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Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:45 pm
by Wolfman
No, not Ben Affleck nor Ben Stein but our $100 US note.

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Read about it here:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/04/ ... -100-bill/

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:09 pm
by Screw_Michigan
I thought you were referring to Ben Rapistberger.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:32 pm
by MuchoBulls
Screw_Michigan wrote:I thought you were referring to Ben Rapistberger.
2rd

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:12 pm
by Mikey
I figured he was talking about Bengay.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:04 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
Screw_Michigan wrote:I thought you were referring to Ben Rapistberger.
3th

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:06 pm
by Mikey
Martyred wrote:
Screw_Michigan wrote:I thought you were referring to Ben Rapistberger.
3th
I doubt it. You were probably thinking Ben-Gurion.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:54 pm
by OCmike
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So Ben is getting a make-over, huh? Look at the collar that the Obama regime has chosen for the $100 bill.

Kind of familiar, isn't it? Can't quite place it, can you. Well let's say we look at the flag of Pakistan, the current known location and operating base of Osama Bin Laden. And let's say we invert it and rotate it 90 degrees and compare it to the collar on Ben Franklin's "make-over" bill.

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Oh.my.word. IT'S A MUZZIE MAKE-OVER!!!!!

Sincerely,

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Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:03 am
by smackaholic
Here's what I don't get. A while back treasury starts needlessly dicking around with bills.

Their reasoning?

We gotta make it hard on counterfeiters?

Really.

Couldn't counterfeiters just keep on banging out old school twenties?

Sure they could.

Also, we all used to know what our money looked like. Now that they keep fukkin' wit it, nobody has a clue wtf it's actually sposed to look like. This kinda makes it easy for the not really good counterfeiters to get ovwer.

Dear fed gubmint. Please stop fukking up everything you do.

TIA.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:08 am
by Screw_Michigan
$100s are the most counterfeited bills. There is no money in making $20s. Why is this so hard for you to understand?

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:11 am
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
I completely support the new Islamic $100 bill.


:bode:

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:36 am
by smackaholic
Screw_Michigan wrote:$100s are the most counterfeited bills. There is no money in making $20s. Why is this so hard for you to understand?
Perhaps 100s are more often counterfeited. But, there sure the fukk is money to be made in counterfeiting 20s. Were I in the bidness, I think I would do 20s, because they are very common and no one gives them a second look.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:06 am
by Goober McTuber
smackaholic wrote:
Screw_Michigan wrote:$100s are the most counterfeited bills. There is no money in making $20s. Why is this so hard for you to understand?
Perhaps 100s are more often counterfeited. But, there sure the fukk is money to be made in counterfeiting 20s. Were I in the bidness, I think I would do 20s, because they are very common and no one gives them a second look.
You really identify with the 20s, don't you?

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:18 am
by smackaholic
goobs, if I didn't know better, I'd think you and you arch cyber enemy, screwie were teaming up on me.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:31 pm
by Screw_Michigan
Suckaholic, think about it. It costs the same to produce $20s as it does $100s. But the profit margins are obviously MUCH higher for $100s. Since $100s are so highly scrutinized here, I would imagine that a majority of counterfeit $100s are circulated overseas. You have a point with $20s flying under the radar, but $20s just don't have the same profit potential.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:29 pm
by smackaholic
Screw_Michigan wrote:Suckaholic, think about it. It costs the same to produce $20s as it does $100s. But the profit margins are obviously MUCH higher for $100s. Since $100s are so highly scrutinized here, I would imagine that a majority of counterfeit $100s are circulated overseas. You have a point with $20s flying under the radar, but $20s just don't have the same profit potential.
I have thought about it and the simple fact that they don't get highly scrutinized is what makes them appealing. There is also the "no bills over a 20 thingy" that you will find in many convenient stores which are the ideal place to launder counterfeit money since the cashiers don't give a fukk and aren't that bright to begin with.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:37 pm
by Dinsdale
Screw_Michigan wrote:$100s are the most counterfeited bills. There is no money in making $20s. Why is this so hard for you to understand?
Because it's not true?

Foriegn counterfeiters go for $100's to make large drug/smuggling deals.

Domestic counterfeiters do $20's.

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:51 pm
by Wolfman
Wasn't there a plan years ago to print up new $100 bills and recall all old ones for replacement. The idea was to make the drug dealers have a bad day. It would be a bit odd to have some folks hauling trash bags full of old "Benjamins" to a bank to get the new ones. I don't know why they didn't try it. Anyone else have information?

Re: Ben to get a make-over

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:55 pm
by smackaholic
one little problem with that. money doesn't expire. What would they do? Tell everybody they gotta turn in the old stuff by july 30th? Seems to me they could do what they could to get it out of circulation, but, it wouldn't really matter much.

I say leave the money alone. Go after counterfeiters as best you can. When you find that there are places like n korea or iran which are involved in it on a large scale, you 'splain to them that we consider it an act of economic warfare and we will respond with an act of the old fashioned type of warfare and bomb the fukk outta them.