What I love about America is that if I went to a bank with a business plan
about lobbying the federal government to start a custom minting service
where one could get U.S. legal tender printed with one's own picture in the
corner. What could be more conspicuous consumption than paying $8 for every
$5 bill in your wallet? Anyway, if I went to a bank with that idea as my
business plan they would give me start-up capital. Even the banks realize
they are in the entertainment business in America.

["Business Plan #44897" May 10, 1999]
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