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As seen on TV: New $20 bill ($30 mil ad blitz)
USA TODAY ^
| 10/5/2003
| Theresa Howard
Posted on 10/06/2003 11:29:55 AM PDT by traumer
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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NEW YORK
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: counterfeit; usmoney
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WHY spend $30 mil to promote the new bill ?? It will go into circulation anyway.... What a waste of tax $$ !
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:29:55 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: traumer
The new 20. One word. Gay.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:30:40 AM PDT
by
Spruce
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:31:17 AM PDT
by
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To: traumer
The word "God" is still on the back. Whew!
To: traumer
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:34:53 AM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(your mileage may vary)
To: traumer
I know this is usually asked for on Anna K. & Britney threads, but where's the pics?
To: D. Brian Carter
The Good News: You can use the back side with it's multi-size "20" as an eye chart.
The Bad News: Teh gay.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:36:53 AM PDT
by
CygnusXI
(Where's that dang Meteor already?)
To: traumer
The ad campaign is needed. Otherwise, people might chose to use a competing $ 20 US bill...
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:37:01 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: traumer
WHY spend $30 mil to promote the new bill ?? It will go into circulation anyway.... What a waste of tax $$ ! Why? Because as the article says:
Counterfeits aren't the only reason for ads. Poor communication about the last changes in 1996 left cashiers confused, vending machines unable to take the new bill and old bills seen (incorrectly) as valueless in some foreign markets.
I know of several people who had their new (1996) twenties refused when they tried to buy something with it, because the merchant hadn't heard about the new bills and thought it was some kind of "funny money".
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:37:07 AM PDT
by
Ichneumon
To: traumer
A $30 million rollout? Paid air time? Sounds like a government transfer program to their friends in broadcast media.
To: Spruce
The new 20. One word. Gay. You can send all of yours to me ;)
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:47:08 AM PDT
by
Smogger
To: AFreeBird
Thanks for the pics,just printed up a few hundred of them and I am off to the 7-11 to buy me a slurpee with one of these new fangled twenties.
OK, I am kidding (for the benefit of any Treasury agents lurking on Free Republic).
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:48:06 AM PDT
by
OC_Steve
(Recall Davis!!!)
To: Smogger
They're not that gay!
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:50:54 AM PDT
by
Spruce
To: traumer
WHY spend $30 mil to promote the new bill ?? It will go into circulation anyway.... What a waste of tax $$ !Just a way of funneling welfare to the media, these guys aren't bought on the cheap.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:52:21 AM PDT
by
steve50
(Principles are useless if applied selectively)
To: traumer
So, when are North Korean counterfeiters coming out with its version? Next month?
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:54:01 AM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: AFreeBird
Why is Senator Kerry on the bill, I though he was still alive.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:54:26 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: traumer
WHY spend $30 mil to promote the new bill ?? It will go into circulation anyway.... What a waste of tax $$ ! Ah yes. And I imagine your post if they hadn't done this and there was confusion with many businesses rejecting the new bills:
"IDIOTS! Why didn't the government tell anybody about this change?"
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:54:56 AM PDT
by
TomB
To: CygnusXI
The Good News: You can use the back side with it's multi-size "20" as an eye chart.
Did you know that those big block numbers on the lower right back corner of all the new currency is to aid those with poor vision?
To: traumer
Remember when they brought out the last series of bills and they told us that it would stop counterfeiting? What happened? I wonder what the REAL reason is for the new bills! Any tinfoil hats out there have a clue?
To: traumer
Our currency is starting to look more like Canadian monopoly money. Two words to describe the new look: "funny money"
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