[Blindtlk] National Federation of the Blind CommentsonFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency

[Brian Miller]

What's more, in Europe, most of the regularly handled low denomination
amounts are in coin only.  Not only are coins easier to distinguish, but
they circulate much longer and save the treasury millions in printing costs.

A $1 bill lasts months, whereas a coin could circulate for years.

Brian Miller

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Campbell" <batescampbell at charter.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] National Federation of the Blind
CommentsonFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency


> Hello folks,
>
> Why can't the U.S. Treasury simply follow the lead of the Europeans when
> designing our paper currency?
> Euros are different sizes, depending on the amount of the bills. For
> instance, a 20 Euro note is larger than a 5 euro note.
> I have no trouble distinguishing my money when I'm traveling,and it's very
> helpful when there are no people around who speak English.
>
> LIz
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Wheeler" <awheeler at neb.rr.com>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] National Federation of the Blind Comments
> onFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
>
>
> All this really proves is why the blind in our country aren't as widely
> accepted (and employed) as (for example) the deaf are.  We have two
> differing consumer groups for blindness, and they will never be unified.
On
> the other hand, there isn't an American Council of the Deaf at the throats
> of the National Federation of the Deaf and vice versa.  I know it isn't
even
> remotely reality to hope/wish for the NFB and ACB to come together, I'm
just
> musing to myself that people see that lack of unity and wonder why average
> people in society need so much educating about blindness even now in the
> 21st century?  If the impossible were to happen, and the NFB/ACB were to
> become one cohesive unit, actually working together, changing what it
means
> to be blind could (theoretically) happen a heck of a lot faster. *SMILE*
>
>
> Just sharing my little pipe dream.
>
>
>
>
>
> Alan Wheeler
> awheeler at neb.rr.com or alan_wheeler at neb.rr.com
> redwheel1 on skype
> http://alan-wheeler.blogspot.com/
> "Tell the people the truth and the country will be free"
>   --Abraham Lincoln
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr.
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on
> FederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
>
> Now then!!!  What have Mike I and some others been saying all this time?
> Told ya so.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> The Constantly Barefooted,
> Ray
> Home phone and fax:
> (985)853-0139
> E-mail:
> rforetjr at bellsouth.net
> Skype Name:
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> Blog:
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>
> God bless President George W. Bush!
> God bless our troops!
> and God bless America
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>          National Federation of the Blind Comments
>
>
> on Federal Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
>
>
>
>
> Views Effort as Dangerously Misguided
>
>
>
> Baltimore, Maryland (November 29, 2006): The National Federation of the
> Blind, the largest organization of blind persons in America and known as
the
> voice of the nation's blind, criticized as dangerously misguided a federal
> court ruling saying that the design of U.S.
> currency discriminates against the blind.
>
>
>
> Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said:
> "The blind need jobs and real opportunities to earn money, not feel-good
> gimmicks that misinform the public about our capabilities.  Blind people
> transact business with paper money every day.  This ruling puts a
roadblock
> in the way of solving the real problem, which is the seventy percent
> unemployment rate among working-age blind Americans that severely limits
our
> access to cash.  The ruling will do nothing to alleviate that situation;
in
> fact, it seriously endangers the ability of the blind to get jobs and
> participate fully in society.  It argues that the blind cannot handle
> currency or documents in the workplace and that virtually everything must
be
> modified for the use of the blind.  An employer who believes that every
> piece of printed material in the workplace must be specially designed so
> that the blind can read it will have a strong incentive not to hire a
blind
> person."
>
>
>
> Maurer went on to enumerate the real needs for access to information by
the
> blind and made a distinction between those needs and the issue of
> identifying currency.  "Access to information of all kinds, such as that
> contained on Internet Web sites and in the press, is certainly critical to
> the ability of the blind to become productive members of society.  Blind
> students need educational materials in Braille and other alternative
formats
> so that they can prepare for employment and ultimately earn an income for
> themselves and their families.  Given the urgent need for access to the
kind
> of information that is required for success in America's information
> economy, the matter of identifying the denominations of paper bills is of
> relatively little concern."
>
>
>
> Blind people traditionally identify paper currency by folding bills of
> different denominations in different ways.  "In reality, blind people do
not
> routinely find that we have been short-changed," Maurer commented.
Machines
> are readily available to identify paper money for blind people who run
> businesses or handle large amounts of cash.  "Essentially, the United
States
> Treasury has been ordered by the courts to come up with a solution for a
> nonexistent problem," Maurer said.
>
>
>
> The National Federation of the Blind believes that with training and
> opportunity, blind people can compete in the world with only minor
> modifications.  The American Council of the Blind, which brought the
lawsuit
> against the United States Treasury, promotes the view that the blind are
> unable to compete unless the world is modified dramatically and
specifically
> for blind people, and that the blind must be made objects of care and pity
> rather than equal participants in society.
>
>
>
> John G. Paré Jr.
> Director of Public Relations
> NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
> 1800 Johnson Street
> Baltimore, Maryland  21230
> Telephone:  (410) 659-9314, ext. 2371
> Cell phone:  (410) 913-3912
> Fax:  (410) 685-5653
> Email:  jpare at nfb.org
>
>
>
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