Posted on 12/12/2006 4:36:58 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BUMP
What will the headline on this be?
BUSH IS AGAINST BLIND PEOPLE??
BUSH ATTACKS PLAN TO HELP THE BLIND???
That seems to overstate the case. A slight modification to existing bills woulddo the trick.
In Canada the bills are stamped with a braile symbol causinbg slight bumps that can be 'read'. Seems easy enough.
Currency is regularly redesigned about every 7 years anyway. Sounds like a couple of those changes could be easily adopted (although, I hate the idea of the bills being different sizes, I think that one will never happen.)
Also, most currency is already color coded. It is amazing the number of newspaper articles I have seen about this that claim that all American currency is the same color.
Sounds like the Supreme Robed One might be heavily into recreational drugs. People have been using money for hundreds of years. This is the first time the blind people decided to bitch about it. The Supreme Robed One needs to get himself a REAL JOB and a life!
I just had a counterfeiting idea...
And I bet I'm not the only one.
I'm blind and I have no fingers. I want my dollars to talk to me.
I would question that. Modification of current design, to add impacted raised dots, would not be that expensive. Now if we had to remove all old currency and replace it with new, that is another thing.
Huh? All American currency is the same from denomination to denomination within each series. Where does the color variation come in?
I'm thinking there is a market to be made by creating a stamping machine that can be sold to banks so they can imprint the currency with braille bumps to give out to blind clients to use. The US Treasury won't have to spend an extra dime and some smart bank can corner the market on blind customers! And if this blind lawyer is right and suddenly half of america is going blind, then some bank is going to get richer than hell! A free market solution will beat the hell out anything the Treasury comes up with and for trillions less.
You're right -- adding the dots wouldn't cost much, if it's phased in. I meant cheaper than recalling all current notes.
Tomorrow we will hear of a "judge" ruling that our driving laws need to be changed to allow blind people to drive. I used to laugh at this stuff.
Great idea!
This has to be Greenspan's fault.
In college, I lent a blind fellow student $20 at a bar one night (actually it was a $10 bill but he didn't know the difference). The bastard never paid me back.
They want to be able to differentiate denominations by color (e.g. orange for tens, green for twenties, blue and red for fifties.)
When did the government restart to issue paper currency? All the paper money (bank notes) presently in use is issued by the Federal Reserve System of banks, not the government, although the gov. prints the paper for the banks.
Indeed they do, as they are presently all the same. I thought you said they were already different.
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