Posted on 09/16/2018 8:41:23 AM PDT by rlmorel
I found a five dollar bill recently that was unusual, and put it aside only to forget about it and re-discover it today.
The bill is stamped both sides as shown below:
Imagine my surprise when I went to the website The Stamp Stampede-About Us and looked at the "About Us" section only to see hard-corps radical leftists there, headed by Ben Cohen of "Ben and Jerry's" who is known to all of us enough to make many of us (including me) swear off the ice cream brand forever. Further examination of their partners showed the following, which are also known to many of us:
It seems like these organizations understand fully how money is used to their advantage in politics...is this the case where they simply DO believe it is Conservatives and not Leftists that use money in this fashion to sway elections? (I believe there is a possibility it happens on both sides, but is endemic on the Left, but minuscule and not generally endorsed by anyone on the Conservative side.
I can't believe they would use the results of any data gathered via their website if anyone went there (as I did) with the intention of seeing what it was, and entering data on where the bill was obtained (I didn't). If honest (it isn't) it would likely show Leftist malfeasance, and they must know this.
Here is their explanation:
"...Politicians don’t do what voters want. They do what big donors want. Sen. John McCain calls it “legalized bribery.” Big money from special interests and corporations pervert our laws. It’s why our tax code is riddled with loopholes benefiting corporations and the wealthy (that results in everyone else paying more taxes), it’s why our energy policy favors big oil, it’s why our prescription drugs are overpriced, it’s why student debt is so high, and why our healthcare policy lags so far behind other developed countries.
Thanks to terrible Supreme Court rulings such as Citizens United, politicians rely more and more on big money to win elections. And when our lawmakers arrive in Washington, too often, they represent the donors and our laws reflect the special interest. Not their voters and not the public interest.
Don’t take our word for it. A study by professors at Princeton and Northwestern revealed that our representatives are more likely to pass laws that a minority of wealthy people want than what the majority of voters want.
We need to win the 28th Amendment to U.S. Constitution to overturn Citizens United and common sense reforms such as robust public financing for all elections, a ban on corporations and unions from spending money to influence elections, and strict limits on campaign contributions..."
My question is, what do Freepers make of this? What do you think their purpose is here, other than "getting money out of politics" in this fashion since that can only negatively impact the Left is the data were honestly analzyed.
Or, is this simply a method to look at the prevalence of stamping political messages on money to get an idea of where to focus their efforts?
I mark $20 bills with ‘Trump Lives Here’ and a arrow to the White House image
I checked my bills — no such markings. So I’m good to go!!!!
Isn’t there some prohibition on defacing currency?
ROTF!
Five-dollar bills? That's street money, passed around in inner-city polling places.
Who marks these bills? And distributes them where? Who reports having found them? So many variables, so many ways to gin up fake news...
Learned to do that here at FR.
It’s an ad.
Instead of posting a billboard, someone stamped cash to advertise their website.
The left wing context is that they want unions and nutcase billionaires to be able to throw money at causes but not companies because business is evil in their mind. Hence the citizens united reference.
They posit that only cronyism with a company is bad for the country. They have no problem imposing their flavor of cronyism on us.
There was/is an annual homo festival held in Pensacola and the promoters ask everyone to stamp their paper money with some pink symbol to let people know how much queer money is spent there.
Wife worked at a bank there then and they were told to isolate and bag the marked bills as they came in. Feds picked ‘em up and incinerated them, so they never got much circulation.
[Sidebar] Back in the ‘60s, the budding North South Skirmish Assn. asked members to spend silver dollars for the same reason. A couple of the guys happened to be in Las Vegas and said they got a $1,000 bag and were up until 2 a.m searching the coins for “CC” mintmarks. Oh, the Good Ole Days.
I’d send it to Ted Cruz.
Thanks for the replies-I was curious. You are supposed to go to the site and mark where you got the bill, so...I guess it may have just been advertising with a twist to get some geographical info.
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