There are so many things throughout modern times that make me wonder just how far we're taking the ethos of every man created equal in America these days and whether it's a good thing or not. There are the increasing rates of IEPs and 504 plans, the general culture of entitlement, the requirements for many things in multiple languages, and now a recent court decision has said that paper bills in the US have to be redesigned to allow blind people to differentiate them from each other.Possible redesigns that have been suggested in various news sources that I've found include texturing the numbers, printing the bills in different sizes, perforating the bills in certain patterns, and my favorite - imbedding a chip that would speak the bill's denomination when brough near a RFID reader.
Hopefully the new design will make it so that the bills don't look like somebody just spilled Kool Aid all over them.
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The US is the only nation that does not have differentiation in the size of our bills...are you suggesting that we shouldn't do this? It's not like all blind people are like Matt Murdock...
Personally, I think we should go back to a design like this one but with the flag in full color, the eagle's feathers slightly raised, and a chip that plays "I'm Proud to be an American" everytime the bill gets spent.
Plus, the chip should yell out These Colors Don't Run on this here $5 bill everytime anybody needed it to.
Oh, the denomination in that last sentence would be changed depending on the bill, of course.
Hey, don't you have a magnet on your car with the flag that says "these colors don't run?" That would be so cool, b/c then your money would match your car!
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