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I do hear you. I wish the system worked better to support people who are able to still work but need accommodations (for example, why not pay a stipend directly to employers to help them offset the costs of keeping someone working at whatever capacity theyâve got?).
When I broke my arm, I saw a lot of little ways in which I had to pay more (in both time and money) because of the limited mobility. It adds up, and that was just a little and temporary issue. There should be a way to compensate for non-incapacitating disabilities without making it an either/or situation of work-as-if-nothingâs-wrong or else stay-home-forever-like-a-lump.
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Make sure you send the chocolate ones!
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One harbors a certain urge to send large quantities of ribbon candy and wax lips.
If it is a diesel generator, canât we send them tanks of E85 marked as diesel?
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Youâre evolving, sortâa.
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Dear Jesus,
I would like to report a clerical error in Caesarâs renderings unto me; please correct.
Thnx.
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Theoretically thatâs the âreasonable accommodationâ stuff in the ADA.
In practice, it is tricky to pin down all the nominally licit ways of getting rid of undesirables without arduous litigation that they frequently canât afford; and the desire to pay compensation generous enough to make retaining them a net win appears to be absent(plus, if the history of âagricultural price supportsâ is anything to go by, sufficiently generous stipends would probably encourage hoarding of employees with the best delta between actual productivity impairment and classification-based stipend payout, at the expense of those whose particular disabilities happen to be more inconvenient to a given business than the stipend calculations suggest).
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Everything seems to be up in the air at this time?
2016: The year of the Beernuts Airlift.
Ignoring any political ideals here, I keep thinking âthese guys canât be that stupid, can they?â
Maybe they were hoping for some kind of immediate giant-fist-of-the-federal-government comes in and makes them martyrs, maybe they were thinking copy-cats would pop up all over the USA igniting a revolution, maybe they are hoping to eventually start some fire-fight with rangers or the FBI or whoever, and it would make an example for others to follow. . . .
But I get the impression they were only doing an armed protest march, when someone suggested occupying a building, and they just went for it with no planning or projected outcome.
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Take the skinheads bowling.
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Odd they had a generator then.
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What if the larger political ideals are the story?
Thereâs been years of evidence that US traditional energy oligarchs (oiligarchs) wants to revert federally-protected parks to state control. So that each state can more easily sell off strip-mining rights to the highest bidder.
Regardless of the outcome of this standoff, it raises the political profile of any politician that wants to campaign against the current status quo of federally protected lands.
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Good point.
Per an item in this eveningâs Oregon Public Radio news segment, Bundy announced that his group would meet with locals to talk things over and arrange for a peaceful end to the occupation.
Fingers crossed.
NPR also ran a segment about the Bundyâs and their religious weirdness. They think theyâre on an ordained mission to free the land.
Meeehhhhhhh.
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