Friday, January 4, 2013

The source of the insane trillion dollar coin idea

A Simpsons episode called "The Trouble with Trillions".

"In "The Trouble With Trillions," an episode from the show's difficult second decade, Homer Simpson is given a special assigment: Tracking down the $1 trillion bill printed by Harry Truman's Treasury during the rebuilding of Europe. The Feds believe -- correctly -- that the bill was stolen by C. Montgomery Burns, who had been given it for safe-keeping as "America's wealthiest, and therefore most trustworthy, man."
--http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/04/john_boehner_not_entirely_convinced_by_platinum_coin_solution.html

Quote:
Mr. Burns: Well, if it's a crime to love one's country, then I'm guilty. And if it's a crime to steal a trillion dollars from our government and hand it over to communist Cuba, then I'm guilty of that too. And if it's a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I'll soon be guilty of that!
Homer Simpson: God bless America!

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