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Rather interesting, considering houses are currently exempt from the strictures of the ADA.

There are good reasons for not having a zero-step outside door: it keeps insects out of your home.

"Builds in freedom"? How Orwellian!

The same applies for 'green issues' intruding on personal space - such as some cities (like Austin for example) studying measures to make it illegal to sell your home without first installing low-flush toilets and energy efficient appliances.

Another thing: wheelchair accessible bathrooms are so large that they significantly impact both home layout and available living space. They're a waste of space and they're ugly to boot.

Low-flush toilets are an abomination.

What about disabilities that are not related to wheelchair use? Shouldn't builder's accommodate every possible disability, no matter how rare, into construction to be totally fair and equal? I'll wait for Rep Schakowsky to come up with a list for all possible disabilities so that we can make the correct adjustments.

What about conflicting disabilities? For example a significantly shorter than average person would have a harder time using a wheelchair accessible toilet than an ordinary one.

My home is in a coastal plain & elevated 11 feet by law. I'll be d****med if these yahoos can make me put in an elevator because "someday" somebody might need one.

It'd be hilarious if someone showed up at this politician's house and complained that it wasn't handicapped-friendly.

Someone should ask these wackos the obvious question: what if I don't want handicapped people visiting me? Don't I have the right to say who can enter my house?

It is required to allow the handicapped the right to burglarize your home.

Is this craze likely to extend to national parks (I know it does to an extent)? As zealots are not driven by logic, is it possible that they might demand equal access for the Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings (where one has to descend and ascend ladders to visit the ruins)?

Or Carlsbad Caverns? You leave the caverns by way of an elevator after you walk downhill to get in. As we are addressing Moonbats here, this is within the realm of what might be demanded by an "activist" with an opportunistic attorney.

And if equal access can't be delivered, might they just bar all visitors in the name of "Fairness"?

I seem to recall in Atlanta, the tower used for the Olympic flame was later closed to tourists (after the Olympics) because equal access to the handicapped was not available, i.e., it was too expensive to add an elevator.

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The good news in socialist England is that going to the hospital is free. The bad news is that once you check in, they won't give you food.There are currently 30,000 patients starving to death in UK hospitals.

These nanny-state, totalitarian nitwits will make my home handicapped-accessible when they pry the deed from my cold, dead fingers. And, by the way, who the heck doesn't think that decent people who anticipate handicapped visitors will do what they can to accommodate them??? Just leave the rest of us alone, you bastards!

My wife is disabled, and while not totally confined to a wheel chair, must use one at times. She would NEVER want our home to be set up like a hospital ward.

This is NOT ABOUT HANDICAPPED PEOPLE, this is the first step in the abolition of private property. You MUST ACCOMMODATE "X" because WE SAY SO. "X" can be very fluid. As someone pointed out, not all handicaps require a wheel chair. What's next, a "blind friendly" mandate? Hearing impaired mandate? How about a mandate for allergy sufferers or people with depression? YOU MUST PAINT YOUR HOUSE IN CHEERFUL COLORS OR DEPRESSED PEOPLE WILL FEEL WORSE!

Why is one disability more important than any other? (Just like "why is it OK to break immigration laws "because they're good people", but I can't break income tax laws, even though I'M a "good person"?).

The answers are easy of course. It's NOT ABOUT HANDICAPPED PEOPLE. It's government intrusion into every aspect of your life, taking away your fundamental private property rights and personal freedom.

DON'T TREAD ON ME!

One of the main issues in communism is the removal of citizens' rights to own their own property. The first step in achieving this goal is to dictate what a person can do with their privately owned home.

How can you EVER consider yourself an owner of a piece of Gaia?

Why... that would be like considering yourself a pet OWNER rather than guardian.

I'm appalled! APPALLED I tell you!

I am a blind, deaf, quadreplegic, extremely retarded, allergic to plastic, diabetic incontinent.

Based on the rights of the 0.000000001% of the world population that is also like me, I demand that all homes, offices and public areas be refitted with wide doors, no sharp edges, no steps, no small detachable objects, no plastics, nonslip floors in case I pee uncontrollably on them, no sugar or starch products anywhere, and most of all - no abled bodied people who might make me feel emotionally injured.

And if you are an OBESE "blind, deaf, quadreplegic, extremely retarded, allergic to plastic," AND wood and glass, cotton, and peanut butter?

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Jimbo and BURNING, you've opened my eyes. The mere fact that I exist is an affront to people who DON'T exist. I would kill myself, except that might infringe on the rights of dead people.

I'm not planning on moving, but IF I ever sold this place you'd better believe I wouldn't sell without installing low-flush toilets. I want to take my good ones with me.

What the heck is this? With the whole world getting older, you'll be glad you have these simple features when you (1) go to sell your house, or (2) try to continue living there when your own needs require them.