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One Hundred Trillion Dollar Bills!

DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
edited March 2009 in A Moving Train
Fuck Yeah.

Go Zimbabwe go.
Print the fuck out of that "money".
"I PROMISE TO PAY".
I bet you do.

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reverse side
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
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  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    I think you may just have figured out how Obama is going to fix our national debt.

    !Brillant!
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  • ajedigeckoajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,430
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    Fuck Yeah.

    Go Zimbabwe go.
    Print the fuck out of that "money".
    "I PROMISE TO PAY".
    I bet you do.

    Zimbabwe_$100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg
    reverse side
    i find it amusing, a note of that magnitude with a pile of rocks balanced well.

    also...looks like a pile of shit under the cow, flipping someone off.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    Whatever you do, don't show it to the president of Cuba.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    ...and the Mugabe just threw a huge birthday bash for himself....and told the remaining white farmers to pack up their stuff and leave......land redistribution will continue. :roll:
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    That's better than money... it' an I.O.U.

    See this one, it's for $250,000. Might wanna hold on to that one. :D
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  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    why are they still holding on to this currency? should go to a resource based economy completely. there must be some powerful groups influencing policy in Zimbabwe if they are still clinging to this failed enterprise called capitalism.



    get government employees mining diamonds. stockpile them as value for the new currency, called the diamond dollar or some shit. start paying for everything with that. spread the currency, etc, until its common. do not allow banks the luxury of fractional reserve banking, do not allow them to devalue the currency. be fiscally sound, etc. basically quit following the rules the banking industry has put in place. make up your own.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    what is the point of a one hundred trillion dollar bill? what system are they trying to adhere to?
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    why are they still holding on to this currency? should go to a resource based economy completely. there must be some powerful groups influencing policy in Zimbabwe if they are still clinging to this failed enterprise called capitalism.



    get government employees mining diamonds. stockpile them as value for the new currency, called the diamond dollar or some shit. start paying for everything with that. spread the currency, etc, until its common. do not allow banks the luxury of fractional reserve banking, do not allow them to devalue the currency. be fiscally sound, etc. basically quit following the rules the banking industry has put in place. make up your own.
    What makes you think the government....which is basically one man....of Zimbabwe cares about the people of Zimbabwe?
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    good point. its getting a little bit rediculous at this point though. one hundred trillion dollar bills. are they serious?
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    good point. its getting a little bit rediculous at this point though. one hundred trillion dollar bills. are they serious?
    That's what a defacto President for life gets you in the end, I guess. His land distribution policies have destroyed the country's ability to produce anywhere the basic food supplies that it needs...the need to eat and the inability to produce food is one of the main triggers behind this Weimaresque hyper-inflation.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    tybird wrote:
    That's what a defacto President for life gets you in the end, I guess. His land distribution policies have destroyed the country's ability to produce anywhere the basic food supplies that it needs...the need to eat and the inability to produce food is one of the main triggers behind this Weimaresque hyper-inflation.



    Actually, that's not really true. the gov't of Zimbabwe took a loan from the World Bank, an international bank. when they signed for the loan they agreed to certain stipulations....one important thing...Zimbabwe agreed to pay its loan payment to the WB ahead of all other gov't programs. schools, soup kitchens, even the military all had to wait for funding until the WB loan payment was made. another important "structural adjustment" Zimbabwe had to made was to focus on exports. whatever their primary product was, and I"m not sure what it is, they had to agree to export X percent of it, usually to the United States, even if it meant its locals would go without said product. even food.


    So, Zimbabwe had loan payments to make, as well as to run a country, a very poor country. What they decided to do was print more currency, to pay off the loan, which led to inflation, which led to them printing more currency, which led to more inflation, until the critical mass was reached and hyperinflation was achieved.

    that led to farmers not being able to cover costs of producing food, becasue whatever they were getting for their crops wasn't nearly enough, which led to most of them coming to the cities looking for work/help. people flocked to the cities, including famers, in the hopes that they could get the essentials. a similar situation happened in post-collapse Soviet Union. People looked to their government for help. problem was the government was broke, was still printing money to try and pay off its debts. they couldn't afford to feed the population. and as all the farmers came into the cities, food production came to a halt.

    now everyone's hungry, looking for help, and the government is busy pumping out 1 hundred trillion dollar bills to cover costs.



    international banking institutions caused this, not policies from the Zimbabwe government, such as land distribution.
  • OutOfBreathOutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    That has an effect of course, but as to agricultural output, kicking out white farmers and leaving the lands to veteran soldiers and the like probably didn't help any either.

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    tybird wrote:
    That's what a defacto President for life gets you in the end, I guess. His land distribution policies have destroyed the country's ability to produce anywhere the basic food supplies that it needs...the need to eat and the inability to produce food is one of the main triggers behind this Weimaresque hyper-inflation.



    Actually, that's not really true. the gov't of Zimbabwe took a loan from the World Bank, an international bank. when they signed for the loan they agreed to certain stipulations....one important thing...Zimbabwe agreed to pay its loan payment to the WB ahead of all other gov't programs. schools, soup kitchens, even the military all had to wait for funding until the WB loan payment was made. another important "structural adjustment" Zimbabwe had to made was to focus on exports. whatever their primary product was, and I"m not sure what it is, they had to agree to export X percent of it, usually to the United States, even if it meant its locals would go without said product. even food.


    So, Zimbabwe had loan payments to make, as well as to run a country, a very poor country. What they decided to do was print more currency, to pay off the loan, which led to inflation, which led to them printing more currency, which led to more inflation, until the critical mass was reached and hyperinflation was achieved.

    that led to farmers not being able to cover costs of producing food, becasue whatever they were getting for their crops wasn't nearly enough, which led to most of them coming to the cities looking for work/help. people flocked to the cities, including famers, in the hopes that they could get the essentials. a similar situation happened in post-collapse Soviet Union. People looked to their government for help. problem was the government was broke, was still printing money to try and pay off its debts. they couldn't afford to feed the population. and as all the farmers came into the cities, food production came to a halt.

    now everyone's hungry, looking for help, and the government is busy pumping out 1 hundred trillion dollar bills to cover costs.



    international banking institutions caused this, not policies from the Zimbabwe government, such as land distribution.
    Quite a spin....quite a biased spin. A Mugabe supporter, eh? To say that the situation in Zimbabwe is not related to Mugabe's policies, as he is the government, is basically a white wash. It also shows that you can not overlook your bias and lay blame where it truly belongs.

    I don't expect that Mugabe is carrying around any of these notes.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    tybird wrote:
    Quite a spin....quite a biased spin. A Mugabe supporter, eh? To say that the situation in Zimbabwe is not related to Mugabe's policies, as he is the government, is basically a white wash. It also shows that you can not overlook your bias and lay blame where it truly belongs.

    I don't expect that Mugabe is carrying around any of these notes.

    You're both wrong and both half right. The World Bank does essentially destroy these countries and get them hooked into debts they can never hope to pay off. At the same, the land redistribution did fuck their country up completely by putting people that didn't know how to farm in control of running an agricultural economy.

    There's never one simple, clear cut cause for problems like this. It's why I always disagree with Drifting's conspiracy theories. International systems are far too complex for just one thing to be the cause of every outcome (too many things affect an economy for it to be one small group of bankers ruling the world). If this were the case, every world problem would have been solved long ago.
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