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|    Bobbie Sellers to Scott Dorsey    |
|    =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CThe_speed_with_    |
|    18 Feb 26 18:28:31    |
   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/18/26 16:05, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:19:46 -0500, Tony Nance wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Should it cost less than 10 cents to make a dime? Less than a dollar   
   >>> to make a dollar bill?   
   >>   
   >> One would hope so. Otherwise the companies making the currency end up   
   >> being richer than the entire countries that are paying them to make   
   >> that currency.   
   >   
   > That's what happened in Zimbabwe.   
   > --scott   
   >   
      
    Once Rome slipped away from the copper standard it began its decline.   
    Should have hired it out to the US Mint. We used to print some other   
   nations currency...   
      
    bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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