I *MUST* have those new dollar coins!

[WillParkinson]

REFUSE NEW COINS


This simple action will make a strong statement.

Please help do this.. Refuse to accept these when they are handed to you.

I received one from the Post Office as change and I asked for a dollar bill instead.

The lady just smiled and said 'way to go' , so she had read this e -mail.

Please help out...our world is in enough trouble without this too!!!!!


U.S.Government to Release New Dollar Coins

You guessed it
'IN GOD WE TRUST' IS GONE!!!
If ever there was a reason to boycott something, THIS IS IT!!!!

DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW DOLLAR COINS AS CHANGE

Together we can force them out of circulation..

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The woman who sent this is kind and caring, but this is just silly. I need to get me some of those new coins!

[hippywife]

1. Another urban myth

being circulated by the crazies! :eyes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp

[DainBramaged]

21. I got one in my pocket it was given as change as a quarter

and I have not used it. Sorta like a good luck charm, yeah. And right there on the edge, In God we Trust, all others Pay Cash.

[Moondog]

2. Weird.

I got a new dollar coin in change today. Looks like one of those Sacagawea dollars - a yellowish color, slightly larger than a quarter. Anyway, the one I got, on the obverse has a bust of a man. Around the top edge it says "John Tyler" and in much smaller print around the bottom edge it says "In God We Trust 10th President 1841-1845". The reverse has a bust of the Statue of Liberty, $ 1, and around the edge it says "United States of America". Incised into the edge of the coin is "E Pluribus Unum" followed by ten five pointed stars followed by "2009" and "P" (the mint mark) and three more five pointed stars.

In other words, either these jerks can't read, or they need a magnifying glass (the In God We Trust language is pretty small). Assholes.

[surrealAmerican]

3. That's an old one.

It's from the last "new" dollar coins that had 'IN GOD WE TRUST' inscribed along the edge, where some people didn't notice it.

It's not a very good motto for currency, if you think about it, even if you are a believer.

[quakerboy]

6. Whatever. We all know that Money is the root of all

righteousness. This I know, for my televangelist told me so.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. You always know these things are lies because of two things: 1) it came from a republican,

and 2) there's always some kind of official government person who agrees with the statement in the email who is encountered in some miraculous way. In this case, the person gets the email, and the first encounter with anyone that gives the new dollar is a post office (government) employee who totally agrees with whatever idiotic bullshit is being lied about in the email.

Rightwingers have no sense of how to write or do things, so they totally overdo it.

I remember one I got a year or two ago about a boy who was apparently picked up out of a crashed car by an angel. But that wasn't enough - he had to be a little boy (7 or 8), his mom was single, and they were on the way to the grandparents. But, even that wasn't enough: it was Christmas Eve, it was bad weather, they were out late because she had to work her second or third job to buy Christmas presents, they were on the way to the grandparents SO THEY COULD GO TO CHURCH, and she was speeding because the REAL reason she was working was because her boss was an atheist and wanted to punish her for believing in Jesus.

:eyes:

[Kali]

9. and there are at least three huge bands of e-mail addresses

at the top and the message repeats several times due to somebody's defective forwarding function

:puke:

[kentauros]

10. More like unclear on the concept of "editing" before forwarding

Way back in the days of dialup and mailing lists, I started a flame war when I got pissed at all of the "me too!" emails in long threads where they did no editing of the answered email and ended up with 300k per email! I guess the ones that lashed out at me didn't like me pointing out their stupidity :P

[kentauros]

5. It is quite silly, whether for their "reason" or not.

Coins last upwards of 30 years or more. Paper bills last at best 18 months.

I would love to see this country do as other countries have and dump the dollar bill altogether. I had to get local currency when I went to New Zealand this past Spring and was impressed with their methods of both bills and coins. The bills start at $5, but I don't know what the largest is above $100. I only used fives, tens, twenties and fifties as I wanted bills easier to break. It's also made out of some kind of plastic. You couldn't tear it without biting into an edge, or so I would assume. Tough stuff! :) Plus, the bills were in successive sizes and different colors as you went up in denomination. Stop making sense, New Zealand!

Now, the coinage impressed me the most. For a country of only 4 million people, they have simply eliminated the penny and the nickel. I don't care if Americans throw a fit and hoard their electroplated zinc coins, but we should do the same. Most money is electronic anymore anyway, so if we must use physical forms, let's use the NZ model. Their coins are: 10, 20, 50, $1 and $2. Canada has "loonies" and "two-nies"; we could two ;)

[quakerboy]

7. Darn Queen worshiping monarchists

always having sensible monetary systems and worshiping the queen and all that...

You forget a key point in your hate of pennies. How are places supposed to make the price look smaller by marking things 5.99 instead of $6.00 if we get rid of pennies? Deception is the whole basis for our economy. How dare you attack it. Have you no patriotism?

[kentauros]

8. No, I don't have any patriotism

:P
I just have a stronger sense of sensibility ;)
I would rather go into a store and not have to do a running total and then calculate the added taxes as I wait in line. Easier to just factor all of that into the price and be done with it.

By the way, WalMart deflates your argument all the time by pricing things to end in 5's

[quakerboy]

11. But you want to get rid of nickels too

Have you no shame? To nick Walmart like that? How can you call yourself American...


Now.. I think that sales tax is crap. Which is one of many reasons Oregon suites me well. But if a place is bound and determined to have a sales tax, I think its only reasonable to expect it to be included in the price on the sticker, rather than a later addition.

[kentauros]

12. Actually, I call myself a Native Terran.

I still need to design a bumpersticker that says that. I wonder how many would get it and how many would mistake it for "terrorist"

I don't have a problem with sales tax as it eliminates the need for state income taxes and an additional headache every year. Just put it in the price of things and everyone would be happy :)

And when was the last time you could buy anything for a nickel?

[quakerboy]

14. Nickels are of the devil

But I like pennies. Ive found a few cool old ones over the years.

[kentauros]

15. Sure, I see old coins, too.

I know I've gotten Canadian pennies and peso coins, but no other countries' coinage. That form of collecting will remain as well as the kind that collects the newly minted variety, like all those state coins they did :)

[quakerboy]

31. I recently got a Panamanian centismo

on edit, have you seen the new us penny?

[kentauros]

32. Oh, that's cool!

:)

And I didn't know they were redesigning anything but the dollar coins. I guess that means it'll be quite a while before they dump the penny and/or the nickel. I guess I'll have to mosey on over to the Treasury site and have a looksee :)

[Lionel Mandrake]

23. We should have gotten rid of pennies and nickels long ago.

Three cheers for New Zealand.

I haven't carried pennies or nickels in years. I don't accept them as change. I tell the person at the cash register to keep them, or give them to the next customer, or donate them to charity.

The dime is the smallest physical coin and IMO should also be the smallest denomination. The next size up should be a half-dollar, not a quarter. Dollar coins are easily confused with quarters. Once quarters are gone, the dollar coin would make more sense (no pun intended).

[Brother Buzz]

30. The nickel today is not what it used to be ten years ago.

Well, I'll go further than that. I'll get off at the depot. The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near a hundred years' daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime!

[kentauros]

35. Was that from one of the movies or his stand-up material?

Either way, typical of his way of thinking. I love Marx! :P

[Brother Buzz]

36. Animal Crackers

I wish he had included it on 'An Evening With Groucho'

[wickerwoman]

28. But then how could Americans price things at $3.99

so that morons would think it cost $3 instead of $4. I swear this is why America business will never allow the penny to be eliminated. How can you pinch them if they don't exist anymore?

[kentauros]

34. The phrase "pinching pennies" will still be there, no matter what.

And as I mentioned upthread, WalMart routinely prices things by the nickel or even odd-cent, like $3.84. Obviously, they're not hurting by not pricing to the 99-cent margin ;)

[Fearless]

13. I'm also pretty sure you can't legally refuse "legal tender for all debts public and private"

But hey, it's not like the court system is clogged up by idiots and BS lawsuits... :eyes:

[baldguy]

16. When they put out the Reagan dollar, I'll face a dilemma.

Do I refuse to accept them? Or do I get as many as I can & deface every one?

[WillParkinson]

26. You take them and donate them to Gay Charities!

Perhaps Mr. Reagan will finally do something good.

[Burma Jones]

17. It's just another way for the Fucking Morons to assert their right to be Fucking Morons

There is a huge chunk of our beloved fellow countrymen/women that do not have much education, do not have much knowledge and are seeing their picayune "(barely) superior by birthright" position in this nation fade quickly away. They are Morons and have no place in a knowledge economy.....unless it's as cannon fodder

[HopeHoops]

18. I use them constantly - I would be perfectly happy to see one dollar bills go away.

Pennies can go too. They cost more to produce than they are worth in face value.

[whistler162]

19. For what they will go for on the Numismatic market

in the future I want 30 or 40 of them.

Now on ebay for at least $30 per.

IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT.

Even though the coin was released in 2007.

[velvet]

20. gratuitous pic of my favourite Oz coin

Innit sweet?

[WillParkinson]

25. Oh neat...

I collect coins and have never seen that one.

[kentauros]

33. I like that one, too :)

Here's my NZ coin set:

[krispos42]

22. I'm still pissed...

...because they don't have the moon landing on the back.

[WillParkinson]

24. Um....

That's because the moon landing was faked.

Helloooooo? ;-)

[krispos42]

29. BUT IT WAS STILL OUR GREATEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT!!!

No CGI, man, that's SOMETHING!!! Not even Hollywood could launch all those rockets up into orbit to form the background and backstory for the Apollo project!

While some idiot in California is glueing sparklers to the back of a plastic model dangling in front of a dropcloth those NASA guys were making big-ass props and launching them into orbit!!!



:crazy: :tinfoilhat:

[Deep13]

27. Wow, the LORD undermined by the Federal mint.

Perhaps He is not so godly after all.

NB: I know the story is false.