,,, five bucks says you'll stay with good old greenbacks.
Posted on 06/17/2002 7:08:01 PM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Benjamin Franklin in orange. Andrew Jackson with purple hair. Those crinkly greenbacks tucked into your billfold aren't going punk, but they are headed for another makeover that may make them more colorful.
Some paper bills might even sport a spot of 3-D.
The addition of color and technology that looks like 3-D holograms are some of the ideas being floated as the government works on designing new bills to thwart high-tech counterfeiters. That's a continuing challenge in a world where large quantities of bogus notes can be produced easily and quickly using increasingly sophisticated computer technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Does such a small amount (as a percentage of the total dollars in circulation) justify a total overhaul? I think not.
This is another step towards a cashless society.
This is another step towards a cashless society.
You were doing so well. And then you went paranoid on us.
,,, there ya go, we can do it in green too. That's a little under $US10, but we've got other colours to save confusion.
Five years ago, people who talked about gun confiscation, global taxes, global courts, and implantable microchips were considered "paranoid" as well.
When viewed with an open mind, it's pretty clear what the tyrants have in store for us.
Our currency is more dignified than boring. If Knight is looking for boring, he should check out the backs of Canadian bills. With the exception of the newly designed $10 Cdn (a very colorful bill, BTW), they feature birds like a kingfisher and a loon. I like nature scenes as much as the next guy (I even have wildlife designs on my checks), but Canada's efforts are a bit uninspired IMO.
Boring is better than tacky anyway. One good thing about the euro is that the French don't have the crappy little 20 franc bill of Claude Debussy to carry around anymore.
I still can't understand how your mega economy could stick with stock quotations in eighths of dollars and decimalise the invoices for so long on the basis of tradition.
From the outset you got it right with 100 cents to a dollar, why did the NYSE take so long to change?
Well Clark Bars have a very well respected reputation here in the U.S.
Gotta agree with that. The US currency looks like it was thought up by the world's worst art director. Plus, all the bills are the same size and color, and the treasury insists on not terminating the dollar paper note. So you wind up with a wallet bulging with ones that have little purchasing power.
I certainly don't agree with a lot of European politics, but the money over there is at least interesting - and it used to be more so before the Euro. (Still cannot believe that the French and Germans gave up on their beloved Francs and Marks...) It's easier to shop with European-style money, too - you can see at an instant's glance the denomination of the bill in your hand (by its size and color) and the monetary unit standard is a COIN - which last 20 times longer than a paper note. One of the things I love about spending with coins is that shoppers don't have to struggle with wallets, coin purses inside wallets secreted inside organizers stuffed in big purses held by large carry-all bags. In Europe, almost everyone wears garments with coin pockets, and if you want something, you can fish out a coin with one hand, pay, and move out of the way.
Here in the States, some women make a career out of getting out enough money to pay from within the nether reaches of their NSA-designed handbags.
Michael
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.