I just got an email bashing Congress. (so far so good) It was about the presidential dollar program where a dollar coin was being minted for each dead president. The program was scheduled to go until 2016. The problem? Nobody was using the coins so they were all being put into storage.
They cost $.32 apiece to make. The mint was spending $560,000 a day making the coins. ABC did a news release on it. The news release got put in an email. I just got the email. The problem? The program has been CANCELLED! In 2008!
That's right, Congress got something right and cancelled a bad program. No REALLY!!! But the email is still floating around pissing people off that don't bother to check it out. Go figure!!
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Ah forwarded emails....I never trust them.
emails forwarded to multiple addresses are the bane of emails.
Who is Andrew Johnson and why should we have him in our purses?
Funny and sad that the ignorance of the public. They'll believe all kinds of crap and spread it without ever checking it out. Gotta love Snopes!
I for one would have loved to have had a Millard Fillmore dollar coin. Millard rocked. Cheers!!
Matt-Man
A - You have to check everything out. Especially if you're going to pass it along.
EPT - I never tell anyone what's in my purse.
J - Between Snopes and Politifact, a lot of bubbles get busted.
MM - There's a whole warehouse full of them. Stop on by. I'm sure they'll give you a few samples if you raise a ruckus.
there was a recent piece on NPR about people buying these coins direct from the government. They purchase them with their credit cards, the government ships them for free, they deposit them into their bank accounts, pay off the credit card debt and earn tons of points towards airline miles or what ever and the bank sends them back to the mint so that you can buy them again next month!
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