[Geology2] Re: [allthingshistory] U.S. To Give Limestone-Based Economy A Shot Starting Next Week

The saying "you can get further with sugar than with vinegar" will take on new meaning in this economy...

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net> wrote:

 

Breaking news . . .

 
U.S. To Give Limestone-Based Economy A Shot Starting Next Week
 
"Sounds Weird, But You Never Know," Officials Say
 
Washington -- Facing a grim fiscal future made even more uncertain by
 the looming insolvency of Greece and Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department
 
has announced the nation will switch over to a limestone-based economy
beginning next Monday. "We're giving each American family 3 tons of
 Tennessee-quarried limestone, declaring 5 pounds of rock to be
equivalent to the value of one chicken, and then hoping the people can
figure it out from there," Treasury Timothy Geithner said. "Sure, it may
  
be a long shot, but we've more or less exhausted our options at this
point. What do we have to lose?" At press time, speculators were driving
 
up the price of limestone and creating an unsustainable bubble that will
  
inevitably require a massive taxpayer bailout when it bursts.
 
Read more:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-to-give-limestonebased-economy-a-shot-starting,26826/
  
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