Obviously you need one of these:
Have a most excellent evening!
Posted on 11/27/2006 11:02:39 AM PST by News Hunter
"In God We Trust," the official national motto since 1956 and a familiar sight on U.S. coins and currency, will be hard to find on the new presidential dollar coins scheduled for release to the public Feb. 15, 2007.
The new gold-colored dollar pieces, featuring images of U.S. presidents, will move the inscription from the face of the coin to the thin edge, along with the year and the previous national motto, "E Pluribus Unum," Latin for "Out of Many, One."
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I bleeive I can fly
I berleive I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
HRC - "Don't trust this coin as far as you can throw it!"
Me too, but I hate it when i run out of beer and can't find my car.
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Ah, so you're a moral relativist.
Morals are objective, they're the same no matter where you are or what culture you're in.
Again my suggestion of education is applied.
I can throw a lot more at you but to be short (everyone is shooting at me on this thread) I'll just say look up natural rights.
Obviously you need one of these:
Have a most excellent evening!
Ask half the christians on this board and they'll agree with me, not on the source of morals but the fact that they are objective.
I had one, but left it in the car! DOH!
John F. Kennedy's United States Notes would have been as you described, an asset to the owner but not a liability to anyone else. Those notes were taken from circulation following his death because of their debt free nature. They were spent, not lent, into circulation. Emitted by the US government they yielded no profits for the central bank, which is in the business of extending credit to the nation.
The economy could run just as well with United States Notes. There would be little inflation if any and no national debt.
The United States Notes were replaced by Federal Reserve Notes which are lent, not spent, into circulation, and do provide profits for the private central bank. The US government borrows more than it takes in and spends it all (what it borrows and takes in) on all its expenditures.
What it borrows stays on the books as interest bearing debt obligations of the taxpayers but once the money gets out in the economy, the rest of us use it as currency for business purposes. To us it behaves much like any other money. We see it as an asset when it is ours and that is just as well.
Yet, the U.S. Government and the American taxpayers are on the hook for borrowed money that just gets rolled over year after year. It is comparable to those interest-only loans that some homedebtors have gotten recently. What does that money look like? Federal Reserve Notes currency and the bits in the banks' computers that keep track of deposits. It is debt and to increase it increases only indebtedness.
I don't agree that there is any such thing as "outside money" unless the money has been sent to Mexico by an illegal to help mom and his 10 siblings. This is one of the ways inflation is exported. However, $20 in my pocket or parked at the bank, hardly any difference to immediate circumstances.
Does arbitrarily increasing currency really raise national wealth? If it did we could make ourselves rich by printing money and giving it to everyone. No, prices would go up to account for the cheapening of money and though all prices and salaries would nominally be more, we wouldn't feel any richer. In 1999 my house went for 189,000. Today, $400,000. Same house. No more space, no more bedrooms than before, no more bathrooms than before. It takes more credits to buy it because the credits are all worth a fraction of what they were in 1999.
The best way to increase national real wealth is not to play with numbers, or manipulate currencies, but to stop punishing risk taking entrepreneurs with high taxes and unreasonable regulations.
Respectfully.
Aw com'on peopel!
Trust. If you live in a country that fears God and aspires to be good, then you can trust that the government will try to do the right thing. It is the Judeo-Christian belief in a single diety that gave us this country. I think that there are very few arguments that can be sustained that this is not the case. We are a country with a covernment that is not above God. The ideal is that being below God, and respectful of God, we would not as a nation do anything to offend God, including letting the value of currency be lost. Have you ever heard the phrase, "full faith and credit of the United States Government?" Where are you going to get the faith in the US Government if you don't have faith in God, and a common God at that?
Indeed, rights don't come from anything. A right is something I can exercise as long as it does not infringe upon another's rights. There is nothing "given" to me to allow me to do this. I do not need God's or the state's permission. Privileges can be bestowed, but rights simply are.
When did I ever make any claim to the contrary. You made an assumption, and everyone should know what happens when you do that. And, changing the subject from virtures you make up to morals decided upon by societal or cultural convention doesn't change my earlier comments.
Thank you for this info. I think it sounds kind of cool and look forward to seeing the new look.
Hardly kneejerk and they very much ARE hiding IGWT. This is just the next insidious step to removing it all together!Being a Christian numismatist and actually knowing something about coins, just because it's "harder to make" certainly doesn't mean that it is or isn't being hidden from view! And it won't necessarily be there forvever either. The govt. has made incuse inscriptions on coins before, both on the edges and on the obverse, and wear and tear can very much remove them! And while it may be easy for you to read it, most people will hardly even notice the edge of a coin. PARTICULARLY if it's incused! Gosh, they can't even distinguish between dollars and quarters as it is with the Susie B's and the new Sacs!!!
Furtheromore, when a coin is displayed in coin flips or in books, the edge isn't even seen at all! THAT qualifies as hiding it in most people's books.
Why is it that whenever a Christian stands up for his or her rights, it's almost always considered a "kneejerk reaction" anyway!?
This is a non-story story.
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