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   ZerkonXXXX to Shrikeback   
   Re: News from the Future: The Incredible   
   20 Oct 09 10:48:20   
   
   e2450c0e   
   XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.politics, talk.politics.guns   
   From: Z@erkonx.net   
      
   On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:10:34 -0700, Shrikeback wrote:   
      
   > Associated Press, February 14, 2012:   
   >   
   > The Treasury announced today another move to reduce the cost of printing   
   > currency.  Timothy Geithner said that the old postage stamp-sized fifty   
   > dollar bills introduced last year are projected to cost more to print   
   > than they are worth by April, so the Treasury will begin to print   
   > hundred dollar bills on 1/4" squares sold in ten by ten sheets.   
   > "They'll even be printed with Grateful Dead album covers, and with   
   > vintage Mr. Natural images! These are bound to be collectors items for   
   > every baby boomer!  Order now!"   
   >   
   > Giethner also responded to a recent projection made with economic   
   > climate modeling software running on every iPhone in the country in   
   > parallel that the dollar would have a negative value by 2013.  "That's a   
   > good thing!  If the dollar is negative, every deficit becomes a surplus,   
   > and ever debt becomes an asset!  It's morning in America again!"   
      
   Speaking of and to the boomers... Money will become like S&H green   
   stamps.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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