Re: Hillary Clinton Gives Driving Advice

On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:11:37 -0700 (PDT), MLOM <grvan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On May 10, 11:25 am, Brent P <tetraethylleadREMOVET...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 2008-05-10, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think they can get rid of pennies and nickels without too much
hardship. Right now we round every price to the nearest $0.01; all we
would have to do would be to round to the nearest $0.1 instead. If
people can handle paying for gasoline priced in units one order of
magnitude smaller than the smallest available currency, then they can
get used to that sort of pricing scheme for ALL products.

How about restoring value to currency instead of inflating it?

Otherwise, eventually the conversations will be about eliminating
one, five, ten, and twenty dollar bills and so on.

The gov't has tried that on the one with issuing the dollar coin (the
SBA in the 70s and the Sac. starting 2k), but those coins will never
catch on as long as there's a circulating paper equivalent and the
printers keep cranking it out. Damned shame, as the coin overall, due
to its durability, is less costly to the gov't than the note.

I don't think that was ehat Brent is referring to.....

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that you are fixing to lose to pay for the house you
can't afford... That's pretty much the recession
tri-fecta..."
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