I am responding to an
article on page 412 and 413 in the book talking about making money readable to
the blind. First of all I am in agreement because the blind rely on others to
help them because of their struggle they have to deal with in their life. I think
that there could be a braille system made for money that would tell them what
the number is on the corner of the bill. The only problem with this is that it
would be much more time consuming too make braille money and then the separate money
for the people that are able to see. Some of the ways that the Treasury
Department can make money available to the blind is raising the ink, modifying
the size of certain bills and producing a tactile mark to indicate a bills
denomination. However the Treasury Department has objected all these solutions
claiming that the seventy five million price tag is simply too high. Spending
more money to make money that is losing its value. What a crazy situation
America is in that is making the dollar worth less than it is. However if this
change would have been made years ago rather than fighting the blind in court
for a separate money currency we could have saved our tax money towards a
better cause. Seventy percent of the blind population in America are suffering
from unemployment which is not a shock at all to me. If you can see it helps a
lot in the business world and business are most likely to reject you if you
cannot see. I would be interested in watching a blind person at a job to see
what they have to do and feel. There are still credit cards that the blind can
use.
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