Please provide the details if you are going to make an absolute statement.
"... suck it up and stop whining...."
You folks that can't defend your own assertions always have to resort to describing other's contentions as whining, don't you?
This country's founding documents give every citizen the guarantee of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is not the obligation of everyone else to provide it for them so that each citizen can experience their own little utopia.
How about this: let the blind use a debit card or credit card? How about this: if there is enough of a market in the needs of the blind, some creative genius somewhere in the world would be developing products to fill that need. Isn't that a beautiful concept?
You said “It will take billions to replace these”
He said it wouldn’t.
Why is he the only one who has to provide details for his undocumented assertions? Why not both of you provide some information backing up your competing claims?
More then 30 countries have money that includes raised markings which distinguish the denominations. Our current bills have raised areas as part of the anti-counterfeit processing.
BTW, the National Federation for the Blind used to be opposed to “specially marked money” because they felt it sent the wrong message that blind people needed special help. I don’t know if that is still their position.
And it could be that with the special variations in our bills these days, a blind person could learn to distinguish the bills.
There are machines that read bills that are pretty expensive. There are also “braille markers” sold that blind people can use to mark the money they have. It doesn’t help them verify they aren’t being cheated by an incompetent cashier, but once they know what a bill is in their hand, they can mark it with the machine.
If it was an update based on the next design of plates, adding raised marks would be a negligible additional cost to the bills. This would certainly be easier than doing different size bills.
BTW, the ACB (American Council for the Blind) I think support this lawsuit. And I think the National Federation for the Blind still opposes it, but I’m not sure.