Money for All: Accessible Currency Petition

Well, this one’s definitely cause to update one’s blog!

Please read and sign this petition. If you’re like me, and you think the government spends far too much money on stuff Americans neither need nor care a wit about, you can pat yourself on the back for recommending a good federal investment for once: the Money for All: Accessible Currency Petition. Ummm … No. It’s not what it sounds like (an ultra-Socialist proposal to put government money into the hands of everyone). It’s a petition to Congress to make paper money identifiable to blind citizens. Think about it: When you close your eyes and put your hand into your wallet, can you tell the difference between the fiver you just put in and the $20 you keep on hand for emergencies? No. You cannot. Not without peeking. Well, neither can us blind people … only we can’t peek. We have to either run our paper bills through a finicky little scanning device that costs hundreds and needs constant updating to correctly identify a one from a $50, or we need to take the word of someone else. Someone like … a cashier, say, or a cab driver we didn’t like in the first place, who takes that $20 for emergencies and hands us a wad of identical-feeling bills that may or may not be the correct change for our fair.

Well, it doesn’t have to be that way, does it? This is America! We have the means and the money to change the feel or size of paper bills to be more readily identifiable to the blind! 180 other, less-prosperous countries have had blind-accessible money for years! Please sign this petition and let ours know it’s about time!