It's Come to This: GOP Rep Introduces Bill to Block Trillion Dollar Coin Scheme

Townhall.com ^ | January 8, 2013 | Guy Benson

[Kaslin]

I am now certain. There is a dictator in the People's House

[PGalt]

I am now certain. There is a dictator in the People's House

ABSOLUTELY! These POS totalitarians/criminals/progressives/thugs/socialists/collectivists/conmen have to go. Someday there will be wanted signs posted with bounties. DEPOPULATE them from the body politic.

live - free - republic

[no-to-illegals]

and so it continues ... sanity verses insanity. A little side note ... In D.C. insanity has won every time thus far.

[dynachrome]

The fact that this is being seriously debated means the tipping point is long past.

[NEWwoman]

The President must have been watching the Simpsons:

Watch this short video clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2KXzoXhhZE

Mr. Burns has a Trilliion Dollar bill and Fidel Castro takes it.

Trillion dollar coin - Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!

[ecomcon]

I think they should do the trillion dollar coin asap. Lets just get it over with.

[Maceman]

Well, I have long suspected that Obama learned everything he knows about economics from watching Montgomery Burns.

[Fai Mao]

Monty Burns provides jobs and runs a business.

Give me Burns over Obama any day. President Burns would have surplus in the treasury as well as a pack of attack dogs named after the world’s greatest criminals

[98ZJ USMC]

So, what has a better ring to it, United States of Zimbabwe or United States of Weimar? I’m kinda partial to Weimar, but then, I would be racist.

[rocksblues]

As Platinum is going for $1573.50 an ounce I am wondering how big these coins will have to be?

[Flick Lives]

As Platinum is going for $1573.50 an ounce I am wondering how big these coins will have to be?

(1 trillion / 1,573.50 dollars per oz) / 16 oz per lb / 2000 lbs per ton = 19,860 tons

[pepsi_junkie]

I think they should do the trillion dollar coin asap. Lets just get it over with.

Boy I'd love to have a trillion dollar coin in my collection. And I don't even have a collection!

[driftdiver]

I don’t think we’ll see a free election in 4 yrs. It will be vote for Obama or suffer the consequences.

There’s already been an amendment proposed to eliminate the 2 term limit.

[inpajamas]

“Whom the gods will destroy they first make mad”. The world has, for the most part, gone mad.

[Yo-Yo]

I heard an interview on NPR's Marketplace Money with the designer of the California Quarter coin, and when asked who he would put on the face of a theoretical Trillion Dollar coin, he replied “There’s no one person of the American government that I could say could represent it. There is only one person I could say that could represent it, and that person is Charles Ponzi.”

[Sooth2222]

There isn't enough platinum on the planet to cover the debt.

I like the idea of a giant rubber coin. It seems particularly appropriate today.

No matter what they do, the US debt can never be paid off, and they are just printing/creating money -- either with the Fed buying treasuries or minting silly trillion dollar coins.

Somebody working in that administration should read up on the German war debt, the Weimar Republic and hyperinflation. And about how they then elected a decorated war hero who loved animals, was a vegetarian, and was a charismatic speaker.

[inpajamas]

Why not press the coins out of cat crap? The in intrinsic value compared to a trillion dollar platinum coin will only be off by a very very small percentage.

[Kaslin]

That idiot congress critter has one proposed every year since 1997 and it never went out of the committee.

[ri4dc]

A very good name for that coin. “Hey friend, I’ll trade you a ponzi for that bushmaster your pointing at me.”

[ri4dc]

It would have to be at least 99.998 percent pure cat crap.