Comments on: Pocket change http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/2012/03/30/pocket-change/ Commentary and insight on the issues of the day Sat, 25 May 2013 00:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: bill Boggs http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/2012/03/30/pocket-change/comment-page-1/#comment-6636 bill Boggs Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:37:40 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/?p=2672#comment-6636 We’ve tried to bring in the dollar coin a couple of times before and it didn’t take. Business didn’t like it; it didn’t fit their cash drawers. Now if we brought in the dollar again and quit making pennies, and call in all those jars of pennies stored away in drawers and closets, that might work. Seriously, we could do without the pennies ourselves. Maybe then, all those clerks working in all those convenience stores, could then make change.

]]> By: Mark Brewer (@brewerma) http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/2012/03/30/pocket-change/comment-page-1/#comment-6631 Mark Brewer (@brewerma) Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:41:58 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/?p=2672#comment-6631 I think we should lose the dollar bill and go to the coin. I’ve lived overseas where the dollar coin is used instead and it works fine. And it probably lasts much longer than the ragged $1s we are carrying around and handing over and over.

In this economic climate, we need to find ways like this to cut costs at the federal level.

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