viral email: "Refuse new coins because 'In God We Trust" is gone.

[Liberal_in_LA]

Received this today: :eyes:


It has begun...Refuse new coins!

REFUSE NEW COINS

This simple action will make a strong statement.

Please help do this.. Refuse to accept these when they are handed to you.

I received one from the Post Office as change and I asked for a dollar bill instead.


The lady just smiled and said 'way to go' , so she had read this e -mail.


Please help out..our world is in enough trouble without this too!!!!!



U.SGovernment to Release New Dollar Coins


You guessed it
'IN GOD WE TRUST' IS GONE!!!
If ever there was a reason to boycott something, THIS IS IT!!!!

DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW DOLLAR COINS AS CHANGE

Together we can force them out of circulation..

[sakabatou]

1. What idiots.

It's on the FUCKING EDGE, you morons!

[arbusto_baboso]

4. Plus, they can't legally refuse US currency.

DUH!

[HopeHoops]

18. Legal or not, I wouldn't accept a Reagan $50 - give me legitimate money.

[Statistical]

36. Myth & Busted.

http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml

This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.

I mean think about it. If you were required to accept all US currency then every single soda machine/snack machine/payphone is operating illegally. They don't accept pennies, and most don't accept bill larger than a dollar. Also on the other extreme at closing the person buying your house could pull up with a dump truck worth of pennies as payment.

Still the Boycott is stupid. I like the dollar coins for more for me. :)

[Soylent Brice]

10. it's way funnier to just let them think they're right. n/t

[krabigirl]

2. Wow, thanks..I am going to make sure to ask for these coins if I can.

Anything the fundies boycott is good to me!

[Lorien]

6. +1. I just hoope that the new coins aren't the same size as a quarter

this time around.

[Statistical]

37. They haven't been since 1981 (except for a single stupid year in 1999)

First it was this (starting in late 1999)


Now it is this


I do agree the Susan B Anthony coins were stupid. I mean what was the mint thinking. However they are out of active circulation which means if a bank receives one they are returned to Treasury to be melted down.

[brooklynite]

3. The fact that you got this doesn't make it "Viral"...

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Version I got has gone thru a lot of people... I can see the email trail but I get your point

[Shining Jack]

34. Those mails have been around since 2007.

Good article:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dollar_coin.htm

[Solly Mack]

7. puddingheads

[negativenihil]

8. link

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp

[Lorien]

9. Um, looks like "in God we trust" is still there

the idiots just didn't look long enough:

[Historic NY]

13. You just can't "fix stupid".

[Orsino]

27. ...and the visions-of-grandeur "way to go" in the e-mail is made up. n/t

[Statistical]

38. Wow.

Guess it never occurred for them to look at the "side" of the coin.

[Walk away]

11. They should collect them all together and send them to the Devil....

at my address! I could use some heathen money for a nice vacation.

[phantom power]

12. amusing. dollars used to say things like "silver certificate -- payable to bearer on demand"

Now, they say "in god we trust" and apparently the winger proles think that's the best of all possible worlds :-)

[Flipper999]

14. Hey if anybody out there doesn't want the new God-free money

I'd be happy to take it off their hands. :)

[catbyte]

19. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. newby alert! Welcome.

[Jamastiene]

15. I should collect a few of those if they really exist.

Do they really exist?

[elocs]

16. I happen to have 3 and they all have "In God We Trust" on them.

Two from 2009, one with Polk and one with Tyler, have "In God We Trust" on the face side.
I have another with Jackson from 2008 and it has it on the edge.

These coins are slightly larger than a quarter. Put a quarter on one and just the edge of the dollar coin shows. That's still a little too close if you are trying to feel the coin in your pocket.

I think these coins are not widely used. I have a USA Today motor route as well as some racks and very rarely do I ever get a dollar coin. It would be handy for me if they were used more then I would have to deal with tons of quarters.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

17. You can exchange them for Godly money... at a booth right outside the temple

These folks ought to spend more time reading the Bible and less time reading viral emails

[upi402]

20. In fiat we trust

NOT!

[cbdo2007]

21. Happy 2007 everybody!!!

Sorry I got confused for a minute since that was the last time I saw this email.

[LeftinOH]

22. I want to start a stupid viral email too, but I can't think "low" enough to make one stick

the way this one has.

[jmowreader]

23. The government finally got tired of this shit

The current issue of these coins has the president's name above his likeness, and "In God We Trust xx President xxxx-xxxx" below it.

Because it's so hard to look at the edge. Which is why they should change the edge to read "Quit Trusting Stupid Emails * Snopes Is Your Friend."

Here's what I want to know: Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th presidents. Does he get TWO coins?

[fascisthunter]

24. lol...

[earth mom]

25. Where can I get some of those coins-that's all I want to use from now on!

:evilgrin:

[Hekate]

26. I think the motto is on the edge of the new dollar coins. The stupid hurts so bad....

I'll be glad to relieve their pain by taking all of their ungodly money off their hands.

Hekate

[Initech]

28. Funny cause the only god these idiots worship is the almighty dollar anyways...

[RagAss]

29. Thorazine for Everybody !!!!

[WVRICK13]

30. I Should Find A Very Religious Community

and stand in Walmart to take everyones refused coins. I could get rich.

[Ildem09]

32. I wish it was.

The dolts on the right don't realize the only reason it was added to currency in the 1950's was McCarthy insanity, to snub communists

[Shining Jack]

33. It's partly true:

"...at least 50,000 of them, by one estimate were erroneously struck without the motto "In God We Trust" and found their way into the batch of 300 million issued on February 15, 2007.

It doesn't take much to tick off those idiots.And BTW "In God We Trust" did not become the official U.S.national motto until after the passage of an Act of Congress in 1956.It made the appearance of "In God We Trust" mandatory on all coins and paper currency of the United States.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dollar_coin.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. IF the US Congress developed some huevos

I know I am dreaming,

And got rid for that little saying from the Cold War I'd be singing in the streets and GLEEFULLY accepting them.

Something these idiots miss... SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

[Statistical]

39. Church & State is an expression with no legal authority.

The restriction is:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

How does the term "In God we trust" equal "making a low respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

It is possible for one to not like the term "In God We Trust" and advocate its removal without reaching to it being unconstitutional.
Many things the govt decides to do or not do are because it simply makes sense rather than a Constitutional restriction.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. We will agree to disagree

knowing the history of why it was put there.

[NoPasaran]

41. As a motto on coins, it dates to the Civil War

"In God We Trust" first appeared on the two and five-cent pieces introduced in 1864.

[RainDog]

42. we live in a nation with too many fucking idiots. n/t

[slampoet]

43. All the Christian Coin collectors can give their old Gold coins to me since we .....

...didn't put that on coins until the 1950's