[Blindtlk] FW: FNC Alert

Wed Nov 29 17:25:57 CST 2006

Allen:

We haven't even gone metric yet! When we're completely metric, *then* talk 
to me about changing the currency!

Mike

----- 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 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: FNC Alert

Diane,
I agree, there are bigger issues to take on, but at the same time, aren't
their bigger issues for the NFB to stand against, too?

You bring up a good point, and not just for blindness/alternative technique
reasons:  Why does the US want so badly to stand out that there can't be
some uniformity with the rest of the world.  I can hear it now, from people
other than you, "Counterfeiting this, counterfeit that," but quite honestly?
I don't buy it.  I'm more concerned about being given a 5 when I should be
handed a 10 than I am winding up with a counterfeit bill.  I mean, it has
never happened to me, and I do understand there's a first time for
everything, but I think that to say "Well, we shouldn't change the currency
because it might be more easily counterfeited." holds about as much water as
my spaghetti collinder. *SMILE*

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 Graves, Diane
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:03 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: FNC Alert

Good Morning To All,

My viewpoint is pretty much in line with yours Sherri.  I mean, PLEASE do
not get me wrong.  We have MANY much more important issues in need of
attention from our legislators and legal system than this one.

I too have a method of folding my money, and it generally has proven to be
quite effective.  For many years I didn't even fold it.  What I would do is
keep the larger bills on the outside of the role or stack of bills and the
smaller ones in the middle, and then just remember what I had.
But alas, I am growing older, and my memory is growing weaker.  So several
years ago I began to fold the bills for identification purposes.

But, it is a fact that, in order to get our money folded in the first place
we do have to depend on the honesty/accuracy of a merchant, a bank teller, a
family member and so on.  That is, if we don't' have that $400 identifier.
Most of the time this method of initial identification works fine, but I
have been known to be on the other side of that coin.
It doesn't happen regularly or often, but it has happened.

Like Sherri, I don't spend a great deal of time fretting about this issue,
but the rest of the world is going to a completely tactilely identifiable
monitory system, and I don't see why we need to be different just to prove
that there are alternative techniques.

After all, progress is progress.  I mean, prior to the days of wide-spread
computer use, and scanners and Kurzweil and the whole bit, blind people
hired and used readers and sometimes had to call on others to proof read
there typed work and so on.  This worked out fine for them then.  It was an
alternative technique and it worked well.  But would you rather have stayed
back there?  Aren't you thankful, glad and elated, that you can now take
care of your bills, mail and other business totally independently for the
most part?

I know I am.  The alternative techniques worked fine for their time, but I
for one, am grateful to be increasingly more independent of sighted
assistance.

And now we even have the Kurzweil/NFB handheld reader which will increase
that independence even more as it can be carried with us.  I can't wait to
get my hands on one of those.  I am folding my money and putting it away
(when I can) in anticipation of that grand purchase.

I do understand that it seems absurd to spend time on the little things when
there are so many major problems, but don't knock progress guys!
Every little piece of independence we achieve is precious.  At least it is
to me.

Diane Graves
Civil Rights Specialist
Indiana Civil Rights Commission
Alternative Dispute Resolutions Unit
317-232-2647

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."--Winston Churchill

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Sherri
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:26 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: FNC Alert

This is probably an unpopular viewpoint and though I manage pretty well
without it and am much more concerned about obtaining more money than I am
about having some tactile way to tell bills apart other than folding, I
guess I don't understand why we don't just catch up with the rest of the

world and make our money identifiable? If we have to change it anyway
because of counterfeit bills, why not just make the other changes too?
However, I don't stay up nights thinking about this issue. Really, it isn't
that important in the scheme of things. (smile)

Sherri

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