"Tenspot, Helen... it's a word! It means something! Sawbuck, Helen! SAY it! It MEANS something!"
Posted on 11/28/2006 1:35:36 PM PST by SmithL
Edited on 11/28/2006 3:20:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Hi, my name is Bill, I'll be your twenty. Talking currency, get it?
Make the blind learn to tell the difference of thickness of the bills and don't screw with the money.
To hell with the ones that are too lazy to learn or can't.
"Tenspot, Helen... it's a word! It means something! Sawbuck, Helen! SAY it! It MEANS something!"
That being said, all credit card machines need to be changed so that blind people can tell the amount of the charge. Also, all receipts must be changed so that any blind person paying cash can get a receipt to match their purchase. My point being, how far should this go?!
Maybe their should be special accomodations for people that can see the money, but do not know how to count or spend it. Seriously, being blind is not a joke, but how far can things be pushed. I should not even mention these things here--in five years they will become reality.
I'll give you a reason: it will cost too much. Yup, I am a greedy cruel person. I say we shouldn't change the money because it would cost too much.
As a SMALL example: The company I work for owns (by my own approximation) at least 8,000 machines with dollar bill validators. A change in the dollar bill that would make it different enough for a blind person to use would instantly make each of those units obsolete.
To one medium sized company, this feel good law would cost $400 x 8,000. That's 3,200,000 dollars in parts. Now add the cost of actually replacing the units and you are at an EASY 4 MILLION dollars. I guarantee you that there would have to be a large number of layoffs, as the company would have to cut costs to try and survive such a non revenue producing expense.
So, a lot of us would be out of work, a lot of businesses would go bankrupt, but YOU would feel good.
Feel good-ism sure does cause a lot of suffering for others, doesn't it?
Let this b*stard change his own money. Or better yet, just take his $ away since he is so dissing the blind. Obviously he wouldn't want to use it anymore. /s
No, we really *are* special, aren't we? And so I would guess that you agree with this judge that we should be more Eurotwit'sh with our money? Each to his own opinion - we'll see where this goes, if anywhere.
here in Pittsburgh they had to redo all of the sidewalks (when they were being re-done anyway) for wheelchairs. Problem is, it makes it harder for blind people. I've seen people getting confused in various areas. It is hilly here, and hard to tell which way to go. Also more dangerous for the MANY elderly here. There was a lawyer in a wheelchair who sued the city, IIRC.
More idiocy from a Clinton Appointee. And with a Dem Controlled Congress, and Hitlery in '08, the US is all set!
Puke, Barf, Suicide...
Speed limit signs should be printed in Braille for blind drivers.
Only thing missing then would be cartoons on the bills so morons would know what they are..
Hmm...the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate the value of foreign money. Why don't they make one Euro equal to one dollar? It sure would help American tourists in Europe.
Perhaps this will get RFID tages embedded in our currency - and tracked everywhere.
A propos. What about making bills recognizeable to bald people?
You are right. In the Constitution, they actually mention what a dollar is to be vis a vis gold and silver, IIRC. Inflation is an evil created by the Federal Reserve, which then blames employment for it.
Make money out of duct tape, and just stick it on 'em.
That's to go with the braille keypads on the drive-through ATMs.
And in a related headline, "Congress ordered to PASS bills recognizable as intelligent lawmaking..."...don't I WISH.
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