Swapping US $1 bills to coins would save 5.5b over 30yrs

Re:Swapping US $1 bills to coins would save 5.5b over 30yrs by justin_vanw on Saturday March 05, 2011 @12:13AM (#2290873)

Or, alternatively, we could cut defense spending by 1% and save that much money every year.

Better yet, lets cut defense spending by 50% and save $300B per year. Honestly, other than the big defense contractors, nobody would ever notice or care (well, people would notice that our economy suddenly had 300B of extra cash in it every year).

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Re:Swapping US $1 bills to coins would save 5.5b over 30yrs by alanh on Saturday March 05, 2011 @12:24AM (#2290890)

Academics love to get a taste of that defense budget via research grants, but yeah, agreed. Lots of waste inherent in the military-industrial complex.

Plus there’s the whole killing people thing.

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Re:Swapping US $1 bills to coins would save 5.5b over 30yrs by stretchwithme on Saturday March 05, 2011 @12:34AM (#2290910)

The actual costs of defending the United States against Canadian aggression is probably only 10% of what we now spend.

One has to wonder how much we'd save if we simply had term limits, proportional representation or instant runoff voting.

We need representation that actually represents our actual interests instead of being so easily bought and sold.

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Re:Swapping US $1 bills to coins would save 5.5b over 30yrs by teyc on Saturday March 05, 2011 @12:30AM (#2290900)

Yup, that's the same savings as ending the Iraq war 5.5 days earlier.

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