Arizona congressman David Schweikert wants to get rid of the dollar bill? But what will the strippers do? How will we buy a soda at the vending machine? Will this bill just bolster the mining industry while destroying the environment in the process?
But a more important question: will the coin purse do a back-to-the-future revisit from the middle ages and become a money-holding must-have?
I hope so. Women have it covered, but men? It’s a tricky situation.
WHAT, exactly, will happen to the oh-so fashionable, ridiculously expensive money clip? Where will Prada make their money? Can we as Americans really let this dissappear? 
I SUPPOSE we’ll have to settle for this suave calfskin vintage men’s coin purse.
That’s right men, you’re going to have to get used to the idea of a purse. But at least at $224, it’s a steal!
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.
I like one dollar coins and I spend them as often as I can. In fact, it’s probably time to bring out a two dollar coin as well.
In any case, it seems like a country that can get used to all the other new stuff they throw at us–like tax returns, Medicare rules, and a new Facebook format every few months–could get used to new kinds of money.
More importantly what will all of Tucson’s plentiful drug users snort their respective drug of choice with? A coin? I don’t think so!