2002-04-04 On a parallel note, I'm sure some of you have heard that the US Mint has announced it has suspended production of the Sacagewea Dollar coin. The news release said it was due to lack of interest by the public. Even though there was more interest in the Sacagewea than in the SBA Dollar, the demand is too small to warrant continuing production. The mint also stated that if there is further interest, they may resume production next year.
I'm sure we all felt it would come to this. As long as we have a government that can't properly plan and implement the introduction of a simple coin to replace the dollar bill, how can we expect the government to lead us into SI? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that in order to get the "new" accepted, you have to take away the "old". The coin would have been totally accepted and the paper dollar forgotten by now, if the paper dollar had been removed from circulation, just like the way Europe removed the old currencies in order to make way for the Euro. If we want to see America metric, we need to do more than just expose the people to metric. We have to rid the country of the old measures at the same time. Or else, the population will cling to the old units. We do this by government laws that require only metric measuring devices be made and certified. As long as pound scales and inch rulers abound and continue to be made, FFU will never be replaced by SI, even if every product is labelled solely in SI. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hillger, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-04-04 11:38 Subject: [USMA:19224] let's go OFF line with the OFF topics messages! Hey guys, lets get back to metric.
