Currency Clip Art

Contrary to popular belief, money actually does grow on trees.  In offering to quantify the practicality of this notion, first consider that it was up until the U.S. Presidency of Richard Nixon that the United States used so-called "gold backing" to hedge the value of the U.S. dollar.  Since the time that gold backing was removed from the monetary system, the nature of the U.S. currency is now stapled, or revered otherwise, under terms of what is commonly referred to as a "fiat" currency, effectively meaning that it has no more intrinsic value than a pile of Monopoly money.  The visage of currency clip art shown below further offers to quantify this sense of idealism...