Tuesday, May 20, 2008

New Money On The Way?

I saw article the other day and I suspect it means that we're in for another currency redesign in the U.S.:

Court says money discriminates against blind people


"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld a ruling that could force the U.S. to redesign its money so blind people can distinguish between values."


The article doesn't go into any details about the counter claim that making these changes would be an unreasonable burden, but I can think of one possible explanation: why spend taxpayer money reworking - again - our currency when using cash is now largely optional?

I do just about everything with electrons or plastic now. About the only time I have cash on me is when someone else pays me with it. Otherwise, I don't spend cash.

Somewhere out there, I'm sure there are entrepreneurs with ideas and inventions that could solve this for blind people, if they haven't already. Why not let them address this issue instead of making government throw more money at it (no pun intended).

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