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05-20-2008, 10:09 AM
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Handicapped?DEAL with it.
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Bill,
It certainly discriminates against me. It stays far away from me. I wonder if I can sue the Govt. because I can't get any money.
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05-20-2008, 10:53 AM
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It certainly discriminates against me. It stays far away from me. I wonder if I can sue the Govt. because I can't get any money.
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What a great idea. Go for it Ron.
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05-20-2008, 11:03 AM
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Many other countries make their bills in different sizes so the blind can tell the difference. I think that we should incorporate something into the bills so the blind can tell the difference. Maybe not different sizes, but something.
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05-20-2008, 11:24 AM
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NZ has had a different size for each denomination for as long as I can remember. Makes it easy for a blind person to tell which note they are handing over - but far more importantly they can tell which notes they are getting handed back as change.
If the solution for a blind person having trouble with currency is to deal with it, why do we spent $M's regulating and constructing buildings to be wheelchair accessible when they could simply deal with it instead?
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05-20-2008, 11:33 AM
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Just give them blank pieces of paper of different sizes. Hmmm. THEIR PROBLEM IS STILL NOT SOLVED !!!
I say the United Nations should fund a 10 year study on how to solve this problem worldwide!!!!
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05-20-2008, 11:33 AM
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If the solution for a blind person having trouble with currency is to deal with it, why do we spent $M's regulating and constructing buildings to be wheelchair accessible when they could simply deal with it instead?
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Because handicapped access is a law.
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It seems to me that the handicap issue does not effect everyone until they have personal experience with it.
If something as simple as making the bills a different size could help many people I think we should seriously consider it. Those that THINK THEY are perfect in every way can tolerate the inconveniences until they can't see $hit themselves. Then they will think "son of a beach that was a good idea"
I personally never really had any experience with that issue until my brother broke his neck and became a quadripeligic. Things like parking spaces were the first to stand out. There are more lazy fat ass-ed people parking in those spaces than there are handicapped people. If I had my way with that issue I would have the cars towed and held in impound for one year, with daily storage fees that had to be paid each month or you go to jail. In addition to the fines that would be several thousand dollars. Second offenses would be jail. The damn doctors that give those tags out like free government cheese should be held accountable as well.
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They will next complain that they cannot see the television sets and that the manufacturers should make the screens in a conformable brail like texture that represents the image so that they can feel the screen.
Also for deaf people, they should make a microwave that pounds on the floor when done cooking instead of an audible beep.
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It seems to me that the handicap issue does not effect everyone until they have personal experience with it.
If something as simple as making the bills a different size could help many people I think we should seriously consider it. Those that THINK THEY are perfect in every way can tolerate the inconveniences until they can't see $hit themselves. Then they will think "son of a beach that was a good idea"
I personally never really had any experience with that issue until my brother broke his neck and became a quadripeligic. Things like parking spaces were the first to stand out. There are more lazy fat ass-ed people parking in those spaces than there are handicapped people. If I had my way with that issue I would have the cars towed and held in impound for one year, with daily storage fees that had to be paid each month or you go to jail. In addition to the fines that would be several thousand dollars. Second offenses would be jail. The damn doctors that give those tags out like free government cheese should be held accountable as well.
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I agree with you Steve. When I had my surgery, I was on crutches for 2 months and I could have gotten a temporary placard, but i did not. I figured I was physically able to walk on crutches from the parking lot, so I would leave the spaces for others who couldn't. I cussed out a few fat lazy people who parked there with their placards. I even had 1 elderly man in a power wheel chair come up to me to thank me. The woman had cut him off to get that space. Her only handicap was she had 2 hands and only 1 mouth to shovel food into.
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There are many devices and means available to make the day-to-day lives of blind/deaf people easier. The treasury can redesign the currency so it looks nice - but seem unable to do something as simple as has been done in most other parts of the world to make it usable by everyone.
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I Got It! How about talking currency???? Or train the dog to bark 5 time for a fin.
Roscoe (disabled vet with no handicapped plaque)
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Perhaps we can sum this up in 1 question.
"What are your reasons for not making day-to-day life a little easier for a blind person?"
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Same, don't need one. I can get around well enough right now, even without all the tendons in my ankle/foot. I just can't run or play sports
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Doug, I don't think it about reasons to not do it (at least not for me). It is more about how so many people in this country expect everything to be handed to them. I really don't care about the money, and to be honest, it may be the right thing to do. Just the way it is presented, it feels like another attempt to get handed something.
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I guess it's a sign of the times now that we're in a ligated society. Common sense could have made this a non-issue many years ago - but it appears that it's taken a Court to at least get it talked about.
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It seems to me that the handicap issue does not effect everyone until they have personal experience with it.
I personally never really had any experience with that issue until my brother broke his neck and became a quadripeligic.
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05-20-2008, 01:32 PM
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Perhaps we can sum this up in 1 question.
"What are your reasons for not making day-to-day life a little easier for a blind person?"
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Doug-where does it stop?Is there a real problem with people ripping off blind folks?If there is,then wouldn't it make more sense to approach it from another angle instead of FORCING the rest of the country to pay for it?
If a blind person goes to an ATM and withdraws $200.That person knows they have have 10 $20 bills in their hand.Keeping track of it is simple math after that.
This is more symtomatic than anything else. 
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double post-sorry!
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My youngest brother fell when he was just about 2 years old and hit his head on a rock and that caused him a lot of misery. Then when I came home from Korea, they called me to come in and sent me home because he had lost his eyesight completely and a little later they had to take him to San Francisco and put a shunt in his brain. He was blind for about 8 years before the shunt failed and he passed away. But he was by far the most intelligent one of our family and he learned how to deal with his handicaps very fast. He could count change ok, but the bills were not something that he could do by feel. So I have been around handicapped people quite a bit as I spent as much time as I could with him and at the school where they had every type of handicapped kid it seemed. And for the most part, they handled it a great deal better than I could have. I am not sure about changing the money as look at what it would have cost to change the penny and nickle over and I never saw any person that came to the school try to cheat one of the kids.
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