"Tenspot, Helen... it's a word. It means something! Sawbuck, Helen! SAY it! It MEANS something!"
Posted on 11/28/2006 6:43:14 PM PST by Elyse
WASHINGTON — American paper money represents an unfair impediment to the blind, and the Treasury Department must come up with new U.S. currency to help the visually impaired use cash, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson said keeping all U.S. currency the same size and texture violates the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in government programs.
"Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations," Robertson wrote in his ruling. "More than 100 of the other issuers vary their bills in size according to denomination, and every other issuer includes at least some features that help the visually impaired."
Day Al-Mohamed, director of advocacy and government affairs at the American Council of the Blind, said that most of the world's currency is distinguished by color, size, perforations or tactile symbols. The Euro, for instance, can be determined by the length of the bill — the higher the denomination the longer the bill.
"Saudi Arabia has money that varies in size based on denomination," she said. "If so many other countries can do it, why not the greatest country in the world?"
"It's exciting from our perspective. It's an area that doesn't get a lot of attention. I give ACB a lot of credit for hanging in there," said Andrew Imperato, president and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities. "Hopefully it's just going to make blind people able to live more independently."
But John Paré, director of public relations for the National Federation of the Blind, the nation's largest organization representing blind people, said identifying the money is hardly the most difficult obstacle for the blind to overcome."
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(And I note that there hasn't been a significant scientific contribution from the "islamic world" in 1100 years)
I'm really glad the drive up atm is in braile.
Well, cheating the blind is more reprehensible than cheating somebody who could at least see the cheat.
This is the same Judge that resigned from the FISA court.
And they say Doctors have a God complex.
Already posted and in the breaking news section:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1745375/posts
Please explain what difference would the color of the money make to a blind person Judgie?
Sorry, I did a search before I posted it.
"Tenspot, Helen... it's a word. It means something! Sawbuck, Helen! SAY it! It MEANS something!"
To the judge:
Oh yeah? Enforce it.
Why not? How about the push for Ebonics, Spanish, broken English, etc.?
I know! The easy solution, since everything and everyone has to be fair and equal, is to make us ALL blind!
We could all have a leg amptutated too, so we can all be in wheelchairs. Great - now I can use the handicapped spaces.
Does this idiot know that our money is not printed by the government? Probably not.
It is printed by the Federal Reserve, not a part of our government.
I think ALL of our money should be different colors. That will surely help the blind.
What's next? Braille computer monitors? The madness continues...
The Federal Government has been complaining for years about how expensive it is to print paper money.I'm sure this brilliant ruling is going to increase the cost 10 times more then it is already !!!
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