Wednesday, April 9, 2014


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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