Buying seeds. Canning goods. Maybe a meat smoker. Not quite building a bomb shelter, but starting to get a hunker down and wait mentality.

I have hunkered down mentally when Obama was sworn in.

That's the bill of a banana republic. Looks a lot like Iraqi dinars in the age of Hussein.

I'd rather have a Stanley Nickel. Hell, I'd take a Shrute Buck over an Obamadollar.

I can envision the new Obama $1 bill as a roll of toilet paper with 1000 sheets.

1000 sheets that melt in your hands.

It looks like a great currency from some socalist, Orwellian dystopia which I wish was only a movie. Shouldn't Obama be on the $0 bill?

Obamam should be on the trillion-dollar bill: you can either buy a roll of toilet paper with it or wipe your ass with it--same thing.

Please, please tell me this is an article from the Onion...

Now Obama really will be the 'One'.

Good. God.

How Gay is this?

Who scripted the Dowling Duncan blather explaining this, the crazy professoress over in the right-hand column?

StephenB beat me to it. Obama should be on the $0 dollar bill, that being precisely what the bill would be worth.

As a second choice, he should be on the #2 dollar bill (yes, not $2, but #2, if you get my drift).

Please, please tell me this is an article from the Onion...

No, but it should be.

In the meanwhile, this is from the Onion

$10 – The bill of rights, the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
Which will be immediately withdrawn from circulation and replaced with a $9 dollar bill once they realize they made the grievous error of acknowledging the existence of the 2nd Amendment.

Sigh. Wasn't there some rule/tradition/whatever at one point that a president doesn't get his image on currency until he's dead?

Also, has anyone here heard of this?

$10 – The bill of rights, the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution

4th - Right of search and seizure

???

Tom Dickson-Hunt:
Sigh. Wasn't there some rule/tradition/whatever at one point that a president doesn't get his image on currency until he's dead?

For well over 100 years, all American coins had a portrait of a woman symbolizing "Liberty".

In 1909, Lincoln's portrait was put on the penny to commemorate his 100th birthday.
In 1932, Washington's portrait was put on the quarter to commemorate his 200th birthday.
In 1938, Jefferson's portrait was put on the nickel to commemorate his 200th birthday.
In 1946, President-For-Life Franklin D. Roosevelt's portrait was put on the dime one year after his death.
In 1964, Kennedy's portrait was put on the half-dollar only a few months after his assassination.

So we went from commemorating the greatest Presidents of the past to sheer idolatry. Putting the current President on our currency would only be a small step now.

It's likely that any such $1 bills will be used by most folks for intimate personal hygienic purposes, as a symbolic act, even if they're really uncomfortable.

The trouble is that some ideas in the original article are actually good ones. Different sized banknotes for different denominations? Good idea, and one used by many other countries including the UK. Radically different colours for different denominations? Also a good idea. Both for the same reason; not everyone has perfect eyesight.

It should also be noted that any banknote design actually put into production would be an awful lot more complicated than the designs in the article. Otherwise, it would be far too easy to forge them.

It's a good idea for any country to change its currence fairly often - for two reasons. One is to stay one step ahead of the forgers; the other is to make illegal transactions more difficult. If your stash of drug or illegal gambling money has to be taken to a bank or become worthless...

And why have such patriotic Americans got such an objection to the Bill of Rights being printed on your banknotes? Although I agree that with that single exception the designs are a bit tacky.

Ok, I'll be tacky. I thought the $1 bill would have had a picture of a "What? Me worry?-ized" O on it rather than the actual.
I thought this was an April fools joke or something similar. Are these characters for real?

tom

I looked at Dowling Duncan's list and noted one particularly heinous omission:

The American Soldier. Who, collectively, has liberated more countries and people than any other individual or NGO in history.

The picture of Obama on the 'note' has his mouth open. Fitting image: he opens it, even if nothing useful comes out.

I'd advise these sooper-genius designers to design the ObamaBuck with a lot of room for extra zeroes. Gotta plan for the forthcoming Weimarization Zimbabwe-ization of the US economy.

Fixed it for you.

Obama is Mugabe Lite™. Same Socialist Taste, Less Filling™

Printed with disappearing ink.