Chump change

This is pretty interesting. It turns out that it now costs the government more than five cents to make a nickel, and it claims that pennies are worth less than a cent. I actually saw something on the evening news that said that the cost of a pennny is now more than one cent because the price of the metals they're made of (mainly zinc these days) is rapidly rising.

Ah, here we go. It now costs 1.4 cents to make a penny. Government efficiency at its finest.