When Will America Run Out Of Paper?

[Michigan Badger]

It seems like all we're hearing these days is "Billions Needed for Bailout."

I'm rather concerned that we're endangering our nation source of paper to print all that money.

I mean, how many trees bite the dust everytime the Fed does another big giveaway?

I suggest they print special bills in the 1 Billion Dollar denomination as to save our trees and general paper supply. Better yet, why not furnish the auto makers with Fed credit cards and bypass paper all together?

And another thing, why not just set the whole nation on plastic money and give everyone about $10,000,000 (tax free)? Then we can all lay around and hire illegal aliens to run our car washes, flip burgers, etc.!

What do you think?

Badger

 

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[jeff of pa]

won't run out till trees stop growing.

we have the whole rain forest in reserve.

as long as they don't put all forests, & All other
Plant sources off limits We're safe.

Also Hemp is renewable every year.
& From what I'v read makes a Fine Paper source.
& From what little I know of
paper for money, may already be being used.

 

[BuckleBoy]

If I had a Billion Dollar Bill I'd go in and buy a pack of gum...

 

[Mental Granny]

And all the recycled paper is great its more expensive but its out there.

 

[G.I.B.]

I think we are going to run out of paper sooner than you think if I keep eating this cooked cabbage.

Oh- - - the gubberment---

Sorry, yeah, really screwed up. I've been to countries where there are simply no trees left. Really sad.

 

[mastereagle22]

Money is actually printed on a material that more closely resembles cloth.

Currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton. Red and blue synthetic fibers of various lengths are distributed evenly throughout the paper. Prior to World War I the fibers were made of silk.

http://www.moneymuseum.com/standard...papiergeld/papierdruck/papierdruck_unten.html

But I think I got your point.

 

[mistergee]

when most lumbering co's remove trees they have to replant with new ones....many times its the soft woods which grow fast as opposed to the hardwoods that take lots longer to grow....after all they want to stay in business so they need a steady supply of product

 

[mastereagle22]

Quoted from earlier post:


But I think I got your point.


MB I knew exactly what you were getting at. Heck the Govt might as well give all us taxpaying citizens a Million dollars each. I mean what difference does it make to them if they are just floating bad paper out there?

And with our government in the mess we are in right now the President-Elect wants to hand out some more "stimulus" money as soon as he is in office.

Our government has NO clue how to be responsible and pay the bills of the country. But that shouldn't be suprising since many of them have never actually held a real, honest to goodness job.

 

[BuckleBoy]

America has something most other nations lack--the potential to be independent of all other nations. Even today we could grow our own crops and drill our own oil. We could say "stick-it" to the rest of the world if we wanted to (would require frugal living). But we won't because the rich would have too much to lose.

I seriously doubt that Americans--rich or poor would give up what they'd have to give up in order for us to do that.  Tell it to the folks that celebrate the season with $500 worth of plastic, light-up Crap in their yard that they pay $300 extra per month in electricity to keep it all bright enough to keep the neighbors awake until the Middle of January when the Finally get around to taking it down.  

It's America, and the desire to have light-up Crap must of course equal the Right to have it.  Everyone will be All For us being self sufficient and independent as a nation--until it means that they might have to do something as simple as turn off the lights at night to help make it possible.  Did people gripe when they couldn't have their Shellac 78RPM records during WWII?  


God Forbid we forego our "Right" to a Christmas time Front Yard Monstrosity.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Rain forest in reserve? They destroying them at an alarming rate. As a truck driver I frequent the ports of LA and Long Beach. You wouldn't believe the amount of lumber imported from Malaysia, Vietnam, and South America. The Amazon is shrinking at an alarming rate every day

 

[mastereagle22]

The next one in 09 or 2010 will no doubt be well over a trillion bucks. Geese! that's a heck of a lot of worthless paper (cloth).

Sorry MB. I just found it an interesting fact that our paper currency is printed on cloth and not paper, "technically" Saw it on the Discovery Channel once.

 

[wirelessworldinc]

Bush just approved the $17.4 billion to auto companies. I own my own company, I think I am going to see if I can qualify for some of this bailout money. I guess if they can run their companies in the ground and go broke while fatting up their own bank accounts we all ought to get in the bailout line and GET CHA SOME. Mary ann

 

[mastereagle22]

I drew up some letter head and business cards and sent a request for a Grant from GW and BHO for my "metal locating service" Never heard back.

 

[Mental Granny]

GW broke in to say bailout commin but only cause Crystler is closing plants for a month. Which means tirkle down steel indusry, glass, upholstry alot of places will have to shut down, but the auto exec.'s will still get there bonus.

 

[mastereagle22]

GW broke in to say bailout commin but only cause Crystler is closing plants for a month. Which means tirkle down steel indusry, glass, upholstry alot of places will have to shut down, but the auto exec.'s will still get there bonus.

And this is EXACTLY why the bailout should NOT have happened.

 

[Jimmy(PA)]

Bush just approved the $17.4 billion to auto companies. I own my own company, I think I am going to see if I can qualify for some of this bailout money. I guess if they can run their companies in the ground and go broke while fatting up their own bank accounts we all ought to get in the bailout line and GET CHA SOME. Mary ann

America is a little over 200 years old and in another 200 years this will be a very different nation indeed! People will read of these days and long for them but they will be too afraid to speak out.

And so the beat goes on...

My biggest fear is the 3rd world immigrants who pour in here daily. The same ones I see sitting around all day, collecting government handouts, and having 50 kids. You know, we see them on CNN holding foreign flags saying illegals have a right to be here. If our nation was flooded with 3rd world immigrants wouldnt that make this a world world country? Sure some people will say we are all immigrants but the Western European work routines and reasons for coming here tended to be much different and better for this country. We just dont need hundreds of thousands of laborers like we did in 1880, those jobs are gone and the unskilled immigrants pouring in here daily legally and illegally will not find jobs, hell most Americans here with college degree's can't find jobs right now. I don't know about you guys but im tired of going into stores with hundreds of people and not hearing a word of English. If you want to be American fine, if you want to keep your language and culture why not just stay in your own country? Personally I think someday this country will be divided along political lines with a new liberal controlled socialist state and a seperate state for the last bastions of the old America. Which do you think would be nicer? After all a house divided cannot stand right? Europes also facing this problem, my family in Ireland said Nigerians are comming in by the boatload, crimes going up, and for the first time cops are beginning to carry guns. So its not just us, the whole Western World is doomed...Dark Ages here we come?

 

[Goodinplenty]

I'm not worried I've got a money tree outback.

 

[ohioaxeman]

i'd say this... if you need to go buy toilet paper at walmart, knock yourself out, but quit buying CUTE crap like magnets for your fridge. its not helping our economy!