I love libertarians, always willing to engage in a civilized discussion. Once again, Sara, isn't there some other transgression of the government that is more worthy of your indignation than a minor outlay of public funds to help people with disabilities? I could make you a list if you'd like. Maybe the govt is bending over a little farther backwards to help people with disabilities than an absolute cost benefit analysis would suggest. But, as the dad of a little girl with CP (violins here), I appreciate it, and I suspect that she will have a richer life because of things like ADA and IDEA (which is a similarly contentious, and probably much more expensive, piece of legislation to assure equal access to education for kids with disabilities.) So, all nastiness aside, in good old-fashioned cheek turning for the season, I hope that your opinion is proportionately forceful for other, much less justifiable, expenditures of government money. Also, a basic libertarian fallacy is that, if someone believes that public money should be spent for a cause, then s/he personally should pay a premium for the cause. Not in America, never was, never will be, and not in a democracy, likewise. Eric Siegel [log in to unmask]