Money Money Money
MojoSteve found an interesting case where a woman is suing for an IOU written by the city of Tampa in 1861:
In legal documents, Purdy argues that the statute of limitations doesn’t apply in the case because at the time the note was issued, the state had no such statute on such documents. Spoken like a true ambulance-chaser who smells blood in the water and a payoff around the corner.
Biddle also pointed out that in the 1990s the federal government agreed to pay the Seminole tribe for land illegally taken in the 1820s. Well, I guess forcing indigenous peoples off their land and onto reservations, stripping them of their rights and claims, introducing great stuff like smallpox and syphilis, and destroying their entire culture is pretty much the same as 300 bucks, isn’t it?
Dan is trying to rate the economic woes of today:
I get the sense that this is one of those moments when things are much worse than “they” are letting on. Which makes me think: We need an “F-Scale.” Like, if stuff is just sorta screwed up, but things generally work and you can pretty much expect that you’re going to be able to keep your job and your house and suicide bombers aren’t going to move in next door and really downgrade your property values, that would be F-1.
And then an F-10 would be economic depression, the destruction of the Bill of Rights, civil war and environmental collapse. And so on.
Wayne LeFor has sound advice for developing a budget.
Ivy asks, “What would you do with $50 for a grocery splurge?”
(Photo Credit David B. Gleason)
Heather @ March 19, 2008