Talking points if you were to write an editorial for your local paper about circulating the $1 coin
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What would you say in an editorial in your local paper to encourage the readers to acquire and then use the new $1 Presidential coins?
The $500 million annual savings over the note?
The need to retire the note?
The weight? (1 oz for 3 coins) I believe I read some where the average American carries 3 $1 bills at one time.
What would you write?
And then, why don't you just sit down and do it for your local paper?
The $500 million annual savings over the note?
The need to retire the note?
The weight? (1 oz for 3 coins) I believe I read some where the average American carries 3 $1 bills at one time.
What would you write?
And then, why don't you just sit down and do it for your local paper?
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<< <i>Better yet whyt don't we all come up with a good article and submit it to all of our local papers, under a ficticious name like Silence Dogood?!?
Ol' Ben's smiling at that. "Ah, they remember after all these years."
<< <i>Because, it's politics that are keeping the $1 bill. When Ted Kennedy and John Kerry stop listening to the paper company in their state maybe the $1 bill will go away. Until then people would rather have the bill and Mass want the paper business from the treasury. >>
Actually, that'd make a pretty good editorial.
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<< <i>Because, it's politics that are keeping the $1 bill. When Ted Kennedy and John Kerry stop listening to the paper company in their state maybe the $1 bill will go away. Until then people would rather have the bill and Mass want the paper business from the treasury. >>
Actually, that'd make a pretty good editorial.
Would we get rid of the dollar bill if there was a Republican president and a Republican governor of Massachusetts?
Ed. S.
(EJS)
everybody hates him- nobody would want the bills
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<< <i>Because, it's politics that are keeping the $1 bill. When Ted Kennedy and John Kerry stop listening to the paper company in their state maybe the $1 bill will go away. Until then people would rather have the bill and Mass want the paper business from the treasury. >>
It's actually a bipartisan effort to keep the the ragbuck alive. Trent Lott signed on to save the ragbuck because his constituency includes cotton farmers.
-- Cent smallest coin since 1857, but then it was worth XX of todays cents
-- Resultant need to retire the 1 cent coin and the $1 FRN
- Monetary Savings to US Gov't
- Ease for vending/mass transit
- Historical Value/Lessons
- Euro Example... 5 Euro ($6.55) smallest note, 1 and 2 ($1.31 & $2.62) Euro coins
Finish with strong encouragement to ask for them at banks and to spend them routinely.
<< <i>The $500 million annual savings over the note? >>
How about something like: 300 million people in the US, assume half are tax payers which means it would cost $3.33 per year per taxpayer to keep the ragbuck alive. Then ask if the ragbuck was worth $3.33 of convenience per year. If it's too expensive then people would revolt en masse and make it a national issue in the next Presidential elections
If this ever catches on like our gov't wants, I will invest in stocks that make coin purses!
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
<< <i>Plus the girl at the expresso stand gave me a big smile when I paid with them!!! >>
Maybe she was expelling a toning gas at that precise moment?
But cereal, shirley cashiers cannot be pleased. Where are they putting these in the registers? Many don't even have slots for halves.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
<< <i>Just put George Bush on the Dollar bill
everybody hates him- nobody would want the bills >>
Everybody does?
I guess we can't just keep politics and little sarcastic snipes out of the coin forum, eh?
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
-Huge taxpayers savings for using the $1.00 coin instead of the bill.
-Coin last about 30 years. The bill about 14 months.
-The Dollar coin takes the place of four quarters or a whole lot of other change in your pocket. Don't let them compare the dollar coin to just one quarter.
-The Dollar coin is lighter than any combination of coins in your pocket.
-Vending machines made after1979 are required to accept the dollar coin. The vending company just needs to "flip the internal switch" to make it work.
-Most of the new parking meters downtown accept the dollar coin.
-Almost all other countries shelved their one dollar bill so taxpayer dollars would not be wasted. Many did it years ago.
-You would never need more than one or two dollar coins in your pocket or purse because the $2.00 bill could be used instead, if printed in adequate numbers.
-Banks should do more to make the dollar coins available to their customers. Banks branches should always order them and have them on hand just like quarters.
Does that help you?
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Does that help you?
Very nice, Thanks!
everybody hates him- nobody would want the bills>>
If everybody hates him how did he get elected to office twice
2000 George W. Bush 50,456,002
Albert A. Gore 50,999,897
2004 George W. Bush 62,028,285
John F. Kerry 59,028,109
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