Leaders should strive to help the disabled.

I received an e-mail from a friend of mine who is involved with the UN. The leaders of this great international organization were debating on how to best help the disabled. Unfortunately as I read this e-mail it became apparent, to me, that those involved in this debate were unsure exactly how to reintegrate the disabled back into their society. On most issues they sounded like leaders from my country. Some of these leaders are under the assumption that the mere act of helping a qualified disabled person find employment is tantamount to strapping the small business owner with another quota system.

Apparently these good intentioned leaders would rather strap my countries citizens with run away disability than to do something positive to change the status quo. By runaway disability, I mean the unchecked rise of disability; such a rise may be attributed to the many artificial barriers, which may prevent us from gaining employment for which we are qualified.

Here are three such barriers which work against us when it comes to employment. They are the following accessible :< B> transportation, accessible housing and an accessible workplace. If any one of these three are missing then their absence may prevent us from reaching the desired goal of self-sufficiency.

Self-sufficiency, not chastising or penalizing, is what a humane society should strive for. To insure that this is possible, then society and her leaders must insure that the workplace, public transportation, and affordable housing are all accessible to the disabled who are capable of living, working and functioning on their own. So long as leaders maintain the status and allow these three to be inaccessible then disability will continue to grow. So long as leaders refuse to make accessibility to public transportation to the workplace and to housing a priority then disability will continue to grow unchecked.

Isn't government's primary objective supposed to be to protect the right s of all their citizens? However it appears that this may not apply to the qualified disabled because these same leaders allow inaccessibility to transportation, housing, and the workplace to remain part of an unchanging status quo. Shouldn't one of government's primary objectives be to help all their citizens return to work after they have overcome some type of catastrophic disabling occurrence/

Isn't adhering to artificial barriers like inaccessibility to public transportation, to the workplace and to housing a political cop out designed to perpetuate the status quo? Isn't this political cop out just another way for politicians skirt the real issues and place the blame on the shoulders of the disabled? Doesn't this skirting, in the name of the status quo, function to allow an otherwise qualified disabled to be made needlessly disabled?

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