U.S. court: currency discriminates against the blind

"Jose" McCain the immigrant anti-christ will provide a bilingual version of the bill in his first 90 days

The estimate for the rework is less that 80k. That is a barging for government work. Estimated taxpayer savings for shrinking smaller denominations is approximately 115 million dollars. You do the math, either way it looks like a deal that also helps out.

john wrote:

DEBIT CARD, problem solved.

good thinking problem would be taken care of

Drunk Against Mad Mothers wrote:

Ever notice drive-up ATMs have Braille print on them? But the money doesn't.
Since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, our paper money has undergone some major changes. We've had bills with large portraits replace the older small portraits.. plastic strips and watermarks embedded into the paper.. color changing inks.. and now the newest greenbacks aren't even green anymore.
The US will continue to change the bills every 8 to 10 years to keep ahead of counterfeiters. Yet the gov't claimed that adding a few Braille bumps on one corner of each bill is an "undue burden"?

A drive up ATM with Braille, who's driving???

We are in the 21st Century, there is another unilateral change that could save the government the cost of retooling our money. Just get rid of paper money!

Brenda wrote:

Give me a break!! When will the madness end?? How have blind folks managed to get by until now? The ones I know fold the money in different ways for different denominations.

Maybe the seeing-eye dogs need better training.

Rhett wrote:

Why do you liberal wackos always interject Bush and homosexuality into any topic.
You're simply nuts.

It's the conservatives who are always bringing up homosexuality. They seem very fixated on it - constantly claiming liberals want everyone to be gay.

I'll give you the Bush references thouugh. He has f*cked up everything so badly, it's hard to get away from thinking about him.

Preston2 wrote:

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Conservative estimate,$100 million to redo our paper currency.
And that's too much to pay for the benefit of too few.
Sice bills are to be redesigned around every 10 years or so, they should save the braille for the next redesign.

Where'd you get the figure of $100 Million to add a few dots to new bills? We're talking about a minor adjustment in the designs they're already working on for the next batch of new bills that they plan to start printing in a decade or so.

That was the point of my post. Since the gov't is going to redesign the bills every 8 to 10 years anyway, was it really such an "undue burden" on them to just add a few bumps in the new designs?

We're not talking about re-printing every single bill in circulation either. You simply introduce the new bills and they'll replace the older ones. No different than what we're already doing with new colored bills replacing older monochrome bills.

People are complaining about how much it'll cost to add a few bumps to something we're ALREADY paying to change, when the real waste of money was by the gov't fighting this in court.

Another politically correct problem created by the left. How did the blind uses money before some idiot thought they were being discriminated against? Wake up America just another excuse to have our government control more of our lives

reality checker wrote:

If the United States had a paper currency design like the Euro, the smaller the bills denomination, the smaller the size. This would make it easy for vision-impaired individuals to tell the denomination, not to mention a clerk at a store not mistaking one bill for another.
The euro also has different colors for the different denominations.

well you certainly checked my reality. Good point./there are so many stupid comments on this blog/

gerri-berri wrote:

Wait....we've been using paper money for HOW LONG and someone just NOW brings this up???
Slow day for the attorneys or something?

Yea , really ....

Tie wrote:

i agree but i watched a man rip off a blind man because he wants money. the blind man asked if the bill was a 5 and the store clerk sayed yes and it was a 20 and the blind guy gave him it. If they do anything they should make those little bumps on bills

So you abetted in the ripping off of a blind man? Shame on you!

Just make the bills in different sizes...Problem solved...Just like the coins...

Robert Gardner Bohemia wrote:

Another politically correct problem created by the left. How did the blind uses money before some idiot thought they were being discriminated against? Wake up America just another excuse to have our government control more of our lives

And how is this created by the left? Give some evidence!

We've been dowm this road before with cars that are too quiet for them to hear them.
Solutions?
Limit their movement to blind alleys and give them talking tin cups.

We are in the 21st Century, there is another unilateral change that could save the government the cost of retooling our money. Just get rid of paper money!
The day this country will get rid of paper money will be the end of free enterprise and capitalism, no paper money is the ultimate control by big brother...I cash my paycheck and spend my cash without having to think that big brother knows how I spend my money, and where and at what time... Call me paranoid, I call it freedom.

The answer... without costing tens of millions to redesign the paper money.

http://www.maxiaids.com/store/prodView.asp...

All it takes is someone you trust who can see to initially mark the bills using this. The drawback is when someone is getting change. But debit cards remove that hang-up.

When speaking of 'The drawback' I forgot to state that the someone getting change was blind and no one they trusted was around.

Drunk Against Mad Mothers wrote:

Ever notice drive-up ATMs have Braille print on them? But the money doesn't.
Since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, our paper money has undergone some major changes. We've had bills with large portraits replace the older small portraits.. plastic strips and watermarks embedded into the paper.. color changing inks.. and now the newest greenbacks aren't even green anymore.
The US will continue to change the bills every 8 to 10 years to keep ahead of counterfeiters. Yet the gov't claimed that adding a few Braille bumps on one corner of each bill is an "undue burden"?

Who gives a sh*t about drive-up ATMs! Blind people shouldn't be driving. And if they are, they don't need braile on their money. And neither do the rest of us.

Guess Who wrote:

<quoted text>Ask native American's how much they have?

Actually, I have. The ones around here are part of tribes that own casinos. Look into it.