So there really are Money Trees in Washington ...

[dogtag]

Otherwise where could these trillions of dollars have come from ?

Inflation follows the printing press as if it were it's shadow.

Apologies to Cicero ("Glory follows virtue as if - ")

Buy it now while you can afford it.

[lyman]

there is a big building not far from the White House , East of it IIRC, and north west of Congress,


the run bills on those presses as fast as a newspaper printing plant runs the morning edition,

maybe faster


neat place to visit, been a few times, you should check it out

[Vern Humphrey]

there is a big building not far from the White House , East of it IIRC, and north west of Congress,


the run bills on those presses as fast as a newspaper printing plant runs the morning edition,

maybe faster


neat place to visit, been a few times, you should check it out

Do they give samples to visitors, like the Hershey plant in Pennsylvania?

[lyman]

lol no

[shadycon]

What is the dollar actually worth these days?

[Vern Humphrey]

Sixty years ago, my Mother's dream was to have a "Twenty thousand dollar home." My daughter just bought a modest house in Little Rock for $200,000.

[lyman]

What is the dollar actually worth these days?

a dollar

[dogtag]

What is the dollar actually worth these days?

Whatever someone will give you for it.

[shadycon]

a dollar

Dummy me: you are right. It just takes more of them to buy anything!

[lyman]

It just takes more of them to buy anything!

[Vern Humphrey]

Dummy me: you are right. It just takes more of them to buy anything!

Money that is not earned has no value -- so it dilutes the value of the earned dollars in circulation. Which is why raising the minimum wage never works.