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Good grief, a kid has to have a 10 million dollar bill just to buy a penny gumball.

On the bright side the people there are getting really good at figuring large numbers in their head though...

1 posted on 07/19/2008 12:35:39 PM PDT by Abathar
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(Dave Chappelle) - “I’M RICH, BEE-YOTCH!”


2 posted on 07/19/2008 12:37:17 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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Why don’t they just drop the zeros?


3 posted on 07/19/2008 12:37:33 PM PDT by Perdogg
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This is where Dem/Lib/Socialist/Commie leadership will get us.


4 posted on 07/19/2008 12:37:40 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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No, you need a billion dollars to buy that penny candy.

Something is wrong there...


5 posted on 07/19/2008 12:39:06 PM PDT by zeebee
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Zimbabwe Monopoly:

"Go to jail! Do not pass GO, do not collect $2T trillion dollars."

6 posted on 07/19/2008 12:39:33 PM PDT by quark
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Stoking the furnace with bills, Weimar Germany.
8 posted on 07/19/2008 12:41:38 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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The new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar

Holy cow, last week I think $1 US Dollar = $28 Billion Zimbabwe Dollars! It's freefalling into a bottomless pit.

9 posted on 07/19/2008 12:42:52 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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troubled central bank

Troubled?

The "economy" in Zimbabwe has collapsed.

That's um, "troubled"?

Imagine if Mugabe were a white male, instead of the Saintly Revolutionary Who Overthrew the Evil Ian Smith.

The term for monetary collapse would be quite a bit harsher.

But not when you're a tribalist thug. Then you get a pass from all the filth who trumpeted your ascendancy 25 years ago as The Second Coming and the End of Injustice.

Far be it from them to admit their monstrous mistake.

10 posted on 07/19/2008 12:43:18 PM PDT by Regulator (Obama = Mugabe)
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What was that earlier government in history that had to do that???? Oh yeah,.. the Wiemar Republic.
12 posted on 07/19/2008 12:46:24 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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Look at the upside - they can finally pay this guy off.

"Ok then, we hold the world ransom for 100 Billion dollars!"

13 posted on 07/19/2008 12:48:14 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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One again, the brilliant revolutionary Robert Mugabe proves his genius, as he trains the kids of Zimbabwe to use scientific notation to buy gum-balls.

Comin' up next, the Avogadro Note: 6.022 * 10^23 Zimbabwe dollars = 1 US dime.

14 posted on 07/19/2008 12:55:38 PM PDT by FredZarguna (In vino Possumus.)
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Socialism works!

Everyone in Zimbabwe is a Billionaire!


15 posted on 07/19/2008 12:57:30 PM PDT by Wil H
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Well the first thing you know ol’ Mogufu’s a billionaire...


16 posted on 07/19/2008 12:57:41 PM PDT by Krankor (N)
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Alas, thanks to Greenspan(shorting the CC stocks) and now Bernanke (Helicopter Ben)we are heading in the same direction...


17 posted on 07/19/2008 12:57:52 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nilhilism)
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With inflation like that, money and savings have no value. Thus all become equally poor and miserable (except the ruling elite). Marxism in action.


19 posted on 07/19/2008 1:07:04 PM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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They still contract a European company to produce the notes using quality paper and lithography. Might be interesting to squirrel one away just for future collector value. You don’t see notes issued in denominations of 10^11 everyday.


20 posted on 07/19/2008 1:08:05 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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(Zimbabwe’s troubled central bank introduced new $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy)

Coming soon to your Nation with its 9 TRILLION dollar Debt,under funded socialist programs, over taxed citizen workers, and if Obama becomes President more socialist programs, higher taxes, higher oil/gas costs and those new Federal Reserve notes in denominations of 1,000 and 10,000 and 100,000 so the citizens can pay their gas bills and food bills without carrying suitcases around......


24 posted on 07/19/2008 1:22:09 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Got Freedom ? Thank a Veteran...... Want to keep Freedom? Don't vote Obama)
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[The new bills] can only buy four oranges.

Nope, only one grape; it's 1:21PM.

25 posted on 07/19/2008 1:22:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!


27 posted on 07/19/2008 1:23:10 PM PDT by oldleft
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Today’s $100 billion note or tomorrow’s cheap toilet paper? Is there really a difference anymore?


29 posted on 07/19/2008 1:28:27 PM PDT by eclecticEel (men who believe deeply in something, even wrong, usually triumph over men who believe in nothing)
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