FuglyDuck

said another way.... they think our food cleanliness is somewhere between "dirty as fuck" and "You eat that?!"

cash is largely minted by the government, and they usually aim to maintain "enough" (currently 2.3k billion dollars currently?)

Most of the money supply is not in physical cash, though- they call that the m1 supply which is found in things like savings and checking accounts, other kinds of deposit accounts, etc.

Currency is added to the economy by buying back government securities (think bonds). Specifically this is the Federal Reserve. we also pay interest on money held at by the Fed. (Banks invest the money.)

Printing more money doesn’t make more value- it actually reduces the individual value of a dollar.

That value needs to come from somewhere.

When a currency is backed by some commodity (we backed by silver and gold, historically.) that value comes from whatever is backing it (ie you could go to a bank and get that stuff.)

Today, the dollar is backed by the confidence of the people using it. Specifically, the confidence in the US government. The value is also affected by supply and demand for that currency.

If the US suddenly decided to print the trillions dollar coin, the market reaction wouldn’t be all that hot. There is some wiggle room but generally not a lot.

If you want to know what happens when you push it too far, check out the Weimar Republic (Germany), Hungary after ww2 and Zimbabwe in the late 2000’s

It’s very much not-good.

In the US, at least, the government has 2 ways it can fund itself.

Taxes, which are collected through a variety of means- income tax, for example, or import taxes, etc. these funds go into the treasury, which then get doled out to pay for things.

If taxes are insufficient, or there's some type of emergency that requires an excess of funds more quickly than they can levy with taxes... the government takes on debt. Specifically, they use a number of different instruments including bonds.

The "national debt" is the the sum of all those bonds, loans and whosiwhats its that are taken out to pay for things. it's the debt that the national government owes to others.

and then somehow blaming Clinton, Biden, or for nostalgia, Obama.

what's funny is we're stopping it's use. very few processors here use chlorine as part of the chilling process. Even then, it's extremely dilute. We now mostly use a diluted peracetic acid (It's vinegar- acetic acid- and hydrogen peroxide.)

edit to clarify: When butchering animals, you want to get the temperature down as quickly as possible after you kill the animal. This keeps the bacteria lower, and reduces the chance of spoilage while increasing it's life. To do that, chicken are chilled in a cold water bath, to which they add the acid (or chlorine.) to reduce it as much as possible, which expends it's shelf life tremendously.

The EU has questions about Chlorine's safety; but more importantly.... they view the use of additives as a way to mask hygiene problems. It's a concern that the poultry is not up to par, and the wash is there to hide the fact or make up for it.

Only if we’re talking about food.

Steggo is BSST-o

"okay, so we're doing the bad idea, yeah?"

This is what they get for buying a Swastikar Wankpanzer.

seriously. with all the YT videos showing how bullet proof it wasn't... why did they ever buy the hype?

Based.

<*bapp*>