Found Money

According to the BBC, in April, US troops found $100million plus 90million euros while searching a house in Baghdad. Also, the week before, they found $650million in the same neighborhood.

All this cash has been flown out of the country "to a secure location for counting purposes" although it also says they counted it in 5 hours. I suppose it's being checked closely for counterfeits, too.

Anyway, the US Central Command said, "Funds will remain secure until a stable government is established in Iraq and will ultimately be returned to the Iraqis to assist in the re-building of their nation."

As someone who will paying, "to assist in the re-building of their nation", for the rest of my life....... I say, well isn't that special. :mad:

THATS where i left it. give it back.

Well, at last count, the contractors over there had "lost" over $9 billion, so I suppose it's inevitable that a few stashes will be found.

I found $10 in my laundry the other day, my wife took it.

Damn, that beats the extra $20 bill I got from an ATM about 10 years ago.

Did you get to keep it?

Yeah, I kept it. I'm sure a great chorus of dwellars will step forward to smack me down for my rationalizations--but my first instinct was to give it back. However, after I thought about it for a bit, I determined that the true owner of the cash was the bank that operated the ATM, and if I had been at a bank I would probably have taken it in & given it to a teller. But this particular ATM was at a grocery store, and I just didn't think there was a very good chance that it'd make it back to the bank if I passed it on to one of the store employees.

I didn't mean it that way, I was joking about my wife.

Oh I see.. LOL. Well you know me... I probably spent it on booze anyway.

SteveDallas wrote:

Yeah, I kept it. I'm sure a great chorus of dwellars will step forward to smack me down for my rationalizations--but my first instinct was to give it back. However, after I thought about it for a bit, I determined that the true owner of the cash was the bank that operated the ATM, and if I had been at a bank I would probably have taken it in & given it to a teller. But this particular ATM was at a grocery store, and I just didn't think there was a very good chance that it'd make it back to the bank if I passed it on to one of the store employees.

Are you sure the bank didn't come back to your account later and take the money back? While you frantically searched and balanced your statments for months trying to figure out why you were off 20 bucks?

SteveDallas wrote:

Oh I see.. LOL. Well you know me... I probably spent it on booze anyway.

Have I offended you?

rkzenrage wrote:

I found $10 in my laundry the other day, my wife took it.

Your wife is into money laundering? And you post that to the world? Well, it would make a divorse easier to obtain.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Anyway, the US Central Command said, "Funds will remain secure until a stable government is established in Iraq and will ultimately be returned to the Iraqis to assist in the re-building of their nation."

As someone who will paying, "to assist in the re-building of their nation", for the rest of my life....... I say, well isn't that special.

It will become extra special when the Iraqis demand interest payments on the capital "detained" by the US government!

[fingers in ears] la la la la [SIZE="1"]I don't want to hear about interest[/SIZE] la la la la [fingers in ears]

SteveDallas wrote:

Well you know me... I probably spent it on booze anyway.

Whew, that's a relief....I was afraid you'd wasted it. :sweat:

Now that the terrs know all about our watching their electronic money transfers, they can quit doing that -- and transfer remarkably large sums of money the oldfashioned, slow, and inefficient way to keep it off the Belgians' radar. And not only can we catch 'em at it, not only is it vulnerable to robbery, but each transferror suffers agonies of temptation to skim just a little. The hostiles' funds become inefficient, and terrorism, which is as big a money pit as conventional war man for man, slumps.

I seem to remember, right after 9-11, one of the plans the US announced they were going to implement was going after the money.
They openly stated they were digging into the financing of terrorism, globally.
Did the terrorists not believe it or think the US government incapable of being successful? Pretty stupid either way...anybody can tell you the one thing the US government can do well is,.... grab the money.:D

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Pretty stupid either way...anybody can tell you the one thing the US government can do well is,.... grab the money.:D

I think Tom DeLay finally figured that one out.

rkzenrage wrote:

Have I offended you?

Nope, not a bit--I was joking. (Well, I probably did buy some booze soon after.)

Goody.