Ron on Disabilities

The Americans With Disabilities Act is now ten years old, but it has only just begun to correct the fears that have kept people with disabilities in isolation throughout history. "Everyone knows a good Helen Keller joke," quipped Ron at Memorial Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. Disabled people are still too often refused access to health care, transportation, school, housing, and jobs. Ron believes that all Americans should have the opportunity to learn and develop skills, make macaroni pictures with glue and paper, choose where to live, and participate in community life. Russell, a man with no arms and no legs, told us he believed in Ron's sincerity as he rolled in a pile of leaves in his native Maine. Ron's initiative, called "Handi-Man", would create a program utilizing $1.1 billion over 5 years to expand access to assistive technology, to further integrate disabled Americans into the workforce, and to remove community barriers/stigmas. Ron has also devised a scheme to bring more Americans with disabilities into the federal workforce. With such a program, our U.S. Congress would double its number of members with mental handicaps (bringing the total to 346). While disabled Americans have their place in society, Ron would like to reduce their powerful lobbying voice currently in place in Washington, D.C. By curbing the power of the Disabled Republicans from Ohio and Oklahoma Lobby (DROOL), Ron thinks government would lose excess baggage that hinders its performance. "I don't think the American public needs 'a colostomy bag on every seat'," said Ron, mocking a DROOL slogan. "DROOL is very exclusive in its policies," continued Ron in Des Moines. "What about my endeavor to put the blind behind the wheel? Or do away with the Special Olympics so they don't exclude the able-bodied?" Ron is also in favor of increased parole hearings for Charles Manson and the "Rainbow Wig" guy.

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