Question About The New $20 Bill

[Don_G]

It's supposed to be peach and blue, right? Why would the Treasury spend 53 Million advertising the change when we don't have a choice in the matter? Does Halliburton have the advertising contract?

[corarose]

1. I bet they do have the contract and Jr gets a kickback

Or a portion of what they are being paid.

Hey, you hit on something. Why did they change it?

[soupkitchen]

2. Good Question

[Don_G]

3. Supposedly To Prevent Counterfiting

Or ShrubCo's cabinent are getting paranoid or getting a kickback somehow.

[toddzilla]

4. for years

we've had the most counterfit-prone money in the world, one color, no real anti-counterfitting features. plus its' friggin ugly...

[Don_G]

5. Maybe

Or the computer equipment has gotten that good. I'm not sure. Just seems stupid to spend that amount of money when press releases to all the newspapers would accomplish the sasme thing.

[SmileyBoy]

6. Yes, our money was VERY ugly.

People told me that when the old "new" $20 came out in 1997, that it looked like Monopoly money. HELLO???!!! The OLD money was a friggin' SPITTING IMAGE of Monopoly money. The newer bills looked LESS like funny money. I think the old notes sucked also because they visually represented 19th Century uncontrolled industrial capitalism. Our money did not look international in ANY way. It looked like the tratemark for an isolationist country. It doesn't quite look international yet, but we're off to a good start. I also think we need to get rid of the $1 bill as it is and just use the Golden Dollars, or at least change the design of it.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Remember another thing:

There is a LOT of REAL US money out there in cash, in the hands of the citizens and them goddamned furriner's. At some point, they are gonna call in all the old money, and change over to new. Remember the fits that gave to people who had large cash positions in Europe, at the time of the adoption of the euro? If you have a lot of cash, cash you cannot account for, because you have dealt in cash, well...

This may not bode well.