Blind Money

I was going to write on this, but James Taranto sums it up better:

Blind Man’s Bucks?
“The government discriminates against blind people by printing money that all looks and feels the same, a federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that could change the face of American currency,” the Associated Press reports from Washington.

Was that a misprint? The government discriminates against blind people by printing money that looks the same? Sure enough, that’s what Judge James Robertson said:

“Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations,” Robertson wrote. “More than 100 of the other issuers vary their bills in size according to denomination, and every other issuer includes at least some features that help the visually impaired.”

Now we can see why it might be helpful to the blind if, say, $10 and $20 bills were a different size. But why does Robertson mention color? Blind people can’t tell what color something is, because they can’t see!

Isn’t it obvious that Robertson–a Clinton appointee, in case you were wondering–is just engaging in a little fashionable America-bashing, claiming other countries are better because, of all things, their money looks more like it comes from a Monopoly set?