Treasury ordered to make bills recognizable to blind people

USA Today & AP ^ | 11/28/2006

[SmithL]

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[Mr. Brightside]

Does the judge make his personal checks recognizable to the blind?

[My2Cents]

...would not have worked for Helen Keller....

Back to the drawing board.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

The solution would be to repeal the ADA. The judge is applying the law as written to the facts presented. The ADA requires the government to make accommodations for people with disabilities. The Judge is correct that blind people are unable to distinguish between American paper bills of different denominations.As such the ADA requires the government to alter our money.

[higgmeister]

I'm still working on Jefferson, Hamilton and Franklin.

For Hamilton, "Pack up your troubles" (in you old kit bag and smile brother smile)

[RightOnline]

"Maybe the Bureau of Printing and Engraving should embed a microchip so that the Presidents and other famous people on money could fart a distinctive tune."

I think you're seriously onto something........but in what key? This judge will bitch that the deaf can't......well................back to the drawing board.

[L98Fiero]

"Those spots have just become perks for growing old, having no principles, and being a whiner with a wimpy doctor."

And they STILL can't fill the spaces. Dead on, though. My friend's dad was given a handicapped sticker when he went to get his license plate once, just because he was a a senior citizen.

[EternalVigilance]

This judge just should have legislated sight for the blind and gotten it over with...

[paulat]

Back to the drawing board.

Vibrating money...probably the only solution...oh, wait...there's the "boy in the bubble."

[Political Junkie Too]

For Jefferson, Revolution by The Beatles.

-PJ

[Last Laugh]

How much money has been spent to make places "handicapped capable" so they can welcome their one wheel-chair bound customer a year.

And government offices as well. They use my tax dollars to make ME walk in the rain and snow. Geez!

[Smile-n-Win]

Seems to me that the judge has been accepting his pay in this "illegal" money for years. Should we impeach him for knowingly violating the ADA?

Absolutely. The rules are the rules! (And since he's the only one who knowingly violated it, no one else should suffer any negative consequences!)

[higgmeister]

I like your's much better than mine!

[RightOnline]

"Still working on Jefferson."

"Love Child" by the Supremes?

[Stultis]

Still working on Jefferson.

Theme from the "Jeffersons (Movin' on Up.)"

How about that theme song from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? In recognition of the demonination, of course, not Jefferson. (Not that there would be anything wrong with that.)

[My2Cents]

To paraphrase the guy on the 20, "The honorable judge has rendered his decision; now let him enforce it."

[GretchenM]

I don't care what the judge's background is, this is an eminently sensible ruling. The blind should be able to know they're not getting cheated or jerked around. It will also give them much more mobility and ability to do things on their own. Can't believe this hasn't come up before.

[pogo101]

Darn! Beat me to the Brown Sugar line!

[Beagle8U]

OOPS...Better yet, every blind person can buy a portable scanner that will read their personal cash and sound out..."This is a five" or whatever.

It should be cheap and easy to build them today with the technology in puters and scanners we have.

No bigger than a cellphone.