"I hope you aren't insane enough to be coming along on this mission." "What a cheery greeting. That is a gun in your pocket, so I guess you aren't happy to see me."
"Involuntary high officer force reduction."
“Our authority lies very lightly on the reins of world government.” “The horses seem so comfortable it’s almost as though they were not being guided at all." “We govern so skillfully that we never need to use spurs.” “Which is a good thing. Spurs being in short supply around here these days.”
“Sit down, Dad, for heaven’s sake, you’re standing there like a junior employee expecting to be sacked.” “Laid off, anyway. Your budget shrinks month by month.” “I thought we’d solve that by printing our own money." “Good idea. A sort of international money that could be equally worthless in every country, so that it becomes the benchmark against which all other currencies are weighed. The dollar is worth a hundred billion ‘hedges’-that’s a good name for it, don’t you think? The ‘hedge’?-and the yen is worth twenty trillion, and so on.” “That’s assuming that we could keep the value just above zero. The computers would all crash if it ever became truly worthless.” “But here’s the danger. What if it accidentally became worth something? It might cause a depression as other currencies actually fell against the hedge.”
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"What a cheery greeting. That is a gun in your pocket, so I guess you aren't happy to see me."
"Involuntary high officer force reduction."
“Our authority lies very lightly on the reins of world government.”
“The horses seem so comfortable it’s almost as though they were not being guided at all."
“We govern so skillfully that we never need to use spurs.”
“Which is a good thing. Spurs being in short supply around here these days.”
“Sit down, Dad, for heaven’s sake, you’re standing there like a junior employee expecting to be sacked.”
“Laid off, anyway. Your budget shrinks month by month.”
“I thought we’d solve that by printing our own money."
“Good idea. A sort of international money that could be equally worthless in every country, so that it becomes the benchmark against which all other currencies are weighed. The dollar is worth a hundred billion ‘hedges’-that’s a good name for it, don’t you think? The ‘hedge’?-and the yen is worth twenty trillion, and so on.”
“That’s assuming that we could keep the value just above zero. The computers would all crash if it ever became truly worthless.”
“But here’s the danger. What if it accidentally became worth something? It might cause a depression as other currencies actually fell against the hedge.”