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No, Carter and Obama are not eligible.
1 posted on 08/21/2010 7:17:49 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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Sunnunu who gave us Souter?


2 posted on 08/21/2010 7:19:18 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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I like the Bill Clinton quarter.


3 posted on 08/21/2010 7:21:51 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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Why hasn’t Tim Geithner signed any money? Every other Sec of Treasury has. Come on Timmay, put your name out there!


4 posted on 08/21/2010 7:22:31 AM PDT by cowtowney
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Buchanan was not the worst president, but he probably is in the top 20. I think that distinctive title should go to Wilson. But Obama, before his term is over, is going to wrest the title away, I think.


5 posted on 08/21/2010 7:23:01 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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The worst President was Carter, and that's because Soetoro isn't President.
7 posted on 08/21/2010 7:25:04 AM PDT by Vincent Jappi (I like cats.)
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And if the dollar coins were to catch on and replace paper $1 bills entirely, it could save the country between $500 and $700 million each year in printing costs

And, if we stopped printing money to waste on bailouts, entitlement programs, and failed kenysian economics we'd save BILIONS of DOLLARS in costs.

8 posted on 08/21/2010 7:25:52 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (The buck, it seems, never gets to Obama; a surprise considering how many they print)
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3-Bucks
10 posted on 08/21/2010 7:27:07 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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I didn’t even know there were $1 coins until I got four of them in change from a machine in a parking garage! And I had no idea there were $10 gold coins until I read this article.

They guy at a toll booth the other day couldn’t even tell me if the correct change machines on some lanes would accept the $1 coin.


13 posted on 08/21/2010 7:31:17 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
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Coins are bad from the environment. They use 10 times the fuel to transport.
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14 posted on 08/21/2010 7:40:40 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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are meant to improve use and circulation of America's dollar coins

The best way to improve circulation of dollar coins is to stop printing dollar bills.

15 posted on 08/21/2010 7:41:58 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Even Hitler had Government run health care, but at least he got the Olympics for Germany)
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Here's what the Mint should do:

(1) Stop producing the $1 bill and gradually withdraw remaining bills from circulation

(2) Recall ALL $1 coins - ALL OF THEM - and create a single new $1 coin that's as heavy and distinctive as the British pound that features the likeness of one of the Founders, preferably John Hancock

(3) Abolish the penny and nickel, and make the dime the same size as the nickel.

16 posted on 08/21/2010 7:42:55 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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At first I thought it was about the Kenyan item:


18 posted on 08/21/2010 7:48:50 AM PDT by mikrofon ("Change" You Can Believe In)
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1922 was the last time a decent dollar coin was minted. And possibly the worst...tough choice but the SBA is near the top clunker.


21 posted on 08/21/2010 7:57:44 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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The bill also suggested that a program wherein Presidents are featured on a succession of $1 coins, and First Spouses commemorated on gold $10 coins, could help correct a state of affairs where “many people cannot name all of the Presidents, and fewer can name the spouses...”


Yes, it is very important to name the first spouses. It is only fair.

Idiocy rules the day.


22 posted on 08/21/2010 8:01:11 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Pray for our leaders: Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.)
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consensus of historians, anyway, who have traditionally censured Buchanan for his failure to prevent the Civil War

Lincoln is the one that should be censured for starting the War of Northern Aggression.

Buchanan's mantra was "I acknowledge no master but the law." He believed that secession was illegal but he also believed that starting a war to stop secession was also illegal, and, IMO, immoral, because a union forced at gunpoint is no union at all.

23 posted on 08/21/2010 8:02:19 AM PDT by cowboyway (Molon labe)
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The bill also suggested that a program wherein ... and First Spouses commemorated on gold $10 coins, could help correct a state of affairs where "many people cannot name all of the Presidents, and fewer can name the spouses,

Yeah, everyone's going to spend a few hundred dollars per coin to get a half ounce of gold just to learn the names of the first ladies.

27 posted on 08/21/2010 8:16:45 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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Having so many different versions of the $1 coin is just going to encourage hoarding by collectors.

Since they got rid of the Lincoln memorial on the reverse of the penny and replaced it with an imitation of a state highway marker, now is the time to use the back of the penny to commemorate all of the counties. If they did 2 a week it wouldn't take that many years. It's the logical next step after doing the states on the back of the quarter.

29 posted on 08/21/2010 8:26:38 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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As I’ve said before, we cannot get rid of the $1 bill. What are we going to tip strippers with?


30 posted on 08/21/2010 8:32:04 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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There have been 44 US presidents, more or less.

The US mint should have printed all of them first, then produced sets in typical coin cardboard containers displaying all 44, for $60, providing $16 for shipping and handling. Or $15, if they included one coin that was reversed, to show the common reverse the coins share.

Then, as an added bonus, they could sell $50 rolls of coins of a particular president, and for the real collectors, a *silver* set of presidential $20 coins (silver is about $18.50/ounce right now), for about $900.

A silver $20 coin would have to be much more artistic, however, but with a classical look. The avant garde look they’ve been trying on coins recently is pretty lame.


33 posted on 08/21/2010 8:44:10 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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IMHO the reason no one wants $1 coins is the bulk. I can carry 20 $1 bills in my pocket and never notice the difference.

If I’ve got 20 $1 coins in my pocket, I’m leaning sideways. Although if I put them in my other pocket, it would balance out my carry piece.

Maybe that’s the solution. Let everyone carry and they can use the right number of coins to balance out the load.


36 posted on 08/21/2010 8:54:00 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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