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To: MadIvan

This sounds like the hyperinflation that happened before Hitler came into power. People would take a wheelbarrow load of Marks to the market to buy a loaf of bread.

This lead to Hitler's rise to power. They better watch out that this doesn't happen in Zimbabwe. Oh, wait, they already have Hitler in power. Now what they gonna do


8 posted on 06/01/2006 12:33:44 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
This sounds like the hyperinflation that happened before Hitler came into power.

Or under Lenin from 1918-1920, when the government ended up having to sell some of the gold "inherited" from the Tsar's treasure in order to buy ink from the West...so it could print up more money.

28 posted on 06/01/2006 2:14:43 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: gleeaikin
Oh, wait, they already have Hitler in power. Now what they gonna do

The smart ones would immediately put a bullet in his head.

45 posted on 06/01/2006 5:40:32 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: gleeaikin
People would take a wheelbarrow load of Marks to the market to buy a loaf of bread. I read somewhere that when people took the wheelbarrows full of money to the store, the would come back, find the money on the sidewalk and the wheelbarrow stolen.
47 posted on 06/01/2006 6:33:50 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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