Posted on 10/11/2005 10:19:36 PM PDT by Hadean
An act of economic warfare if there ever was one.
But But But N.Korea is doing something illegal? I am SHOCKED...
I am also RONERY
Why can't we just blow Kim Jong-Il's little ronery head off?
Nuke'em.
I somehow either forgot or never knew that the IRA was an arm of the Communist Party. I remember the Democrats treating him like royalty, a revolutionary Irishman, and allowed him to raise money for his cause here in the US.
I feel certain that NK is not the only counterfeiter of our currency. I often wondered what that did to our determination of money supply a issued by the feds.
That's what the Redcoats did during the Revolutionary war. They had printing presses on the ships. We had our only bout with hyperinflation, and the phrase "not worth a Continental" was coined.
Let the bombing begin in 5 minutes.
I wonder who's printing more money. The feds or the N. Koreans?
Yes, I know about the controls we try to put on the paper and ink and that the presses are of a particular type. I sold to the printing industry for about 20 years. However, that works only here at home. Foreign paper and ink manufacturers can escape such scrutinity if they care to. Some counterfeiting countries could even, and may, have their own paper and ink manufacturers. The same kind of presses (intaglio) that print money are used in other high quality, long run (high quantity) jobs so the purchase of one does not necessarily mean it is used to print money.
Well this has been a problem for years starting with that a hole carter who sold the exact same printing press we use for the us mint to the shah.... guess what happened next?
Surely you jest. We could have done that 50 years ago. We did not have the will. Nor did we have the will in the '70s. We like to be sucker-punched.
If I were POTUS, I'd stamp on these bastards like ants.
Someone has to come along who has the GUTS to exwcute a pre-emptive strike. Something that I'm certain that I, nor my children will ever see...
I'm borrowing the line Reagan used concerning the Soviet Union when he was goofing around before his radio address.
Just give the money to New Orleans!
I'd think a $100 bill would be a tough target because few people use those in shopping, and banks are going to scrutinize them very carefully. A $20 would be much easier to disseminate.
I think we will be needing to use more $100 bills -- and maybe put the $500 back into circulation (a great place for President Reagan's portrait, by the by.)
I was just looking at the receipt from a short trip to the grocery store. The total was for $60; only two items listed were under $1.00, and one of those two was an advertised special price according to the receipt. ;-(
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