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Todays entry was spawned by dinner at Buca di Beppo, where three pasta dishes and appetizer costed our party of eight college students about $140 (including tip and tax). While paying, it flashed before my mind how amazing it is that we could exchange all $140 worth of food for a mere few sheets of paper. After all, paper currency is in itself worthless. It's only when the people exchanging the paper believe in its worth.

I believe many American fail to realize the power behind money. Money has such a primary role in our American culture, yet we fail to realize how much money is actually worth. We know it feels good to have cold hard cash in a wallet or purse, but how much is that really worth? How much do you think it cost the government to produce the two twenty dollar bills? Yet everyone is willing to work like a slave to attain it. Furthermore, we spend every cent of it trying to forget the long hard day spent earning it!