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Back in 1998, J. and I started collecting state quarters for our son L.; it seemed fortuitous that the state quarter program had begun the year of his birth, and that he would have long since taken over the collecting himself by the time he turned ten and the last of the state quarters – Hawaii – was about to be released.
Time flies, and here we are ten years later, with L. eagerly awaiting the coin that will complete his collection.
It seems to me very appropriate that the series, nominally undertaken for state pride and tourism but truly just a cheap and relatively painless way to knock $6 to $8 billion off the deficit, should begin under a Democratic president and end under a Democratic president-elect, with the last state represented being his birthplace.
The state motto of Hawaii is Ua mau ke ea o ka aina I ka pono: “The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.”
I am ever the cynic, but still I am hopeful that, under an Obama administration and with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, we might begin to reclaim that ideal for the country as a whole.
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