(Also from Overlawyered). The Americans with Disabilities act required all municipalities to build wheelchair ramps in their sidewalks and so they all complied, Pennsylvania included.Now the ADA standards have changed, and the states must replace the original ramps with new ones that meet the new standard. Pennsylvania will spend $800 million, I assume the other states will follow suit. If they all spend, on average, just $200 million complying, that’s ten billion bucks.
New York City was recently ordered by the feds to change all its street signs to (or from, who remembers?) capital to lower case letters. That was a $100 million hit. Now they can redo their sidewalk ramps.
When liberals howl that there’s no fat to spare in the federal budget, maybe they should take a look at the regulations we impose, and see if there’s not something in there we could work with.
Talk about stoopid spending: Did you notice NY snuck in another bridge renaming? As if it weren’t bad enough that the Triborough became The RFK, the Queensboro Bridge is now The Ed Koch! What’s next? The Christopher Fountain _________________?
Here’s a video about the font changes. It’s actually a good thing. My old eyes notice the difference.
Not to worry. Just increase taxes on the rich. Besides, all this wasteful spending is creating jobs
EOS – The fix for old eyes is implantable lenses. For the first time in 40 years I need no correction for either reading or driving, as I opted for one long eye and one short eye. I now live a life free of both contacts and glasses. It is absolutely amazing.
Oh look, $800 million of union contracts!
Good book on the subject: Death of Common Sense about how we are being crushed by useless regulation and the bias toward creating new laws with out amending or repealing useless old laws.