I Was Just Getting Used to the Last New Currency

The folks at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are at it again - changing our currency to make it look more and more like something printed by Milton Bradley than the US Mint:

The folks who print America's money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill. It's part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says.

The makeover, unveiled Wednesday, may leave people wondering if there is magic involved.

Benjamin Franklin is still on the $100 bill, also known as C-note, but he has been joined by a disappearing Liberty Bell in an inkwell and a bright blue security ribbon composed of thousands of tiny lenses that magnify objects in mysterious ways. Move the bill and the objects move in a different direction.

The government hopes the new bills will make it harder for high-tech counterfeiters to replicate.

The new currency will not go into circulation until Feb. 10 of next year, giving the government time to educate the public in the United States and around the world about all the changes.

Well, at least they have one thing going for them. Thanks to Obama and the Democrats they won't have to print as many as they might have had to before. People just don't have that much money anymore.