View Full Version : obama to replace washington on dollar bill?
it may sound crazy, but if you look at some of these new designs for our currency, it could happen.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/721294
then click on the photos link at the bottom.
as a friend of mine said, if cap and trade pass, at least we can burn them for heat.
68Charger
09-21-2010, 12:20
F'ing narcissist would be all over the idea
Byte Stryke
09-21-2010, 12:24
Our Country was founded by our four fathers! Why change what is already working....oh wait our ecomony sucks right now. Why spend more money to make new money when people don't have the money to spend! How about revamping congress and our government instead!!!!
I Saw this comment following that article and blew Mountain Dew out of my nose.
Is this the Generation that will be taking care of me when I am old and decrepit?
[Stick]
ChunkyMonkey
09-21-2010, 12:27
Too euro trashy !
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Joeshwa24/tactical_facepalm.jpg
"It could happen..." well I guess technically you are correct, it's within the realm of physical possibility. It doesn't involve faeries or magic dust or believing in things which cannot be proven. Is it going to happen? No.
What's with the rash of outright stupid on the site lately? Someone believing a spoof of Tea Party candidates is legit, someone thinking The Onion is legit, thinking that Obama is going to replace Washington on the $1 bill.
Look, people, just because something is on the internets, doesn't make it true. There are plenty of places on these here intertubes that specialize in finding out what's true, and citing their sources so that you can double check them.
Edit: I do like the wording on this concept art:
http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/10712/slide_10712_141131_large.jpg?1285094140942
H.
68Charger
09-21-2010, 12:36
Is this the Generation that WON'T be taking care of me when I am old and decrepit?
fixed it for you- that's what the death panels are for...
and just for the record, I don't believe they'll put Obama on a bill anytime soon- (or ever) there is a reason one slang for bills is "dead presidents"
but I still stand by my statement... he'd just as soon give back his Nobel prize as deny anyone the 'pleasure' of honoring him...
ghettodub
09-21-2010, 12:46
Those are just designers coming up with new ideas for money, nothing official. Damn good designs at that, as that's what I do for a living.
I do think we should do something different with our money. Colour and size differences, like in Canada, etc, is pretty helpful in my own experience.
Daniel_187
09-21-2010, 12:58
if they put zeros face on it, I will shave my hairy man legs and move to france(where only women have hairy legs)
ronaldrwl
09-21-2010, 13:02
The way they're spending and printing money, it'll be as worthless as Confederate money soon.
everyone turn your sarcasm meters on. i don't actually think it will replace washington, it was made in jest. however, i do find it strange to put even make a design with him on it. imagine if people had done that with bush
however, i do find it strange to put even make a design with him on it. imagine if people had done that with bush
Nothing strange there really: if they'd run the competition a couple of years earlier, people might have put President Bush on one of the bills.
everyone turn your sarcasm meters on. i don't actually think it will replace washington, it was made in jest. however, i do find it strange to put even make a design with him on it. imagine if people had done that with bush
Well I totally missed the sarcasm. I guess I notice in your link now that it refers to HuffPo, and those guys couldn't find their ass with both hands and a map.
http://gawker.com/5319855/huffington-post-serves-up-hoax-on-front-page
H.
ghettodub
09-21-2010, 13:27
I think it's funny that anyone thought this was real, considering it's a design contest and nothing official. That money could have had Flava Flav on it though, that would have been sweet.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs635.snc4/59509_1597677823247_1275044404_1615653_7440796_n.j pg
... it didn't work.... lol
I didn't know they sold crack out of vending machines these days
i seriously thought flava flav was 80 years old when i saw him for the first time
ChunkyMonkey
09-21-2010, 17:01
How did this become an argument? Does the FED have any right over FED RESERVE notes?
I don't see them changing it. maybe the look for security features but it will still contain the same faces. maybe they should make a .02 piece and put obamas face on it, then I could throw them away each time I got one because his .02 aint worth shit to me[Coffee]
Well, one had slaves and one is making us slaves - the shoe fits.
theGinsue
09-21-2010, 20:14
Too euro trashy !
When I read this article a couple of days ago I this ^^ was exactly my initial thought. The article indicates that this particular series of options was designed by someone from the UK.
No, I don't think Obama will be on any of our currency now or in the future (I believe that Jimmy Carter has a better chance).
The point is that we really don't need to continue to change our currency simply for the sake of changing our currency. Personally, I can't stand the changes that have been made to either the paper or the coin currency over the last several years.
Our currency is distinctive. Anyone who has ever seen it knows immediately that it is AMERICAN currency, not Euro, Chinese, Mexican, or Canadian. Perhaps we should quit trying to blend in with teh rest of the world and consider maintaining some of our own unique heritage.
The point is that we really don't need to continue to change our currency simply for the sake of changing our currency.
That's not the reason for changing it, security is. It's far too easy to counterfeit US currency. There are a huge variety of considerations when it comes to bother paper currency and coin. For example, if the notes are of different sizes, then a blind person can tell how much cash they're handling.
I like the new Australian plastic money. Doesn't get ruined in the washing machine, and the transparent windows with holograms haven't (yet) been counterfeited (so they say...)
H.
That's not the reason for changing it, security is. It's far too easy to counterfeit US currency. There are a huge variety of considerations when it comes to bother paper currency and coin. For example, if the notes are of different sizes, then a blind person can tell how much cash they're handling.
I like the new Australian plastic money. Doesn't get ruined in the washing machine, and the transparent windows with holograms haven't (yet) been counterfeited (so they say...)
H.
I love how the whole country has to change so that .03% can be more comfy.
Better solution: When we catch foreign governments printing our money we use the neutron bomb on them!
nontactical
09-21-2010, 21:26
When Uncle O takes them all away to pay for health care for illegals and vacations for Aunty 'Chelle, will you really give a sh!t who's face is on it?
Having a living person on our money would be bad luck.
Bills are for dead presidents.
EDIT: SOmeone is bound to say "but but franklin was never president and he's on the 100!" I say don't mess with tradition. If it must be a president then Reagan can take is place.
"Man, I dropped some Rons at the strip club last night!"
The washer doesn't ruin dollars!
That's not the reason for changing it, security is. It's far too easy to counterfeit US currency. There are a huge variety of considerations when it comes to bother paper currency and coin. For example, if the notes are of different sizes, then a blind person can tell how much cash they're handling.
I like the new Australian plastic money. Doesn't get ruined in the washing machine, and the transparent windows with holograms haven't (yet) been counterfeited (so they say...)
H.
This reminds me of that US astronaut pen vs. USSR pencil thing, blind people just have their money folded in different angles and shapes (by the bank or a friend I suppose) which tells them which bill is which. Solutions to problems that don't exist aren't solutions.
I love how the whole country has to change so that .03% can be more comfy.
Better solution: When we catch foreign governments printing our money we use the neutron bomb on them!
The whole country has to change because, as you say, both foreign governments and rank amateurs can make passable counterfeits. So when you've got to make changes to a system, you might as well improve it to work better for the 1.3 million (0.3%) blind Americans.
As for setting off a huge EMP blast over a foreign power, the problem is proving it. We suspect DPRK has the ability to print perfect Franklins, but we haven't been able to prove it. Besides, they're already living in the stone age.
H.
Byte Stryke
09-21-2010, 23:49
The whole country has to change because, as you say, both foreign governments and rank amateurs can make passable counterfeits. So when you've got to make changes to a system, you might as well improve it to work better for the 1.3 million (0.3%) blind Americans.
As for setting off a huge EMP blast over a foreign power, the problem is proving it. We suspect DPRK has the ability to print perfect Franklins, but we haven't been able to prove it. Besides, they're already living in the stone age.
H.
Bomb them into the Precambrian Age?
[ROFL1]
Bitter Clinger
09-22-2010, 02:42
In this economy why would yoou want to make the dollar worth less?[ROFL2]
I kill me somtimes!
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