[nfb-talk] A matter of trust Re: Cash

[Cindy Handel]

There always has to be an element of trust in any transaction of money.  We 
do have to rely on a sighted person to tell us what money we have and trust 
that they're being truthful.  To demand that the government and private 
business incur the expense of changing our existing system for the small 
number of blind people in the country, and even smaller incidences of 
deliberate dishonesty, is just unreasonable.

Where does it stop?  Why not demand that all cash registers be required to 
talk, so we're sure that the credit card slip we're asked to sign says what 
we're told it says?  I believe there's a higher likelihood of dishonesty, 
here, than in a cash transaction, and even those instances are relatively 
small.

So, it's a lot of smoke where there is no fire.

Cindy


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