i've heard of reactionary, but this is ridiculous...

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Lawmaker Seeks To Ban U.S. Currency | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

Mike Pitts, a representative in the South Carolina legislature, has proposed a law that would replace dollars with gold and silver in his state. What do you think?

third (and best) reply:

"Sing ho, for the glories of bimetallism! With South Caroline on the side of Free Silver, there's no stopping us from repealing the Coinage Act and putting William Jennings Bryan in the White House in 1896! Huzzah!"

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Course, my whole view of the "gold standard" folks is that if things really fall apart, how valuable is a bunch of shiny metal with little practical purpose going to be?