Italian Town Printing Money for Migrants with Commie Icons

BBC ^ | July 15th, 2016 | Arlene Gregorius

[NowApproachingMidnight]

In a far corner of southern Italy, transactions in fake currency are not only accepted by local shopkeepers, they are positively encouraged.

The small Calabrian town of Gioiosa Ionica, population 7,000, is currently home to a group of asylum seekers, who are given the imitation bank notes, or "tickets" as they are known, as part of a voucher system.

The refugees can spend the cash on whatever they like, but only in the town, so that local businesses benefit.

Rather than featuring European architectural gems, they bear the likenesses of a collection of communists and leftist leaders - Che Guevara on the fake €10 note, Hugo Chavez on the €20 and Karl Marx on the €50.

[FredZarguna]

Bonus: the tickets are honored by the local professional girls, so it keeps the sexual assaults of citizens’ daughters to a minimum only dreamt of in Germany and Sweden.

[Rurudyne]

Islamocommiecash?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Reminds me of the old wooden nickle systems.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Raffing out roud!

[clearcarbon]

"Italian Town Printing Money for Migrants with Commie Icons"

They seem like appropriate fake icons to embellish fake money that is not earned and worth little or nothing outside its own borders. What denomination is obama on?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Some day these might be valuable to numismatists, though.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Zero’s on the $20,000,000,000,000 Bill.

[fireman15]

And the mayor says, “He hasn’t just done it for the money, but also to bring an experience of multiculturalism to the local youngsters.”

How wonderful for the “local youngsters”. They get to interact with the scum of the earth.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They want to worship commies, I guess this is as close as they can get.

[VanShuyten]

“The small Calabrian town of Gioiosa Ionica...”

That’s where the Godfather came from, right?

[jessduntno]

“Zero’s on the $20,000,000,000,000 Bill.”

Given some of his past history, I was guessing he would be on the $3 bill. That might be a little queer, though.

[Arthur McGowan]

The local businesses “benefit”?

By selling actual goods to people in exchange for fake money?

It’s appropriate that this Monopoly money is decorated with images of famous economic illiterates.

[PGalt]

Zero’s on the $20,000,000,000,000 Bill.

Nicely done, fieldmarshaldj. I see what you did there. : )

http://www.usdebtclock.org

Marxists, Mohammedans, money.

What’s in your wallet?

[moovova]

"That’s where the Godfather came from, right?"

Maybe here instead...?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corleone

[COBOL2Java]

Some day these might be valuable to numismatists, though.

Without a doubt. I'd love to have one of each to add to my collection.

[stylin19a]

"The town hall receives €35 (£29; $39) per asylum seeker per day from the central government in Rome."

"The refugee services pay the shopkeepers in real euros when the cash arrives."

[COBOL2Java]

Given some of his past history, I was guessing he would be on the $3 bill. That might be a little queer, though.

Right now, that's Hillary...

Actually come to think of it, this bill's more appropriate for O'HaHa:

[Enchante]

I liked the old Lira, not with commie icons ofc, but when the exchange rate was 880 Lira to the dollar way back when it felt like spending play money... thousands of Lira for a gelato, mmmmmm.....

[Lion Den Dan]

So how does the shop keeper convert the bogus money into real money so he can pay bills and buy more merchandise?