La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for April 28, 2009

The penny will go first. Eventually all prices will round to the next dollar and coins under a dollar will become collectors items. The equivalent has happened in many, many countries, and we are well down that path.

Name ten countries that don’t have a one-cent equivalent, pschearer. That claim keeps coming up and it never proves true.

Turkey (when I was there in 2000) was 500,000 Turkish Lira to $1. I’m pretty bleeep sure I never saw a penny.

LOL! btw… bleeep = d a r n

Yeah, it’s funny but I always keep pennies. Never seem to be able to get rid of them. I look forward to finding a nickel in my pocket. http://dontarrestus.com

Gotta show my age - when I was a youth in Missouri, we had a plastic state coin called a mill - worth a tenth of a cent, and used to pay sales tax (there were also 5 mill pieces). They disappeared in about 1960, when sales tax went to two percent (retailers were required to collect a penny on odd amounts of 26-75 cents, IIRC).