Yesterday on the Peter Schiff Show I made brief mention of the fate of Ford’s Hamburgers in Sacramento, California. The last straw that forced the owner to close down was a lawsuit demanding that his counters be made compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a piece of legislation signed by George H.W. Bush (remember him, from the party of small government?). The counters were too high. Jerry Sylvia, a longtime customer and disabled from the waist down, said of the lawsuit: “It’s all a bunch of crap. They were the first ones to help you. They’d bring it out to my van when it was ready.”

These lawsuits, Sylvia said, are likely to incite hostility toward the disabled. “I feel like people are looking at me, ‘Uh-oh, here comes another handicapped person, what do they want?’ That’s my biggest fear.”

A gentleman who needs to remain anonymous heard the segment yesterday and wrote to share his own horror story: