[real-eyes] Re: money news
- From: "& Ruthie" <chaosynchronous@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:38:06 -0600
I wonder which would cost the government more...redesigning the damn bills
or buying every blind man, woman and child in america a portable currenc
reader?
Ruthie &
Use GOTOs only to implement a fundamental structure.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Bloch" <wbloch@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:57 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] money news
>I am posting this without comment.
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> Government resists altering money for blind people
> Story Highlights
> .Administration says changing denominations would be too costly
> .U.S. district judge ruled last week that uniform money violates law
> .Government says blind people can use credit or debit cards
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> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration on Tuesday asked a
> federal court to overturn a lower-court ruling requiring the federal
> government redesign the nation's paper money to help blind people
> differentiate between denominations of bills.
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> Judge James Robertson of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the
> District of Columbia ruled last month that the Treasury Department is
> violating the law by keeping all paper money the same size and feel,
> preventing blind people from distinguishing the amount.
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> Robertson, in a ruling on a suit by the American Council of the
> Blind, ordered the government to come up with a way to tell bills apart.
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> In its appeal, the Bush administration disagreed with Robertson's
> ruling that blind people were denied "meaningful access" to money by the
> same-sized bills because portable currency readers exist to help
> distinguish the bills. The government also said blind people can use
> credit and debit cards instead of cash.
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> The government also disagreed with Robertson's ruling that making
> changes would not impose an "undue burden." The government said that
> making any changes to the currency would interfere with mandates to guard
> against counterfeiting and would cost too much.
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> The American Council for the Blind has submitted several alternatives
> to the same-sized bills, including embossing, holes punched in the paper
> or using different-sized bills for different denominations.
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