[GretchenM]

Hi R,

A juducial decision may not be the best way to put this change into practice but I stand by my post in all other respects.

I was born blind, almost had to go to a school for the blind, am still legally blind without glasses, and I cannot *see* one single reason that paper money should be off limits and unusable by blind people. If there were EVER an accommodation that could and should be made for a disability, this is it. Phasing it in is the only way that makes sense to me, but that's all right, just so long as it is done.

[burzum]

I agree with you. I don't think this is a Constitutional action because as far as I can tell the Congress could make clamshells our national currency if they wanted.

The Congress shall have Power To ...

...
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

Yet it is certainly not a bad idea to help make the dollar accessible to the blind. It is common sense. I used to go to a shop at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard where people operated by the honor system with their purchases and the amount of money they gave to a blind cashier. Embossing the money or some other modification would have made his life a lot easier.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I'm with you on this one.