Your hotel bill just increased.

Thanks to the Obama administration, we'll all probably being paying more for our hotel rooms beginning in 2013. The Justice Department is requiring all hotels, water parks, and health clubs to install fixed lifts for disabled guests. 

Many facilities with pools purchased or planned to purchase portable lifts. But the nit-picky rule says they can't do that -- it has to be a fixed lift. This involves tearing up the pool deck and hiring a contractor. 

But since Obama hopes to have the support of the hotel industry in the coming election, he's putting off requiring compliance until 2013. Then, as he's previously said, he'll have more flexibility (he can do what he wants). 

Once again, I refer to that wise Vulcan: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

"White House giving hotels until '13 to install pool lifts." The Dallas Morning News; May 27, 2012; p. 4A.