[nfb-talk] From today's New York Times

[Rick E Morin]

The following statement from the November 29, 2006 Press Release is simply
not true and is inflammatory and defamatory; The American Council of the
Blind.... 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.  
Disagree all you want. This above statement was made as a statement of fact
and is totally untrue. 

Rick E. Morin

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Wm. Ritchhart
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:33 AM
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So what?  You posted your editorial remarks last night.  Just because
you reword them it does not change anything.  

William
 


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> 
> December 3, 2006
> Editorial
> If It Feels Like a Dollar ... 
> Anybody who has ever handed over a $10 bill thinking it was a dollar
> knows the problem. Unlike the currency in 180 other countries, the
> American greenback comes in one size, and one dominant color - green.
> That can be so confusing for the 3.3 million Americans who are either
> blind or have very poor sight that a United States District Court
> judge in the District of Columbia ruled last week that the government
> had unlawfully denied them access to the nation's paper money.
> Changing United States legal tender would be expensive - the
> government says that redesigning its currency would cost hundreds of
> millions of dollars. It would also pose problems for those who make or
> use machines that take money for tickets or soft drinks, or change at
> the Laundromat. And the government's lawyers have argued that some
> changes could make it easier to counterfeit United States cash.
> Judge James Robertson's opinion makes it clear that the American
> government simply has not tried very hard to help those Americans who
> cannot see their money. The Treasury Department has revamped United
> States currency design twice in the last 10 years without making any
> real adaptation for the blind - despite numerous pleas. None of the
> other objections seem convincing. The machines that take dollars could
> be adapted; in Europe, they work with currency that comes in a variety
> of sizes. And some of the additions to bills that help the blind, like
> embossed dots or raised numerals, are used elsewhere as extra
> safeguards against counterfeiting.
> Judge Robertson wisely resisted telling the Bureau of Engraving and
> Printing exactly how to make its bills more accessible to the visually
> impaired. He merely wants officials to return soon to his court and
> offer a plan. United States currency might come in slightly different
> sizes or textures for each denomination. Perhaps the money-printing
> machines in Washington could start on the larger-denomination bills
> first, leaving the most numerous ones - the singles - the same as
> ever. However it happens, the change could also be a boon to Americans
> who are not blessed with 20-20 vision.
> Rick E. Morin
> mailto:rick.morin at comcast.net
> 
> 
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