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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 130448, member: 3011&quot;]The profit from the Mint is about enough money to run the federal government for two and a half hours if you don&#039;t count social security or medicare or off budget items.&nbsp; If you count those items, it&#039;s a blink of an eye.&nbsp; It&#039;s a rounding error.&nbsp; But it&#039;s interesting to see the comments from people who almost seem upset that some of our money actually has intrinsic value at the present time.&nbsp; I expect them to keep the cent and nickel.&nbsp; If the metal prices stay high for a couple of years, they&#039;ll probably look into changing the compostion again.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure it would be politically acceptable to round everything up to the nearest dime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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