31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
5:58 a.m.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Stan Barr wrote:
(Are your bills still all the same size, or have you
copied everyone
else and made the larger dominations bigger to stop people bleaching
small bills to print big ones?)
Same size, but the artwork on thr 20's has radically changed.
Metal strips, reactive inks, etc ad nauseum.
I'm sure there's a large and serious counterfeit problem and I can
understand the need to worry about it, and that there will be Side
Effects. It's just the current downward spiral seems to me to be a
paranoid/fascist approach. I think fascist is the right word, now,
not a screechy exaggeration. 'The use of force to acheive
political ends' especially domestically (we've (U.S., not me
personally) exported force of course for many decades :-)
Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com>