Paper money wears out too fast, ask hunter with strippers. Get rid of the ones and fives, replace them with the one and two dollar coins, like Europe. I know, but it is Europe, but every now and then they come up with an idea.
Yeah, a terrible idea, and of course we’ve done the stupid European dollar coin thing before, twice, and ongoing with Prez coins. All total complete failures, and the Mint is holding millions of those mistakes in their warehouse and cranking them out still…hey when our gov adopts a bad idea it doubles down, even when they can’t give ’em away.
We tried that, horrible failure.
Mostly because they made the dollar coin the same size as a quarter…a mistake on many levels.
Visually and psychologically it didn’t have enough “weight” to be a dollar.
Tactile wise, you couldn’t pick it out from quarters without looking.
Utility wise, all the vending machines and toll coin collectors couldn’t tell the difference. Cashiers hated them.
Were they much thicker and/or larger in diameter they might have worked out.
January 12, 2025 at 12:29 am
Shonkin
Not just Europe. Canada came out with the Loony, and then later the Toony. (Fill in your own Warner Bros. cartoon joke here.) They also did away with the penny.
Agreed, a dollar coin ought to have more heft to it, even though the Yankee dollar is just fiddlin’ small change any more.
January 12, 2025 at 12:38 am
Henry
This is a game you can’t win. You make the coins the size they should be, and the vending and gaming industries raise cain. You don’t, and the public raises cain when they spend dollars by mistake instead of quarters (ask Susan B. Anthony). As soon as you float a new coin, the noisy half of the country whines and screams until you agree to stamp some leftist’s face on it that patriots then won’t accept or circulate.
All I can say is that it’s a good thing nobody gives a crap about postage stamps.
January 11, 2025 at 8:36 am
Dread
Biden admin is trying to destroy the country. You can’t name one action or position that helped the country, but every stroke of the pen or word uttered was damaging.
Guess i was a lucky bastard, then. My wife of 46 years and i worked as a team to get thru life’s problems, raise our two sons into men, and love each other as we are. When I had to make a sudden job change, she backed me to the hilt, and it worked out, Praise Yah… our marriage is still good, as we go into our dotage, money’s tightas hell, but together we’re good…
Well I know there are good women out there. I had one of the best.
Then I look at all those protest videos of peace and their a large numbers of girls/women doing a lot of shrieking and assaulting. Plus the large number of women in the last number of administrations that caused huge problems that we are still facing.
Adam Carolla on rebuilding in LA. “We’re going to have to restructure the whole thing because we can’t have nine angry lesbians controlling everything that goes on in Malibu, the Palisades and Santa monica.”
We all pay the price for angry, frustrated women.
Carolla has been hitting ’em outta the park lately. If you haven’t seen him testifying to how he waited 7 years before he was allowed to apply for the fire department. The woman of colour next to him in line applied the day before.
January 11, 2025 at 2:31 pm
DogByte6RER
“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
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But Jill can change Joe.
In fact, I think she has to, because nobody else will anymore.
That’s Depends.
Speaking of changes, lookit this:
“40% of US dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months: Is America repeating the same mistake of 1921 Weimar Germany? [UPDATED]”
Yes
Paper money wears out too fast, ask hunter with strippers. Get rid of the ones and fives, replace them with the one and two dollar coins, like Europe. I know, but it is Europe, but every now and then they come up with an idea.
Yeah, a terrible idea, and of course we’ve done the stupid European dollar coin thing before, twice, and ongoing with Prez coins. All total complete failures, and the Mint is holding millions of those mistakes in their warehouse and cranking them out still…hey when our gov adopts a bad idea it doubles down, even when they can’t give ’em away.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2011/09/14/dollar-coins-piling-baltimore-reserve-bank/15890067007/
We tried that, horrible failure.
Mostly because they made the dollar coin the same size as a quarter…a mistake on many levels.
Visually and psychologically it didn’t have enough “weight” to be a dollar.
Tactile wise, you couldn’t pick it out from quarters without looking.
Utility wise, all the vending machines and toll coin collectors couldn’t tell the difference. Cashiers hated them.
Were they much thicker and/or larger in diameter they might have worked out.
Not just Europe. Canada came out with the Loony, and then later the Toony. (Fill in your own Warner Bros. cartoon joke here.) They also did away with the penny.
Agreed, a dollar coin ought to have more heft to it, even though the Yankee dollar is just fiddlin’ small change any more.
This is a game you can’t win. You make the coins the size they should be, and the vending and gaming industries raise cain. You don’t, and the public raises cain when they spend dollars by mistake instead of quarters (ask Susan B. Anthony). As soon as you float a new coin, the noisy half of the country whines and screams until you agree to stamp some leftist’s face on it that patriots then won’t accept or circulate.
All I can say is that it’s a good thing nobody gives a crap about postage stamps.
Biden admin is trying to destroy the country. You can’t name one action or position that helped the country, but every stroke of the pen or word uttered was damaging.
The biggest problem in marriage is
Women marry men thinking they’ll change
Men marry women thinking they won’t
Exactly true.
Guess i was a lucky bastard, then. My wife of 46 years and i worked as a team to get thru life’s problems, raise our two sons into men, and love each other as we are. When I had to make a sudden job change, she backed me to the hilt, and it worked out, Praise Yah… our marriage is still good, as we go into our dotage, money’s tightas hell, but together we’re good…
Well I know there are good women out there. I had one of the best.
Then I look at all those protest videos of peace and their a large numbers of girls/women doing a lot of shrieking and assaulting. Plus the large number of women in the last number of administrations that caused huge problems that we are still facing.
Adam Carolla on rebuilding in LA. “We’re going to have to restructure the whole thing because we can’t have nine angry lesbians controlling everything that goes on in Malibu, the Palisades and Santa monica.”
We all pay the price for angry, frustrated women.
Carolla has been hitting ’em outta the park lately. If you haven’t seen him testifying to how he waited 7 years before he was allowed to apply for the fire department. The woman of colour next to him in line applied the day before.
“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
― Mark Twain
Reference: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1176591-politicians-are-a-lot-like-diapers-they-should-be-changed
The Susan B. Anthony dollar- – – – -AKA the “Carter Quarter”- – – – -I’ll bet nobody mentioned that little factoid in any of his flowery eulogies!
LOL!