Yeah, I mean how did they chose that George Washington would be in the $1 bill???
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Honestly, I think the presidents who were seen as most important or most influential were used for the different bills.  Plus Benjamin Franklin on the $100 (he was never a president).  As far as who goes on which bill, I think the more important/influential presidents were put on the more commonly used bills.  Hence, Washington is on the $1, which is used quite often, while Grant is on the $50, which was not as common when our modern monetary system was established.
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One of the greatest ludicracices ever commited, was allowing congress to set their own pay scale.  Not even the President can do that.  It really makes you see the dark side of politics when these guys get more money to bicker all day long, while the rest of us work to produce something that people need or want.
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Because he got a bill?
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he got 1century with his wife. i didnt know that. :-)
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False!  He was not the first president of the United States.  There was someone else, although I'm not sure of his name.  The inaguration I beleive was either in Philadelphia or New York.
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Absolutely!!  The second president "Jefferson" is on it.\n\nI have found many people not liking the bill only for the fact that the change drawers of cash registers do not have enough room the way it is so another bill is just annoying. \n\nOn the other hand, though it is legal tender, alot of people tend to think it is rather special and end up tucking it away like it is a rare piece to add to their collection.  The same goes for the dollar coins, no room in change drawer, too close to the quarter size and people just don't like them.  Now the government is coming out with MORE !  They don't care if you use them or not, they make money off people hoarding them thinking they are something special when really they are not!\n\nI make a habit of going to the bank and getting rolls of the coin dollars and the stacks of the $2 bills, which I give out as tips at restaurants and spend just to get them out in circulation.
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I have a real concern about this.  It is hard to believe this got through by attaching it to a Military spending bill.  I don't like the parallels it runs to the Biblical "Mark"\nWithout this National ID, you won't... \nDrive your car \nBoard a plane, train, or bus \nEnter any federal building \nOpen a bank account \nHold a job \nIf you can’t hold a job or have a bank account, how much buying and selling will you be able to do?
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if u split 1 million into 1000 $ bills and arrange it one on top of another it will be as tall as a empire state building.\nIf u do so with 1 $ bills...imagine urself....it will be 1000 times taller than empire state bldg.isnt it amazing!!!
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That's several different questions, and I hope you don't mind if I actually try to answer them instead of just enthusiastically agreeing.\n\nThe situation with Clinton was a little more serious that it appeared on the surface. The Russian Duma (their Pariliament) actually considered taking a vote to ask Monica to use WHATEVER influence she had over Bill to get him to pull US troops out of places in Europe. They didn't ask her, but they were looking into it. (You can verify that they voted against the idea, but they were considering it.)\n\nThis would short-circuit the ENTIRE electoral process. Bill wouldn't be the President, Monica would be the President-- or whoever she took HER orders from. \n\nDon't you think there's something wrong with an unelected woman having accces to the president, influencing and  affecting his decisions for the entire country...? \n\n[At least, if Bill had been getting any satisfaction from his wife, she would have had the power she was craving, and he wouldn't have had to go looking elsewhere. She missed a safe bet, there. At lesat then he would have been getting it from a legitimate source. But I suppose that was too low for even her to stoop....]\n\nWe wouldn't allow a drug addict to run the country, because we know that the real power behind him would be his supplier, who held the strings. Same with a man who was a sex addict.\n\nNow, on to the next question. Two years ago, when our soldiers first got into Baghdad, there were reports that they had found tractor-trailer loads of hundred dollar bills. Now the hundred IS the most widely circulated bill outside the US. It's a large denomination bill. \n\nBut, by the same token, they don't circulate very fast and wear out, the way ones do. I doubt that the US mint prints a tractor trailer load of hundreds in the course of a year. And they had several of them? Where did they come from? \n\nWell the first step is to realize that Saddam sent his representatives to Switzerland, to the manufacturer,  and bought several of the same pringing presses that the US Mint uses to print money. (this is a matter of public record.) They are multi-story machines weighing many tons and costing probably a hundred million a pop. But did old Saddam bat an eye? No. Why not?\n\nBecause he knew he could recoup his investiment very quickly. Those hundreds never saw the US Mint. \n\nNo wonder he could afford palaces with solid gold toilet seats! No wonder he offered $25000 to the family of each Palistinian suicide bomber who killed an American!\n\nThere's additional evidence. Remember at the time of the first Gulf War how we changed our money, updating it with all the new security features...? And after our soldiers entered baghdad, we also updated it, adding the colors...?\n\nThat's twice we changed our money. There's an old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." What were we fixing...? The fact tha Saddam was counterfeiting US currency on an unheard of scale, weakening our economy and hindering our interests all over the world!\n\nTalk about an unconventional weapon of mass effect! \n\nIf he'd had nukes, I dont doubt that he would have used them. It's Saddam's own fault for shooting off his mouth and bragging that he would have them soon. He didn't do one thing to counter the erroneous intelligence which everybody believed. He wanted us to think that he had them. \n\nIf a man aims a gun at a cop, the cop doesn't need to stop and check whether it's a real gun or a water pistol. That man is simply bought and paid for. If he didn't want to get shot, he shouldn't have threatened the cop.\n\nThe current war in Iraq is a mistake in the sense that if we'd done the job properly the first time, it wouldn't have been necessary to go back there. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say.\n\nBut-- can you see Bush going public with the news, or even publicly referring to it...? Wides
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Not in this time and era. I would like just one person to be for the people that was elected by the people. Great leadership is non existent in today's America. All I have left to do is pick by party, and pick the lesser of the two evils. Good question.
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$100\n\nThere was only as high as a $100,000 bill from the 1930's to my knowlege. A collector's item $1,000,000 was printed in 1988 on real currency paper, but they're only selling for $15-50 a piece. There was never a real $1,000,000 bill printed by the U.S. Treasury.
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History of 'In God We Trust'\nThe motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins. From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania, and read:\n\nDear Sir: You are about to submit your annual report to the Congress respecting the affairs of the national finances. \nOne fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked. I mean the recognition of the Almighty God in some form on our coins.\n\nYou are probably a Christian. What if our Republic were not shattered beyond reconstruction? Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation? What I propose is that instead of the goddess of liberty we shall have next inside the 13 stars a ring inscribed with the words PERPETUAL UNION; within the ring the allseeing eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this eye the American flag, bearing in its field stars equal to the number of the States united; in the folds of the bars the words GOD, LIBERTY, LAW.\n\nThis would make a beautiful coin, to which no possible citizen could object. This would relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism. This would place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed. From my hearth I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters.\n\nTo you first I address a subject that must be agitated.\n\nAs a result, Secretary Chase instructed James Pollock, Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, to prepare a motto, in a letter dated November 20, 1861: \nDear Sir: No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. \nYou will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition.\n\nIt was found that the Act of Congress dated January 18, 1837, prescribed the mottoes and devices that should be placed upon the coins of the United States. This meant that the mint could make no changes without the enactment of additional legislation by the Congress. In December 1863, the Director of the Mint submitted designs for new one-cent coin, two-cent coin, and three-cent coin to Secretary Chase for approval. He proposed that upon the designs either OUR COUNTRY; OUR GOD or GOD, OUR TRUST should appear as a motto on the coins. In a letter to the Mint Director on December 9, 1863, Secretary Chase stated: \nI approve your mottoes, only suggesting that on that with the Washington obverse the motto should begin with the word OUR, so as to read OUR GOD AND OUR COUNTRY. And on that with the shield, it should be changed so as to read: IN GOD WE TRUST. \nThe Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary. IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.\n\nAnother Act of Congress passed on March 3, 1865. It allowed the Mint Director, with the Secretary's approval, to place the motto on all gold and silver coins that "shall admit the inscription thereon." Under the Act, the motto was placed on the gold double-eagle coin, the gold eagle coin, and the gold half-eagle coin. It was also placed on the silver dollar coin, the half-dollar coin and the quarter-dollar coin, and on the nickel three-cent coin beginning in 1866. Later, Congress
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We shall start with the need for money. The Federal Government, having spent more than it has taken from its citizens in taxes, needs, for the sake of illustration, $1,000,000,000. Since it does not have the money, and Congress has given away its authority to "create" it, the Government must go the "creators" for the $1 billion. But, the Federal Reserve, a private corporation, doesn't just give its money away! The Bankers are willing to deliver $1,000,000,000 in money or credit to the Federal Government in exchange for the Government's agreement to pay it back - with interest! So Congress authorizes the Treasury Department to print $1,000,000,000 in U.S. Bonds, which are then delivered to the Federal Reserve Bankers.\n\nThe Federal Reserve then pays the cost of printing the $1,000,000,000 (about $1,000) and makes the exchange. The Government then uses the money to pay its obligations. What are the results of this fantastic transaction? Well, $1 billion in Government bills are paid all right, but the Government has now indebted the people to the Bankers for $1 billion on which the people must pay interest! Tens of thousands of such transactions have taken place since 1913 so that by the 1980's, the U.S. Government is indebted. to the Bankers for over $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) on which the people pay over $100 billion a year in interest alone with no hope of ever paying off the principal. Supposedly our children and following generations will pay forever and forever!
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Pay at the pump, that is how George W. wants it. It is just a shame that 1/3 of the people are still fooled by him.
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I like the way you think....Ben Franklin was first...as far as applying to today..unwarranted wire taps for "national security" the politics of fear the pres and vp employed to win? the last election  AG says pres has right to order warrantless searches of property......Sorry all of that crap pisses me off!
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Our founding fathers created a democracy with the idea of preventing a monarchy from arising in its place. They did this by giving each citizen one vote, thus putting the people above the elected government leaders. They also made the Constitution flexible, thus allowing unforeseen situations to be dealt with permanently. They also gave us rights so that we could expose wrong doing inside our government and hold the responsible individuals accountable by using our right to vote and our legal system.Corporate greed is rewarded by Wall Street and reinforced by the U.S. Congress. Wealthy individuals have their wants and concerns are very well represented by members of Congress, but who in Congress is representing the average working American?George W. Bush's leadership as president these past five years have been a one huge disaster after another. We now have huge budget deficits that appear to be growing out of control. We have a very costly war on Iraq that is going on way too long. We have spiraling trade deficits and American corporations moving their factories and personal off shore. We have wealthy individuals paying a smaller percentage of their incomes in taxes then middle class workers, and who are using off shore tax havens to avoid paying taxes. We have a new Medicare bill that is full of corporate welfare and is costing much more than we were originally told. We had a energy deregulation scandal in California that Bush refused to stop. We had huge corporate scams that robbed shareholders, employees, and creditors of billions of dollars. And this list could go on and on.
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incredibly interesting.. never heard it though - i really haven't studied the koran as much as i'd like. \nthe beak - could be the pheonix or the eagle\ni think before 1751 on the american dollar, we had an eagle who looked more like a pheonix, and by many people it was one.\nis alot of masonic symbol crap that has me thinking lately. why do we have 13 stars on coins? it's been a LONG time since we had 13 states. who in the world came up with the idea of putting the eye of ra on the dollar? of the latin? masonic symbols are EVERYWHERE! SG1 uses 'em slightly in the command center on the wall... Legend of Zoro was very cool; it showed a conspiracy about the 'knights of aaragon' (templars/masons).. and if you still the pages of the open book - its got mason picture symbols.... lets see.. Jehovas witnesses & mormons were made by masonry - i have proof of that.. but i'm a little off subject. im me as you like