Two words:
Re Tarded.
I know a blind woman who can tell the difference in bills simply by touch. Don’t ask me how, but she has no problems at all.
If you pass a law requiring “reasonable accomadation”, you better practice reasonable accomodation. And if you think something would be unreasonable, you better be able to make that case to a judge.
In this case, the government appears to have failed to show how it would be too hard or too unreasonable to make our money easier for blind people.
If they don’t like it, congress can change the law.
What ignorant sluts.
So, I guess the bigger denominations discriminate against poor people?
A major problem with the USA today: we try to measure our success by what "other countries" do...so many, including Supreme Court justices, want us to COPY other nations--a losing proposition for liberty.
So up until this point no blind person in the USA could buy anything with paper money? I highly doubt that.
Besides... there’s always plastic.
Well, they are already putting bigger numbers on the back. Just look at how big the 5 is on recent $5 bills. Maybe as a reasonable accommodation the government could also distribute metal disks as money which can be told apart by their size and edge ridges.
I'm just waiting for an ADA lawsuit against newspapers for discriminating against the blind.
I guess it will all have to be re-printed in braille?
Newspapers, magazines, billboards, pedestrian signals, voting booths etc. discriminate against the blind. I guess its time to redesign the whole country to give everybody that warm-fuzzy feeling.
So, if many other countries have already explained why this would be an unreasonable burden, then it shouldn't be difficult for the U.S. to do so as well.
Should we all blind ourselves to level the proverbial playing field?
Is there someway we can have a class action lawsuit, take the Government to court, prove it’s an unreasonable burden to people, and make it dissolve itself?
And it was only the sighted people who complained about the dollar coins.. Go figure.
“Paper money discriminates against blind.”
Paper money discriminates against the poor.
I think that judges have nothing else to do than to create havoc in this nation.
Oh, for God’s sake! Aren’t there a few more important issues than this?
“Paper” money discriminates against us all.................
And radio discriminates against the deaf. Radio must now provide written text for the deaf. Everything that the announcer says must be printed out and come out of the radio - we can’t discriminate!
And cars discriminate against the blind. Cars must now be driveable by the blind, with Braille markings on the shift and steering wheel.
Here’s one to think of. Putting Braille markings on paper money will very rapidly be followed by criminals pressing those markings out of the money and creating NEW Braille markings with the WRONG denomination. Thus the blind will be defrauded.