What does Smirky have against blind people?

[deminks]

Government resists altering money for blind people

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/12/blind.money/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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.

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.

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.

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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Ummm, have you ever handed your credit card or debit card to some stranger you couldn't see?

[silverweb]

1. I don't get it.

What's so hard about embossing the bills with braille or some other identifying symbols?

Idiots.

[BattyDem]

5. Exactly!

Why would that be difficult to do? More importantly ... what reason does BushCo have for fighting it? :shrug:

[Redstone]

2. He just fucking hates EVERYBODY, doesn't he? The man has NO soul.

Redstone

[silverojo]

8. He's just a cruel SOB who enjoys tormenting the handicapped

It'd be so simple to print braille on our currency...bastards! :mad:

[goclark]

3. When will the madness end!

[tuvor]

4. I get it. Blind people have it good *enough*.

Thus saith President I-Got-Mine.

[sam sarrha]

6. The Fascists believe that poverty and disability are vices of the weak... they dont deserve anything

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Why waste your time with these heartless bastards?

They're Repubs, aren't they? You know that going in.