NBC voteing on "In God we Trust" on money?

[whereismynotecard]

Our money is easier, its colour coded so you don't mistakenly tip a waiter $50 haha.

I've never done that. I tip the waiters with ones. Except when in Canada, when I tipped them with loonies and toonies. That was good fun. You guys don't have $1 bills over there though. They are coins. I know that. And so are twos. I know it, because mi sista gave me some australian monies when she came back last year.

 

[SoyLeche]

Our money is easier, its colour coded so you don't mistakenly tip a waiter $50 haha.

Here's a tip - if you are prone to getting drunk enough not to be able to recognize the big "5 - 0" in the corner of the bill - don't carry anything bigger than a 5.

 

[darkendless]

Here's a tip - if you are prone to getting drunk enough not to be able to recognize the big "5 - 0" in the corner of the bill - don't carry anything bigger than a 5.

I was too young to drink in the USA, probably still am. I'm 19 lol.

I think the USA could do with a change. Your money is the most easily forged in the world.

 

[Reverend Rick]

I think it should say, "value changes daily" or "no value implied"

 

[BucephalusBB]

I never read money.. And when I do, it must be out of boredom and every combination of letters will do..

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I was too young to drink in the USA, probably still am. I'm 19 lol.

I think the USA could do with a change. Your money is the most easily forged in the world.

The age is 21 in most states. Thier might be some 18 and 19 states left, but not many if thier are.

But for counterfeit bills, even very poor ones some people will still take.

 

[SoyLeche]

The age is 21 in most states. Thier might be some 18 and 19 states left, but not many if thier are.

But for counterfeit bills, even very poor ones some people will still take.

The fact that nobody ever even bothers to check to see if a bill is counterfeit leads me to believe that either the counterfeit bills are difficult to detect (so that if you end up getting on it is easy enough to pass off that it doesn't matter), or there just aren't all that many counterfeit bills out there.

I've lived in a country where there was a lot of counterfeiting, and EVERYONE checked every bill the received. You could probably get rid of one on a busy bus at night, but other than that if you accepted one, you were stuck with it.

 

[SoyLeche]

I was too young to drink in the USA, probably still am. I'm 19 lol.

I would have stuck with the "I was drunk" out that I gave you. If you couldn't recognize a "5-0" while sober - there's just not much that can be done to help you.

 

[Azakel]

The fact that nobody ever even bothers to check to see if a bill is counterfeit leads me to believe that either the counterfeit bills are difficult to detect (so that if you end up getting on it is easy enough to pass off that it doesn't matter), or there just aren't all that many counterfeit bills out there.

I've lived in a country where there was a lot of counterfeiting, and EVERYONE checked every bill the received. You could probably get rid of one on a busy bus at night, but other than that if you accepted one, you were stuck with it.

Ever time I hand the clerk a $20 or higher they all was check it with the marker, and the Water Mark.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Here's a tip - if you are prone to getting drunk enough not to be able to recognize the big "5 - 0" in the corner of the bill - don't carry anything bigger than a 5.

I grew up in a country with different-coloured money. Whenever I go to the States, I have to stare at a bill a little longer before I hand it over, just to make sure of what it is.

And what's up with still having a dollar bill? When I have a wallet full of bills, I expect to have a lot of money. It's so disappointing when I check it and realize that it's all ones. And there's no good reason why any civilized country should have to have bill readers on vending machines.

The fact that nobody ever even bothers to check to see if a bill is counterfeit leads me to believe that either the counterfeit bills are difficult to detect (so that if you end up getting on it is easy enough to pass off that it doesn't matter), or there just aren't all that many counterfeit bills out there.

It got pretty bad here in Canada a few years back. Most places stopped accepting 100s altogether. Even donut shops have counterfeit detectors next to the till (a gizmo with a little blacklight, a video camera, and a screen that shows an altered image that makes it easier to see whether a bill is real... somehow).

 

[sojourner]

Seriously -- if you're worried about what's printed on the money, you've got waaaay too much time on your hands.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The fact that nobody ever even bothers to check to see if a bill is counterfeit leads me to believe that either the counterfeit bills are difficult to detect (so that if you end up getting on it is easy enough to pass off that it doesn't matter), or there just aren't all that many counterfeit bills out there.

When I used to work at a gas station, the one counterfeit bill that came in that I knew of, was so poor, that you could still see the white part of the paper that made it look like they mearly scanned a 20, and then printed it on regular typing paper. That wasn't quite the exact process, because it had an odd texture, but it definitly wasn't a normal dollar bill texture. There were also quite a few color differences. The person that did accept this bill was promptly fired the next day as soon as the boss found out, and the fake bill was taped to a sign and hung in the office telling associates that it is now mandatory to swipe anything above a 20 with a counterfeit pen.

 

[sojourner]

I'd be more worried about why NBC is conducting the poll, who gave a commercial-driven media source the authority to do that, and how they're gonna skew the results to their own advantage.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I grew up in a country with different-coloured money. Whenever I go to the States, I have to stare at a bill a little longer before I hand it over, just to make sure of what it is.

I am constantly crinkling my bills, just to make sure I don't have multiple bills sticking to one bill. I am also having to double check quarters to make sure I am not handing over a dollar coin.

Oh, does anyone have a link to this poll? It would be interesting to see the results so far.

 

[whereismynotecard]

Seriously -- if you're worried about what's printed on the money, you've got waaaay too much time on your hands.

I bet you'd feel differently if the money said "There is no God." all over it. It's frustrating to feel like your country is forcing a belief on everyone by writing something like that on money, a thing everyone in the country has to use.

 

[sojourner]

I bet you'd feel differently if the money said "There is no God." all over it. It's frustrating to feel like your country is forcing a belief on everyone by writing something like that on money, a thing everyone in the country has to use.

First of all, making a statement like "there is no God" isn't forcing a belief. It's stating a position. Secondly, even if it were forcing, it's forcing non-belief, not belief.

 

[whereismynotecard]

First of all, making a statement like "there is no God" isn't forcing a belief. It's stating a position. Secondly, even if it were forcing, it's forcing non-belief, not belief.

I believe that there is no god.

I don't nonbelieve that there is one.

Besides, I was referring to "in god we trust" as the belief being forced. Stamping something like that on currency sort of implys that the "we," being the country's people trust in god, which many of us don't. I don't care for it. It's bad enough to be in the minority without your money reminding you of it.

 

[themadhair]

US needs to learn2EstablishmentClause

There is no legitimate secular purpose for having any religious reference on currency. None whatsoever, so it clearly fails the lemon test and is unconstitutional.

 

[sojourner]

US needs to learn2EstablishmentClause

There is no legitimate secular purpose for having any religious reference on currency. None whatsoever, so it clearly fails the lemon test and is unconstitutional.

Well, let's see...
The Constitution was designed and ratified by the same folks who designed and ratified the currency. May their idea of what is constitutional is different from yours...
Besides, the founding fathers secured for us the freedom of religion -- not the freedom from religion.

 

[sojourner]

I believe that there is no god.

I don't nonbelieve that there is one.

Besides, I was referring to "in god we trust" as the belief being forced. Stamping something like that on currency sort of implys that the "we," being the country's people trust in god, which many of us don't. I don't care for it. It's bad enough to be in the minority without your money reminding you of it.

"God" has always been part of the US government in some way. Even today, sessions of Congress open with prayer. There's nothing wrong with that, so long as one particular religion isn't promoted as the only religion.