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    Default Competing Currency Being Accepted in Parts of the U.S.

    Sign of Things to Come ?
    "New types of money are popping up across Mid-Michigan and supporters say, it’s not counterfeit, but rather a competing currency.

    Right now, you can buy a meal or visit a chiropractor without using actual U.S. legal tender.

    They sound like real money and look like real money. But you can’t take them to the bank because they’re not made at a government mint. They’re made at private mints.

    “I sell three or four every single day and then I get one or two back a week,” said Dave Gillie, owner of Gillies Coney Island Restaurant in Genesee Township.

    Gillie also accepts silver, gold, copper and other precious metals to pay for food.

    He says, if he wanted to, he could accept marbles."

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    Default Re: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Parts of the U.S.

    Great find, Yiolas! Here's Part 2:

    http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/ne...aspx?id=482130

    Competing Currencies: Part Two

    Quote In part one of NBC25's special series "Competing Currencies," NBC25's Dan Armstrong showed how the government says any private business can accept or refuse any kind of payment.

    In part two, Dan goes deeper, discovering why certain businesses say it's better to have private currency than actual U.S. legal tender.

    There was a time in America when you could buy four gallons of gas for a dollar.

    That dollar came in the form of a coin, around one ounce, made mostly of silver.

    In today's market, that same coin is worth about 10 times its face value because of the silver.

    Therefore, that same coin in theory, could still buy around four gallons of gas...... con't

    Interesting thing mentioned in the comments that I was NOT aware of:

    Quote In 1913 the FED was enacted and it will expire on December 23,2013. At that time we will have eclipsed into a world system...
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    Default Re: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Parts of the U.S.

    At first glance, I thought that this subject would be about the Amero and its forced distribution. However, what I actually learned is really good news.

    Thanks for posting.
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    Default Re: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Parts of the U.S.

    There was something like this... called the Liberty Dollar. It was accepted in the town I live in.

    Actual coins with actual precious metal in them and paper notes representing actual precious metal... try to search for their site now and you will be told it has been removed due to court order.

    Using this money is now grounds for arrest.

    I'm glad something along these lines is popping up again. I'm all for local money, based on local labor and the exchange of local goods. That's what all money used to represent - the worth of labor.

    Somewhere along the way it began to represent the worth of a person instead the worth of his good honest labor. Ick.
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    Default Re: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Parts of the U.S.

    Quote Posted by CuppaJoe (here)
    There was something like this... called the Liberty Dollar. It was accepted in the town I live in.

    Actual coins with actual precious metal in them and paper notes representing actual precious metal... try to search for their site now and you will be told it has been removed due to court order.

    Using this money is now grounds for arrest.

    I'm glad something along these lines is popping up again. I'm all for local money, based on local labor and the exchange of local goods. That's what all money used to represent - the worth of labor.

    Somewhere along the way it began to represent the worth of a person instead the worth of his good honest labor. Ick.

    Here here!!! Jolly good point!

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    Default Re: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Parts of the U.S.

    So, I could go to a business and pass off monopoly money then?

    Better find my old Monopoly game so I can get my funny money!

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    Default Re: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Parts of the U.S.

    I live in Northern Lower MI and many businesses in our town take a form of currency called "Bay Bucks", which is awesome.

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