[nfbwatlk] An Inconvenient Question

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Mike and fellow Listers:
 
I was a cashier for a medical center in AZ. My duties were the  following:
 
Keeping a written record of all credit card payments to the hospital 
Making sure we had $400 in coin in the safe at all times; I had to count  the 
rolls for each denomination and make a written record. I had to order extra  
coin from the bank and sign for the delivery from Wells Fargo. 
 
Keep $100 dollars in my till and account for it before and after my  shift
 
Complete all the paperwork for the main cashier office; count and fill out  
paperwork for the cafeteria and the emergency department and deliver 2 badgs  
(locked) and fill out all the paperwork for the auditors.
 
Keep track of all the patient valuables and lock them in a box in the  safe
 
That's just a start. I also had to keep reack of all patent movement in the  
medical center. 
 
I am against accessible currency because it is not needed and it is too  
costly. I am sure my fellow members in the CFB will agree with me. I don't see  
that it has made much of a difference for the.. 
 
I say these statements based on actual experience. Not out of bias. I was  
attacked my sme in the ACB for my views. 
 
 
Is this really a battle we should fight?
 
Lisa A. Owen
Treasurer Officer & Fund Raising Chair 
The Northwest Chapter 
Secretary Officer 
NFB of WA Student Division 
Member
The Canadian Federation of the Blind
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/28/2008 11:31:02 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jmfreeman at bpa.gov writes:

Fellow  listers:

Recently there has been a fair amount of discussion, both  on
NFB-sponsored lists and lists sponsored by other organizations, of  the
recent U.S. District Court decision affirming the contention by  the
American Council of the Blind that the U.S. Department of the  Treasury
is discriminating against the blind by failing to provide for  currency
the value of which can be distinguished by touch. Amid the  cacaphony of
debate concerning the merit of the court decision and the  lawsuit, there
have been messages maintaining that, putting aside legal  debates,
adoption of accessible currency in this country would result in  opening
up of many retail and cashier jobs for the blind. If this assertion  is
true, it seems to me that there ought to be an appreciably  larger
proportion of blind persons holding retail and cashier jobs in  countries
with tactily-differentiable currency than is the case here in the  U.S. I
wonder if anyone (say an up-and-coming sociology student looking  for
ways to waste government R&D money) has looked into this question?  The
results might be interesting.

In fact, I suspect that the  results might fly in the face of common
sense: I'd be willing to bet some  of that inaccessible U.S. currency
that the opposite holds true. I'll bet  that the unemployment rate (not
counting jobs in government or in  professions set aside for the blind
such as selling lottery tickets in  Spain or, to some extent, massage
therapy in Japan) is no lower for the  blind and visually impaired in
countries with accessible currency than it  is here in the U.S. Certainly
the unemployment rate for the blind and  visually impaired in Canada, a
country with purportedly-accessible  currency, is as high as it is here
in the U.S.

Just something to  think about.

Mike  Freeman
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