It’s there.
Would better dressed/behaved '60s War Protestors have shortened the War?
Why on earth do you, and many others in this thread, think this change would cost all that much? Change the motto on all new currency to be printed, and don’t replace the old notes that would get destroyed in the normal course of things.
Should cost peanuts. If even that seems too expensive, I’m sure printing presses regularly get replaced as a matter of course. Simply have the new ones changed, if you’re that worried about cost.
Frankly I’ve come to like it, even though I’m atheist, just because of the pithy “…all other pay cash” thing. Every time I see it or think about it now I can’t help but think of that phrase and it makes me laugh.
I’m not so sure. This poll concluded that:
I think the Ten-Commandments-in-every-courtroom crowd is a noisy minority; most folks don’t want their government mixed with their God.
I wonder why it is so important to post the 10 Commandments, Is it because the people who believe in the Abrahamic God don’t know them or need reminding that they shouldn’t Kill, steal etc. ? It seems atheists know this with out a reminder! The Buddha’s Golden rule covered most of the ideas of the 10 Commandments.
Intimidation, while pretending to be “moral”. It’s a way of announcing that you hate everyone who isn’t a Christian and will do everything you can to harm them, while making speeches about how it means you are moral and upstanding.
Ditch it.
Ok, 56% is “most folks”.
That said, the number of people who’d actually put some work into getting such a monument built and installed, as opposed to reflexively approving of it after the fact, is surely small.
Still, point taken.
Yes, and that’s true of pretty much every issue.
Thanks.
Yeah, you’re right.
Thanks for providing the correct information.
Seems like the thing to do is try to stop new monuments and In God We Trusts, it’s much harder to oppose them after the fact, when it seems like an attack.
I propose you lobby to add new statements of faith to the currency. Grab some tag lines from other religions represented in the country, from Catholicism to Islam to atheists to Jedi, print them on the currency in the same proportion that they exist in the population. Once they are in circulation people could trade around for the aphorisms they prefer. It could also create jobs as marketplaces for these transactions spring up.
I don’t much care one way or the other if it gets changed or not.
The progressives of this very board and amongst the general populace do care, very much, but like almost all pet projects it comes down to cost.
If it’s your pet project, you deem it worthy of the cost, whatever that is. Kind of like Obamacare. Or the Republicans military budget or just about any major political vision.
I’d like to get on track about budgeting the money allotted to the federal government without further taxation. You don’t help the cause when you deem piddly shit like this “important, at any cost”
My questions still stands. At any cost?
How about at the cost of just not putting it on any of our currency from now on? Nobody is talk about recalling all the money out there for a reprinting-just leave those words off when new stuff is minted or printed.
“At any cost”? Like what, destroy civilization so money no longer exists? Of course not “at any cost”, that’s a ridiculous standard.
I think, like someone earlier said, the cost being as minimal as that, go for it!
But I’d still need a breakdown and the money would need to be budgeted.
You are probably right, except when it comes to a different fight, maybe abortion, maybe healthcare, maybe some war, maybe some bridge to nowhere: someone will always justify the cost (as long as it is for themselves or their electorate)
That is where my problem arises
Design changes and/or updates are done all the time for coins and paper currency, so I’m not see any extra cost when it comes to that. I’m not talking about a special printing to be done now-just a note not to include those words when the new stuff gets printed.
We’re talking about, what, replacement printing plates? Which are surely replaced periodically anyway. So all you’d have to do is start replacing IGWT plates with non-IGWT plates.
We’re probably talking well under a million dollars for the whole project: design new plates, have them made, starting swapping them in.
And that would be a million dollars that would have been spent for new plates anyway, so no new real cost at all.