If you had any lingering doubts that our Judicial system is totally and utterly hopeless, try this little tidbit on for size:
American paper money represents an unfair impediment to the blind, and the Treasury Department must come up with new U.S. currency to help the visually impaired use cash, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson said keeping all U.S. currency the same size and texture violates the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in government programs.
You really must be kidding. Thats a slippery slope of logic which can be applied to almost anything. Worse, this is an utter waste of our justice system. Blind people are inconvenienced at most, and identifying the denomination of a note is probably the least of the problems a blind person overcomes every day. We do not have a right to convenience, sorry guys.
I love those tiny little, 2 seater sports cars. However I am 6′5, and I simply do not fit into them, unless I want to have my knees up by my ears. They are imposable to drive. Under this logic these car companies would be discriminating against me, as I am height challenged and I have a right to enjoy the same sports cars all the normal sized people in the world do.
Fortunately, some agree:
But John Paré, director of public relations for the National Federation of the Blind, the nation’s largest organization representing blind people, said identifying the money is hardly the most difficult obstacle for the blind to overcome.
“The focus for improving the lives of blind Americans needs to be put on earning money not figuring out how to identify money,” he said. “Over 70 percent of blind Americans are under-employed or unemployed and this is what needs to be addressed.
“It really is distracting to have this lawsuit,” he said, since assistance should concentrate on people “who don’t have the money in the first place.”
This suit came from the American Council for the Blind. Obviously an organization who has hopes of political activism rather than actually improving the lives of those without sight.
H/T to HotAir
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