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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 3 days ago http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/05/09/does-congress-make-cents/
 Filed under: Economy , Humor First they took away the green-back, providing we hard-working Americans with a paper currency more reminiscent of "Monopoly" money than the enduring bills-of-olde upon which our great nation was built. Then they tried to usurp the hallowed dollar with a $1 coin, confusing red-blooded American values with the effete preferences of a European coinage class. And now, shame of shames, they are trying to take the copper out of our pennies .
Hath Congress no shame? Might as well they take the bullets from our soldiers' guns. The penny is a foundational, iconic symbol of American purity. It is the alpha of our mighty financial empire. It dates back to the "pfennings" of Charlemagne, showers fortune upon its finder when heads-up and supplies a litany of poetic idioms - penny for your thoughts, I don't have two pennies to rub together, and I need to spend a penny (British parlance meaning, a need to urinate). Since the centennial of his birth, the penny's front has featured the profile of President Abraham Lincoln, while its reverse has born the image of Lincoln Memorial since the sesquicentennial of that great American's birth.
What infernal lure has so seduced Congress that they should entertain such blasphemies as the desecration of the perfect penny?
$100,000 million / year.
Pennies presently cost 1.26 cents to manufacture. By minting steel pennies with a copper plating, the cost would b ... |
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