It can still happen

My friend at work was looking at her change from the soda machine and was thinking she got ripped off with another foreign coin. It turned out to be a 1866 3 cent nickel. Anyone have an experience like this recently. I think we all still get silver once in a while but I have never heard of a coin that old being found by anyone I knew for a very long time

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Permalink Reply by Gary on March 23, 2009 at 2:28pm

It thought the uk already looked like that, with tourist and all. All joking aside, I'm talking about people standing in long lines for jobs, soup and food lines, and people look like the kids we see in africa and the great depression pics. We have not go even close to that bad. You know even if you lived in your vehicle or tent now is a lot more than a lot of people had to live in back then.

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Permalink Reply by Gary on March 23, 2009 at 2:32pm

Sorry I've never heard so much BS. Go to newyork, buy you a cardboard box, now you get to have $10 dollar to take with you. Live outside for a month, then maybe you get the ideal of what being homeless or a depression is about.

Indentured Servant said:

Gary said:
I don't think we are quiet in a depression yet. We still have a ways to fall to get to that. You might want to read up on your history of depressions and look at pictures of the 1929 great depression to see what one looks like. It kinda like people were calling this a recession before it was. Then again if enough believe it is and wish hard enough it will be one. I guess people have to live through something harsh to feel important. Sorry maybe I don't understand situation enough, but I know its not a depression yet.

I'm fortunate in that just for my own education I started studying the history of the US economy 22 months ago because I did not understand how the US and it's citizens could sustain such large debt loads. (a subject I've wondered about since I left high school in '85) It was a real eye-opener. As a result I'm down 8.1% for 2009 instead of the 40+% most are down. My personal belief is that we are in a depression and it will get MUCH worse and last longer than the Great Depression. I sincerely hope I'm wrong. Apologies for being off-topic.
Bill
Keeping the power of positive pessimism alive and well!
(Expecting the worst while hoping for the best)