Pushing The Envelope or Currency Discrimination
I remember reading an article several months ago about a court case where an advocate for the blind was suing the US Treasury because they felt that paper money discriminated against the vision impaired. Today, a US Appeals Court agreed that the US Treasury did discriminate by not making our paper money readable for blind people. This does not appear to be a big issue as the Treasury has redesigned the money several times over the last 20 years to fight counterfeiting. But now we are faced with a small group of people suing to change something that will have little affect on the rest of the population. That bothers me.
We already have brail on the drive up ATM machines. I am very worried about that. How do blind people get a driver’s license? I can see this being carried to its natural absurdity by the “everyone needs to be equal society” (ie.. socialist / communist / democrat party). The next thing we will be legally mandated by the courts is that all purchased items will need to be identified as to what they are so the blind can buy them. Every box, can, and container will need to be identified so the blind will be able to purchase them. Let’s raise the cost of all products because we need to be able to identify them in the dark.
If we take this to the next step in absurdity, we can include all disabled classes in this arrangement. Music must be made hearable to the deaf or cinnamon rolls must be made smell able to the aromatic impaired. After all, aren’t we discriminating against those who are not able to hear and smell these things? I do not disagree that with all of the changes that have occurred in our currency in the last several years, something could have been done. What annoys me is the creeping incrementalism of the liberal / progressive agenda. Get your foot in the door with one small concession and then open the flood gates to pound out every day common sense. People are not born with equal abilities. That is the way God made us. Get over it.
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Cobb
We already have brail on the drive up ATM machines. I am very worried about that. How do blind people get a driver’s license? I can see this being carried to its natural absurdity by the “everyone needs to be equal society” (ie.. socialist / communist / democrat party). The next thing we will be legally mandated by the courts is that all purchased items will need to be identified as to what they are so the blind can buy them. Every box, can, and container will need to be identified so the blind will be able to purchase them. Let’s raise the cost of all products because we need to be able to identify them in the dark.
If we take this to the next step in absurdity, we can include all disabled classes in this arrangement. Music must be made hearable to the deaf or cinnamon rolls must be made smell able to the aromatic impaired. After all, aren’t we discriminating against those who are not able to hear and smell these things? I do not disagree that with all of the changes that have occurred in our currency in the last several years, something could have been done. What annoys me is the creeping incrementalism of the liberal / progressive agenda. Get your foot in the door with one small concession and then open the flood gates to pound out every day common sense. People are not born with equal abilities. That is the way God made us. Get over it.
Icool
Cobb
posted by Cobb at
2:36 PM
1 Comments:
This is crazy. When are we (as a country) going to stop catering to the needs, wants, and desires of every sub-group. Yes, I feel their plight, but come-on, deal with it.
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Texas Truth, at 12:26 AM
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