My Two Dollar’s Worth

(Re-posted with permission from February 2005)

It must be about 15 years ago that a friend gave me a two dollar bill as a present. Obviously I first thought if was one of this fake one million dollar bills but she could convince me that it was the real McCoy.

Naturally I did not spend it. Somehow, I don’t remember how, I got another one and both of them stayed with me. I did not even part with one despite my son’s convincing argument that there are two bills and he and I are two, so he should have one - Nope - I stayed tough.

I printed one out for him though right now and will give it to him later, maybe that will do.

Today, Gigi, on going through old mail, found another one, and I could not help a WOW! - 1928!

When I got the first bill my eyes were 20/20 but this time I needed to use a magnifying class to peruse the bills.

You can do more or less the same because I put a high res scan for the world to see. Here is the 1928…

and here the newer one from 1976…

Click on the images for the full size - sorry for the long download over a slow line but I think it’s worth it.

The text on the bills individually are not that suspicious but seeing them in comparison is eye-opening.

OK, so this green stuff turned from a UNITED STATES NOTE into a FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE, but we all know that already, right? Considering the constitution would that mean that it’s all fake money we are running after all our life - kinda silly. But then again, even if it’s fake, if nobody knows, what’s the difference.

But sometimes I wonder. These guys trying to fool us are criminals - kinda like a con-artist. But why do they try to say the truth then. I could only imagine that’s the laugh-value, like ‘SUCKERRR!’, when the people find out the hard way. The old bill said “The United States of America will pay to the bearer on demand TWO DOLLARS” and the new one says “The United States of America TWO DOLLARS”. We know it’s not a sentence anymore, but - hey - you suckers didn’t even notice, did you?

And then the other one: “This note is a legal tender at its face value for all debts public and private” versus “This note is legal tender for all debts public and private”. See, we say right here that we might not give you back what you paid for that note, and it’s not really our fault that a 1926 Model-T Tudor Sedan cost $580 and a comparable car today cost $58,000 - but hey you also earn a lot more, right.

And that the tax increases progressively with the money you make - now - for that you have to go to your government!

Should we be angry with these guys - no way - that would only give them power. But are we willing to give up all the goodies that the crooks gave us to keep us content? Imagine, you would actually need money first before you can buy a car or a house, and I guess you would have to have very sturdy pockets for all that gold you have to carry around as the government does not seem to be willing to give up on it’s biggest hidden tax - - inflation.

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24 Feb 2005 @ 16:05 by Ed Dawson @68.136.84.246 : Money, money, money
I just read a book which has quite a bit of discussion of the fed reserve and the nature of money. The book was the newly discovered, long lost first novel of Robert Heinlein: “For Us, The Living”. It has quite a bit of discussion of economic systems embedded in it.

The fed bank has a lot of power. It is a corporation which is owned by other banks. And it seems to protect its interests quite well. With all the speculation about JFK being assasinated because he did various things, such as annoy the Mob or Castro, hardly anyone seems to notice that he attempted to take control of the monetary supply away from the Fed and print money produced by the US government directly. Not long after that, he died…

What was it Geoffrey Filbert said, that anyone can be killed for a quarter billion or more at stake?
Ed

PS: in the continuing spirit of delenda est cartago, I again ask the musical question “What’s a skookum”? ;-))))

24 Feb 2005 @ 17:41 by jmarc : i think that between the 2
there should be one with a blue seal too. It would be interesting to see if there were any language morphs on the blue silver certificates. Now we’re getting all kinds of funky colours on the new bills, salmon on the 20s (somethings fishy), pinks on the 50s.. LINK

24 Feb 2005 @ 21:06 by skookum : oh kayyyyy
Skookum is a Chinook word meaning big and strong.

Chinook is a trade language that combines French and native speaking words. It originates in the Northwest where my family is from. My grandfather could speak some of it and it was the name of my cat. I took this name due to the fact it wasn’t very common and well.. I liked that cat..

25 Feb 2005 @ 01:44 by Ed Dawson @66.245.207.108 : Washington State
Yeah, Chinook! Cool! I graduated from high school in Tumwater Washington, lots of tribes up there. I dated a Macah (native tribe) girl in high school. She was a Macah, and I a Davidson. Not really all that different….

As for the cat.. if country music star Buck Owens can name himself Buck after the family dog, then you can certainly call yourself after your cat! ;)))

thanks for the reply, Skookum.
cheers
Ed

PS: Back to the money subject, Heinlein really talks bad about banks in that book. He cites them as a leading cause of economic collapses.

25 Feb 2005 @ 04:51 by skookum : let us not forget
Indiana Jones….

25 Feb 2005 @ 07:12 by vaxen : Ed…
wasn’t Heinlein one of Rawls’ friends? I mean where does Mish fit into all of this anyway? Is there any real ‘need’ to revisit Excalibur? I think so but, then, I’m only a class 9 implanter and our opinions don’t count for much. You might want to do a little bit of re-search (auditing of?) ‘the City.’ The real ‘London’ within London.

“The Temple Bar is comprised of four Inns of Court. They are: The Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincolns Inn and Grays Inn. The entry point to these closed secret societies is only to be found when one is called to their Bar.”

“The Bar attorneys in the United States owe their allegiences and pledge their oaths to ‘The Crown.’ All Bar Associations throughout the world are signatories and franchises to the International Bar Association located at the Inns of Court of the Crown Temple.”

By The Crown, in the above, I do not mean the ‘Queen of England,’ a mere satrap, either…

Are you a ‘denizen’ or a ‘citizen?’ And if so why? And if not now then when? I revisit Excalibur everyday. Y tu?

Don’t forget that XENU and Yatrus always work together but Yatrus is actually a much wilier opponent. Teegeeack was Yatruscan before incident II. There is still a lot of hidden animosity between the two overlords. It shows. Ah, the jolly old ‘Bank’ of England. (Eng-Land = Yngwies Land)

25 Feb 2005 @ 21:58 by Ed Dawson @66.245.208.209 : Owen and Jones/Yngwie?
Owen and Jones. Two fine Welsh (Briton) names. :))

Yngwie???? I think I’ve read far too much sci-fi (if that is possible) because a line from De Camp comes to mind:

“Ingvi is a louse!”

Ed