>http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101206/us_yblog_thelookout/government-cant-print-money-properly

That's not the main money anyway, and the money in the US is not issued by government at all. It's issued by The Fed, which is a consortium of private (some foreign, mostly British, IIRC) banks, and so it is for the last 97 years. The mint is just for the paper and coins, which are a small part of it.

>I guess they could call Zimbabwe for advice ... < g >

Any decent counterfeiter would be ashamed of such a botched job, indeed.