There is definitely a connection.
"You changed something. Why did you change something? I hate change. I don't understand change. Change is hard. Change is scary. I'm going to remember this at the next election. Don't ever change anything ever ever ever." Carleton From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry Wyeth Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:02 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:47738] Post regarding coinage Coinage is maybe a little off topic, but the miserable experience of the US in handling the dollar coin bit is educational: ALL efforts to really introduce a dollar coin in the US have failed miserably, and the reason is that the mint keeps printing one dollar bills. I like handing out those pretty golden coins, and when I spend them frequently people say "Gee, these are nice. Where can I get some?" (Just go to the bank, duh.) Point is: as long as dollar bills are printed, coins will go nowhere. And it is a lesson for metrication. I say that it has to come from above to really, really catch on. HARRY WYETH
