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After cashing a postal money order, David Lipin tried using one of the eight $100 bills at the gas station and was nearly arrested. Even the Secret Service couldn't help him replace the bogus bills.

A significant production problem with new high-tech $100 bills has caused government printers to shut down production of the new notes, which have sophisticated high-tech security features, including a 3-D security strip and a color-shifting image of a bell designed to foil counterfeiters. But the production process is so complex, it has instead foiled the government printers tasked with producing billions of the new notes. An official said that 1.1 billion of the new bills have been printed, but they are unusable because of a creasing problem in which paper folds over during production.

Two bills:
http://www.nhliberty.org/bills/view/2011/SB148
http://www.nhliberty.org/bills/view/2011/HB601

NH gave $666,000 back to the FedGov "for debt reduction"
NH citizens shall not be required to obtain health care coverage
NH now has a commission that has to approve any related new "administrative" changes before any NH bureaucracy adopts them.

A printing problem with the new high-tech $100 bills has forced government printers to shut down production - and to quarantine more than one billion of the notes.

Consider these questions:

If you owned a printing press in your basement and could LEGALLY print your own money…

1. would you choose to pay your bills by printing the money you needed?
2. would you choose to pay your bills by going to the bankers for a loan?

Joel Chandler, pays his tolls with $20, $50, or even $100 bills. He's been told on multiple occasions he's being detained (illegally) unless he provides personal info to the toll taker. He videos the interactions.

Only one thing you can say in response to this: "WHAT DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN!?" Dumbass prohibitionists.

With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia, the legislative battle over two Internet piracy bills has reached an extraordinary moment — a political coming of age for a relatively young and disorganized industry that has largely steered clear of lobbying and other political games in Washington.

Fantastic article exposing one of the major reasons medical bills are so high [Hint: Government regulation forcing insurance companies and doctors to price services based on arbitrary Medicare prices].

[PDF Archive of Time magazine article, since original is behind paywall]