. That way they would always know when the light was red. I cannot think of another instance where the lack of ability to distinguish color would cause an accident. I am sorry if I am obtuse. I have even noticed that a lot of stores group clothing by color to make it easier to match items. I think that that is a good idea and very helpful.
You are right about the color coding. They should stick to colors that are clear to color blind folks. That is something that should be changed.
Shalom~Adoniah
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 ParaTed2k (6345)
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3 years ago
| | Most of them are the same, so yeah, we don't have an excuse when they are standard. I've seen the standard ones posted sideways though (both directions) which is just plain UNFAIR! I've also seen where there was only one lightbulb and the red, yellow and green are colored gels that trade places in front of the bulb.
The thing is though, it's not like we see the same color differently every time. The "green" light (for example) is never green to me, but it is always the same color as manilla envelopes or dead grass.
To tell you the truth, I really doesn't bother me that things are color coded. As far as I'm concerned it is my condition to deal with. I would roll my eyes at any serious push to spend billions of dollars making things "colorblind friendly".
I bring it up in the discussion because it does show how selective we are in "equal access regardless of ability to pay", but mostly to bring a little levity into the whole thing ;~D | | | | | | | Modern Window Blinds Unmatched Quality + Selection. Shop: Online, Catalog, or In-Store TheShadeStore.com/WindowBlinds | add comment | | | |
| 2.  spalladino (11857)
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3 years ago
| |  This is true and yes, we have defined what needs are more important than others because no civilized society would willingly allow people to starve or freeze to death, to go without water, to not offer assistance in a crisis. You didn't mention organizations like the Red Cross who respond to those in need regardless of their ability to pay. After every hurricane that's come through Florida help has been there for everyone who needed it and no one asked if you could afford to pay for that tarp to put over what was left of your roof...or the bottles of water and boxes of MREs. If there is a need a caring society responds to that need. The "needy" would face serious crisis without help. I don't believe that anyone should be free to spend years on government assistance. Programs that provide training and job assistance to these people should be as important as the programs that feed them and help with utility costs.
I also don't believe it's discrimination to assist the blind in their efforts to funcion in our society while glasses are not free. Going without glasses is an inconvenience at best and one that cannot compare to blindness.
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| ParaTed2k (6345)
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3 years ago
| | Put on a pair of someone else's glasses for a day and see if it's just an "inconvenience". | | | | | | | blind blind & other products for the blind. www.maxiaids.com | add comment | | | |
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