accessible transportation and an accessible workplace go hand in hand

There are three things that can happen to a human through out his lifespan. Two are uncontrollable. They are your birth and your death. However somewhere along this continuum you may become disabled. Should this happen you will discover that you need adequate help and support to overcome your disability. Should you become disabled, and then you may find that the effects of your disability could be lessened if society did everything possible to help you become self-sufficient again.

Self-sufficiency, not chastising or penalizing, is what a humane society should strive for. To insure that this is possible, then society must insure that both the workplace and public transportation are accessible to all qualified disabled citizens. So long as leaders maintain the status quo then disability will continue to grow. So long as leaders refuse to make accessibility to public transportation and the workplace a top priority then disability will grow unchecked. So long as leaders chastise the disabled for being disabled then disability will continue to grow unchecked.

Shouldn't government primary objective be to help people return to productivity instead of allowing them to be needlessly made disabled? Isn't allowing inaccessibility to public transportation and to the workplace just a political cop out? 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 of the problem in the name of the status quo function to allow people to be made needlessly disabled?

Allowing one to become needlessly disabled could be called the ostrich approach. This approach clings to a status quo that needs changing. How can a person with a disability expect to gain some semblance of independence if their government fails to insure all things are accessible to them? This means public transportation as well as the workplace.

There is an old saying. "Employment is the best form of rehabilitation. " If this is so then why not get the disabled employed instead of spending money to rehabilitate them to disability or dependence upon government aid? Why not take a baby step and make accessibility part of the status quo?"

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