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Opening Arguments

Money to burn

The tax-cut and unemployment-payment compromise will add to the already monstrous federal debt. But no problem, the government can just print more money. Well, maybe it can:

A printing problem with the new high-tech $100 bills has forced government printers to shut down production - and to quarantine more than one billion of the notes.

The flawed notes represent more than ten per cent of the U.S. currently on the entire planet.

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The defective bills - which are the most costly ever produced - will simply have to be burned.

Billions burned by the federal government with no benefit to the people. Boy, there's a shock.

Comments

john b. kalb
Tue, 12/07/2010 - 6:28pm

Leo - No new news in this message!!!! Same old-same old- valueless bureaucratic operation!

Phil Marx
Tue, 12/07/2010 - 11:44pm

Leo, according to the article, the current total supply of US currency is $930 bil. And the Feds want to print out an additional $600 bil? Unless I

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