If you wonder why many business people are walking away from business today, look no further than the case in which a trucking company has been told it must employ alcoholics to drive its trucks, but the company is also responsible if one of them gets drunk and has an accident.
This is the Catch-22 that the federal government has thrust upon Old Dominion Freight Line. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Old Dominion violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it removed a trucker from a driving position after management found out he had a drinking problem, so the EEOC has sued the company. Why would anyone stay in the trucking business with that sort of liability?
You might remember the story I had not long ago about Ronnie Bryant, the coal mine operator who announced at a public environmental meeting that he was backing out of plans to open a coal mine. In the comments underneath that story, there were multiple other people who said they had either gotten out of business for similar reasons or who were in the process of getting out. Business people are tired of being handed impossible regulations and contradictory rules. They’re tired of being treated like borderline criminals or suspect at best.
There’s hatred, evil and injustice, but this is the ‘real’ America, too
More dependence ahead now that half of households get U.S. checks
Some people hate their enemies so badly that fairness doesn’t matter
Why does the mainstream ignore those whose predictions were right?
Want to start a ‘free city’? Check out the guidelines to see if you qualify
I’m looking at myself in mirror and asking difficult questions
Why are we uncomfortable when other people aren’t much like us?
In a sane world, everyone would think and act exactly the way I do
Shocker? If you give folks incentive not to work, many stop working