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Big Don wrote:
> 
> Some ADA LOOT_OctoPromoter sent Big Don the following:
> > [...]
> >Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to perform
> >a job as well as an employee without a disability.
> >
> >Fact: Over two-thirds of the 4,000 participants in Pizza Hut, Inc.'s "Jobs
> >Plus Program" are persons with mental retardation. The current turnover
> >rate among these employees with disabilities is a modest 20% compared to
> >the 150% turnover rate of employees without disabilities. This means a
> >drop in recruitment and training costs.
> 
> Question:  Does Pizza Hut charge for the *drool* as an "extra topping"?

Question - have you been a troll for long? I'd guess not - you seem to be too
self-impressed with your wit - which hardly qualifies as such - to be taking
it seriously.

You do seem to fail to take into account that there are different degrees of
mental retardation. 

Most poeple who are mentally retarded are very self-conscious about their
appearances and take great pains to never drool, at least not where anyone can
see them and assuredly not on food.

> 
> The Bell Curve has an outstanding discussion of why you don't want dumb
> employees (it's in the non-controversial first-half of the book which
> few of the reviewers read because it deals only with white people).

You know, it's extremely difficult to find someone too dumb to work making
pizzas or bussing tables. It's essential work, that someone has to do. Why not
let people who are hard workers have a job that they can do, and can do well,
and thus they can support themselves instead of being supported by the
taxpayer.

It makes a lot more sense to move disabled persons towards employability than
to waste taxpayer resources, especially in today's robust, labor-shortaged
[sic] economy.

> See, in particular, Chapter 3, "Economic Pressure to Partition" which
> discusses the way people with different IQs end up in different jobs.
> (pg 78-79).

In a word, "duh" - it takes a rocket-scientist to do rocket-science. But the
vast majority of skilled work (outside of artisanship) is rapidly becoming
more-effectively done by robots and numerical-control machine-tools; and
outside of the service economy and value-added-service economies, almost all
labor demands nowhere near the full intellectual resources of the persons so
employed.

Disabled persons categorically deserve the opportunity to do whatever work
they're capable-of, in a workplace free (as possible, given the fact that
people like you seem to abound) of workplace discrimination. Any "reasonable
accomodation" that can be made to help such people off of public assistance
and into self-reliance is an accomodation that's not only reasonable, but
sensible.

Speaking as a disabled person, who has had _ample_ cause and opportunity to
use the ADA, but who never has, I'd like to ask you to reconsider your
quite-inhumane bashing of those less-fortunate than yourself.

By the way, in case you're wondering what my disability is, please see
something that I did as a public service, free-of-charge and which I pay to
keep mounted to the Web - 

http://www.clark.net/pub/klaatu/ada_ota.html

> 
> Big Don
> No OctoLawyer-enriching LOOT ADA ~!!~

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