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A tiny old church that I'm a friend of (Ohio, US) removed their bare-minimum stair lift chair - originally installed to help ill or infirm members up & down 6 s
by bell-cot 2y ago
A tiny old church that I'm a friend of (Ohio, US) removed their bare-minimum stair lift chair - originally installed to help ill or infirm members up & down 6 steps - because the breakdowns and repairs and inspections and licensing got to be Just Too Much.
Neither the old members trying to manage those steps sans chair, nor them remaining housebound and isolated on Sundays, are better "promote the general welfare" outcomes. But neither the industry nor state regulators seemed to care about anything beyond their own revenue streams.
- kylebenzle 2y agoYes and that sounds like par for the course. The US, and Ohio in particular, is being taken over by and destroyed by the highest bidder. Ohio State University's hospital and modernization was bought and paid for by Jeffery Epstein's best friend and closest associate for over 10 years and we just pretend it didn't happen. They sold a farm field down the street to my new home to Amazon and it's been a dust cloud all summer. Our "family court" has been sold off or coopted by the Ohio Bar Association who now runs the courts like a personal income stream. Despite the Federal government telling us not to Ohio still proudly has dozens of private prisons and coincidentally one of the highest incarceration rates. We still have a debtors prison system for people late on child support payments but at the same time they refuse to enforce parental rights. They just sold off oil drilling/fracking rights to all of our state parks...