Posted on 04/02/2008 7:42:28 PM PDT by Richard Poe
Your currency sounds like a bowl of "Lucky Charms" cereal!
;-)
I really think there are more important things to be concerned with. Pretty trivial.
Look at some of the moneys around the world, this stuff is tame and conservative.
$4.50 in Albuquerque, $7.00 in Chicago, $9.00 in New York, and I do care.
What can you buy with your $0.80 change after buying a gallon of gas?
I find it a bit ironic that a product from Florida USA that doesn't require refining is more expensive than a product the raw material for which must be shipped half way around the world before they can even begin turning it into a useful product.
Aren't you glad that those "undocumented migrant workers" are keeping the cost of it down? /SARC
I’m working on a solution to this embarrassment for America.
Until my project is complete, please simply send all of your $5 bills to me, postage paid, at:
1234 Georgetown Lane,
Georgetown, Cayman Is.
Not to be a hack, but keep in mind the world isn’t drilling, nor can it, for orange juice to keep money moving.
In any case I said nothing about "copiers" ~ just printers.
Looks good to me.
Maybe they are testing new printing techniques on the $5 bill that might go into the next redesign of the $100 bill.
“You can buy two gallons of milk for 5 bucks.”
Where? Milk is over $5 a gallon in these parts.
A day late? How so?
I don't want to come off like a Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich nutbag, but maybe their idea (the big three) planned this economy collapse we are in right now. The "new" Amero, along with the merged economies (Canada/US and Mexico) will be touted as the only way to stabilize the individual countries economy this way (i.e. the EU).
The Amero may have to be a 3 sided coin to appease all 3 countries with their slogans and images.
Disclaimer: most of this was meant to get a laugh, but taken with it a grain of sea salt.
Why do people still use cash?
Debit cards and credit cards, folks.
Almost all banks cover all illegal charges if you report in a timely manner.
Instant, crystal clear records on your computer.
Almost no risk for robbery, except from a few morons like the Homocide Twins in Chapel Hill who posed for ATM photos.
"That's an explosive mixture. It risks a kind of inflation that would trigger panic buying, hoarding and fears of mass political protest. Actually, this is already happening in Asia."
Good Lord! $9 for a pack of cigarettes??? I’m glad I don’t smoke! People must have to work an extra job just to be able to afford to continue smoking. I remember as a teenager being sent down to the store on the corner by my parents and paying less than a couple dollars for a pack!
(Organic milk is $6 a gallon here in Washington state, gas is about $3.40/gl.)
The first pack I bought was $0.25 from a vending machine and there was a new penny inside the celophane wrapper.
Oddly enough the profit margins per pack to "big tobacco" has remained roughly the same, with various governments extracting and accounting for the difference.
BTW, if you attempted to buy cigarettes these days as a teenager, you would be arrested and your parental units would be fined.
Yes. It does. You must REALLY not look at money.
Ho hum. We have fiat money. Eventually, its face value will equal its value as paper, and you can afford to burn it for heat.
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