Posted on 04/02/2008 7:42:28 PM PDT by Richard Poe
Bwahahahahaha!
Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children’s ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women...women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence.
No. But I want them to be as hard as possible to counterfeit. As it stands right now, North Korea and Iran (among others) are counterfeiting US money to prop up their economies and hurt us.
Personally, I think that is an act of war, and should be dealt with the appropriate fashion, but, until then, we need to make currency as difficult as possible to counterfeit.
Actually, the U.S. government did not begin printing its own banknotes until 1862. Before that, only banks printed banknotes.
I'd estimate about .65 cents.
I just started pumping gas the other day, and sneezed...By the time I looked up, I was past 5 bucks.
I’m all for livening up the greenbacks. All color is cool. Blue, red, yellow, orange and purple The $100 bill should be a combination of the colors used on the $1 bill thru the $50 bill. Live a little.
Very nice ... was the coloring part of the original? It’s very similar to the graded color in some of our “new” bills.
Uh, a fiver does buy more than all that.
It does?
Might I ask where you're purchasing your gas, milk and cigarettes? If you have the address, please provide that too.
The main difference between me and a government design committee is that I recognize that I have limited design ability...
Color is not the problem. I love colorful money, when it is done right.
The problem is that we should not entrust the redesign of our national currency to artists imbued with postmodernist ideology. Their goal is to degrade the dollar, not glorify it. Sooner or later, their malice will work itself into their designs.
It is a question of motivation.
First they came for the twenties...
...and I didn’t say anything because I didn’t have any twenties...
I agree with Poe Richard’s comments. The designs and some of the colors are ugly, and have little to do with anti-counterfeiting tactics. If you like the designs provide another reason...
I use my debit card for nearly all purchases. Cash is so - last century. ;)
LOL — I have to admit it.
The main difference between one bunch of folks who think they are inadequate and another bunch (or an individual in this case) is simply that one bunch gets paid to come up with a decision OR ELSE.
You have absolutely no obligation to decide one way or the other.
Plus, anyone can be an editor.
I buy virtually everything with a credit card.
My debit card nicks me for a transaction fee at every turn.
My credit card gives me miles with every charge.
As long as I pay off my card in full every month, I’m going for the miles!
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