Posted on 02/11/2007 3:01:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
Washington looks pissed in that engraving.
I refuse to use or accept the new politically correct coin for this reason -- I'll ask the cashier instead for a dollar bill.
I guess replacing "One Dollar" with "$1" makes is easier for those illegals who don't read English to use? What a joke -- it looks like a casino token.
I love dollar coins. They're very convenient, like at vending machines and at the bar.
They won't release it in my pocket!
I refused to accept the last two for change and will do the same for this one.
The Pound worked fine in Britain, it was the 2p that was a pain.
I'm not sure they have to oblige you.
I think the gold coloring is a visual clue to try to overcome the horrible mistake they made with the SBA being hardly different in size from a quarter.
Because *we* don't sign the bureaucrats paychecks.
Some fear that getting rid of the penny will cause product prices to be rounded up, perhaps increasing inflation.
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SaaaayyyyyyyyWhaaaaaaattttttt?
No thanks. I like my coinage BOLD, not Politically Correct and hidden out of the way!
For this action, Williams was awarded the Medal of Honor (shown above being presented by President Lyndon Johnson), which he added to his previous decorations: a Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and three Purple Hearts (among others). DDG-95, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was christened the John Elliot Williams on 28 June 2003.
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Let's name a coin after this brave man who recently had a destroyer named after him. This man lived as John Kerry only wanted the world to think he lived.
You mean the public hated this?
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What do you expect? Look at the size of it!!! You can't even put it in your pocket!!! ;-)
I use a money clip; can peal off what ever I need quickly, and can have 20 dollar bills in my pocket. I would not like to have 20 one dollar coins in my pocket.
I won't use this coin, and will reject it if given to me in change.
Yep, and you're $20,000 automobile will now cost you $25,000.
They do it stupidly is the only reason it hasn't worked. The dollar coins are ALWAYS the size of a quarter, and the biggest objection is that people accidentally spend them as quarters. Make it bigger than a quarter and distinctive, and it will work. Of course, you'd also have to stop printing the dollar bill.
For the most part, we are a cashless society. Something like 95% of all money in the US doesn't exist, except as numbers in a computer. Think about it. How much of the last car or house you bought involved any actual cash? How much of your paycheck do you actually see in cash?
Paper money has a way of coming out of the pocket when pulling out keys or loose change. I quit putting paper money in my pockets long ago. I cant afford to throw away money.
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