The Founders feared courts run amok. This ruling is another example that their fears were well founded.

Okay, now I understand, it's difficult for blind people to mark their currency, true, but how do they manage to dress in something other than a wetsuit, wingtips and a boat cloak?

Are they that tactile in their fashion sense?

And if they DID dress in a wetsuit, wingtips and a boat cloak, they would likely be of the same color how does that happen?

Trust of others is a significant thing.

If we don't trust others, even if those of us with sight don't have trust, this nation will fall.

It's just that the blind require a little more trust, and find me ONE, ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE blind person, walking around with big bills in their wallet without a verifiable assistance.

I know a guy, he was a lawyer, pretty well off and pretty successful (in terms of my home town) , he got into a car accident, he's a perfectly normal guy, but he is basicaly incapable of dealing with abstract consepts, so he was Screwed as an attorney(and having known the guy before and after? I would say he's better off, thats no shit)

I know another guy, who had a heart attack at 16 years old, he was a Jrotc.

I know another person, in this case a woman, who lost her ability to have children of her own, when she was 12.

I know another person who was castrated (this is the most dicked up one) when he was helping his father re-roof his house, and fell off of the house, he lost a testicle and the other was "alive" when he was 14.

What are the BS legal reperations that these people I just described have?

You know what?

I also have a cousin who is dead, he died when he was 6 years old because of a heart condition, I also have a cousin who died because he was driving back from a hunting trip on a dirt road when it snowed in kentucky, and as he died, he also took two young people with him, one of which was his first sone.

I also have another cousin, who went out and got drunk off of his ass a few months after his fiance' committed suiced because both of her parents died of the same cancer that his grandmother died of.

I'm talking about DEAD people, and CAUSES of people being dead, I'm talking about STERILE people, and the causes of them being STERILE, I'm talking about people who suffer for a lifetime.

Do they get consideration? or do they get assistance?

Does the early onset altzheimers patient get special protection?

I can tell you for a fact, NO!

I understand that the blind can be used, and manipulated, because they are vulnerable, but then again that is EXACTLY who people take advantage of.

It is up to the environment, and the government to protect them, but, if someone who is blind can match their socks, thanks to the assistance of trusted people, then they can trust the people in terms of currency.

I myself have held currency I knew was owned by a blind person.

only a couple of times.

This is a BS manipulation by this court for universal acknowledgement of every human "failing" / "disability" / non-normative welfare cast.

Actually, different sizes and colors helps cut down on con crimes, mistakes at the register, etc.

It would not be the end of the world to consider this for our currency.

I don't think it would be the end of the world either. What I do not like is that a federal judge overstepped his bounds.

I had forgotten that the legislature regulates currency! Thanks for the reminder. I knew something was bothering me about this story, but couldn't put my finger on it.

Mind you, I don't care if they want to change the currency a bit to help out the visually impaired. I just wonder if it would be enough to have different sizes or if they'd have to imprint braille to make a difference (after all, if you only have one bill and nothing to compare it to in size - you still don't know what denomination it is).

As for the color thing. That was my first thought too... *grin*