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With the American abolishment of the penny, it can now be openly said, without law suits, that America is a country with absolutely no cents.

A chain of events made possible by a sociopathic merchant widely received by grateful sheep. Sadly, the sheep believed that without pennies, they could not be bought or sold for pennies on the dollar if pennies were no more.

A really stupid way of masking inflation, is simply reparse the currency system. When a penny becomes a nickel, then inflation is instantly what? 1/5 =.2,

What are the signs of economic collapse? just think about the economic windfall for banks, where is your few pennies in interest going to go?

I bet the idea was promoted by that Superman movie with the comic.

Is it really possible, for a President to set the parsing of currency to the financial industry? Or is he really a lap dog?

Deficit spending has always been unconstitutional. Yet no politician has ever been brought to justice on it. Deficit spending is no more than taxation without representation or accountability.

Now what has to happen? Think of the Bible, and a shit load of ancient works, were the daily wage was 1 penny a day. Now the books will have to be rewritten for those bastards now get nothing. Wages, in the blink of an eye, become renegotiated sans the supposed beneficiary.

Inflation is no more than a shell game with human labor. Any real union would have demanded standards instead joining the game.

Life is measured in hours, and minutes, not in any other particular product.