Becoming America
You're Dead to Me
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We Need a New Currency
The dollar is invented. We america needs a new currency. The tarla, isn't it a bohemian currency, like the tala? It means from the valley, doesn't it? So it's something tal that the currency actually is andi that's corrupted to dollar. Thereis a jefferson quote in which he says something like the arithmetic of british currency, a shilling and a farthing, and you carry what and the pence. He said, easier the arithmetic the currency, the better we are. And yet, america doesn't like the metric system. What going on there? I paper money doesn't come in until 18 61.
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