All though, for giggles, I ventured out this weekend to investigate one of your suggested Windex cleansed purveyors of meat slurries (...since you'd have to lug around eight pounds of metal to buy a freaking Big Mac!), and to my amazement, the debit card ruled the day.  Who'da thunk it with what passes for 'dollar value' meals?  Bottom line J-man, the discussion on paper currency does merit conversation as much as you personally are in opposition of it.  Speaking for myself, what use to be commonly utilized in $20 bills as recent as the early 90's nowadays has become $100 bills.  The $1 bill, yes they are a convenience, however, I do question the merit of some of the rapidly replaced $5, $10, and $20 bills.  Would five $20 pieces really weigh most folk down?  I doubt it.  Would that impede most vending services or as you put, be an unfunded mandate on business with necessary advancement from the buggy whip days?  Not so sure about that yet either as even parking meters now use cards and cell phone monetary payment options.

An aside, I do find the corner that the knuckle draggers boxed themselves in with Barack Odowngrade to be rather amusing.

Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne told reporters in Montreal on Friday that he expected negotiations to shift into high gear over the weekend, but called the agreements the UAW has already reached with General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. "overly generous."

King has been at the bargaining table in Auburn Hills since Wednesday -- a day after concluding a tentative agreement on a new national contract with Ford.

Negotiators from the company and the union reached provisional agreements on most of the contract language weeks ago. But they were unable to overcome their differences on health care cost-sharing, caps on entry-level workers and signing bonuses.

Tensions remain between King and Marchionne, who has publicly accused the UAW leader of sidelining his company while he negotiated new contracts with the other Detroit automakers.

The contract between Chrysler and the UAW expired Sept. 14, but both sides agreed to extend it until Oct. 19.

If they cannot reach a new agreement, the only option is arbitration. The UAW gave up its right to strike Chrysler as a condition of the federal government's 2009 bailout of the bankrupt automaker.