UN promoting global ADA.(Insider Report)(Americans with Disabilities Act)

In 1990, the first President Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a measure that placed literally every millimeter of every business under federal regulatory scrutiny. Eleven years later, President Bush the younger proudly announced an expansion of the ADA, an initiative that would have prompted a full-scale revolt among congressional Republicans had it been proposed under Bill Clinton.

Businesses have been required to spend billions of dollars to accommodate disabled employees; employers are required to make provision for handicaps while at the same time being forbidden by the ADA to inquire about them. The measure was designed to invite hugely expensive litigation, and ADA lawsuits have resulted in novel definitions of the term "disability." For example, after an executive of Coca-Cola Company was fired for drunken behavior at a company function, he filed a lawsuit "because under the ADA alcoholism is a disability," recounts Michael Fumento, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The "disabled" plaintiff was awarded $1 million in lost salary and $6 million in punitive damages. Often derided as the "full employment for trial attorneys act," the ADA ...