Even when the exchange rate is more favorable, our Northern Neighbors who visit here have to adjust to the color similarity of U.S. bills which are printed with the same shade of green. We've witness a tourist who confused an American one dollar bill with a ten. They're not accustomed to checking the numbers on a bill and are perplexed by the absence of a color scheme. Some wags say that they're not surprised that Canadian money isn't worth that much since it looks like Monopoly money anyway. Speaking of money and exchange rates, we read an article a while ago about the black market in U.S. food stamps, those colored-coded coupons that help poor people put some food on the table, distracting them from the viable option of rising up and killing The Man.
Food stamps come in colors like blue for a five dollar coupon and green for a ten.
There's a black market in exchanging food stamps for real money. Usually the coupons are traded at a rate of fifty per cent for cash, i.e. one dollar in stamps will get you fifty cents in real money, so that you can go out and buy drugs, guns, whathaveyou, to annoy The Man. Then it dawned on us. Let's make it really easy for our Northern Neighbors to visit here and spread around some dough. Set up exchange booths at the border and take in Canadian money for American food stamps.