And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, February 13, 2021
The $100,000 US bill is the largest US denomination ever printed. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing created them during the Great Depression in 1934, for conducting official transactions between Federal Reserve banks.
You'd only need 19 million of them to "pay" for the Democrat's most recent proposed COVID "stimulus" scam, if not adjusting for inflation. Not sure how many wheelbarrow trips that's going to take....
If Otrauma had used those to send to iran, he wouldn't have needed pallets...just an attache case full of those (like you see in the movies for drug deals) would have done it...
Within the last few years, someone proposed making something about the size of the typical dept. of Treasury 1 ounce gold coin, declaring that it was worth a trillion dollars, minting the required number and paying off the national debt with them.
Funny money isn't limited to the FDR days. The administration thinks they can just print whatever they want with no effects.
With a purchasing power equivalency in 1934 of roughly $5,625,000 today.
ReplyDeleteYou'd only need 19 million of them to "pay" for the Democrat's most recent proposed COVID "stimulus" scam, if not adjusting for inflation. Not sure how many wheelbarrow trips that's going to take....
DeleteHope they didn't destroy the blanks, might need to print them again as people will need to buy bread and milk.
ReplyDeleteWilson? What idiot decided to honor that jackass?
ReplyDeleteFDR, the father of democratic socialism, was president at the time.
Delete@Hawken: Well that explains it. Birds of a feather.
DeleteMonopoly money.
ReplyDeleteCorrect Dan. Nothing more the debt notes. So apropos that Wilsons picture is on it. Traitor.
DeleteAh, awesome, 200 billion marks for a loaf of bread, 'president' Buyden mumbled while thinking about Weimar hyperinflation.
ReplyDeleteWalkin' 'round money in a couple years.
ReplyDeleteNone of us have a wheelbarrow big enough.
ReplyDeleteGot one in change the other day.
ReplyDeleteI have one of those up on my fridge
ReplyDeleteIf Otrauma had used those to send to iran, he wouldn't have needed pallets...just an attache case full of those (like you see in the movies for drug deals) would have done it...
ReplyDeleteWithin the last few years, someone proposed making something about the size of the typical dept. of Treasury 1 ounce gold coin, declaring that it was worth a trillion dollars, minting the required number and paying off the national debt with them.
ReplyDeleteFunny money isn't limited to the FDR days. The administration thinks they can just print whatever they want with no effects.