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"Opps. They did it again.
Yesterday, December 4th, after loosing a Presidential election in good part because they pissed off many of 31.8 million Hispanics (2010 U.S. Census), the Republican party embraced the opportunity to piss off another 38 to 57 million Americans, killing ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (based upon the Americans with Disabilities Act) in the U.S. Senate by denying the necessary 2/3 vote, 38 to 61. According to the 2010 Census (www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p70-131.pdf), about 56.7 million Americans of all ages (6 and older) have disabilities of all kinds, of which 38.3 million are severe.
The U.S. officials who worked on setting up the treaty to look like the ADA got a provision modified to specify that disability would be according to a country’s legal definitions.
(see http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/12/04/1279921/senate-republicans-vote-down-international-disabilities-treaty/?mobile=nc;
So it would have done no more in the U.S. than ratify the ADA, which the Supreme Court of the United States has significantly watered down from its original intent.
Well that’s another way to write off the senior vote. Disabilities increase with age, to 51.8 percent of all 65 and older, with 36.8 percent severely disabled. The way the Republicans in the U.S. Senate behaved, you’d think the Americans with Disabilities Act has something to do with Sharia law. "
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