http://www.timesnews.net/article/9089540/thanks-obama-obama-blamed-for-kingsport-counterfeiting She should have blamed the Fed.
I mean, she read it online. To say Obama DIDN'T make a law allowing her to print money is just a biased point of view.
I wouldn't even know where to start when it comes to making legit counterfeit (oxymoron) money, but if I did, I figure the only two places you could use without a serious fear of getting caught by the law would be drugs and buying from ticket scalpels.
Counterfeit money is hard, hard, hard to do. The paper alone is a very special paper and cannot easily be copied. And if people look for the security strip in the paper, forget about it. But you can pass it off if you do it smartly and choose your targets. I know when I was a cashier at Kroger (I was 19 years old), I know for a fact I took a fake 100 dollar bill. I thought it felt funny when he gave it to me, but didn't think too much about it. Later, after he left, I took it and snapped it in my hands, and a corner came off very easily. Again, I didn't think anything about it, as I was young and stupid. But now, I know for a fact it was fake.
With the thread fibers in it, much less the security strip? I know you can simulate the feel of it, but the paper itself I thought (sans the security strip even) was fairly hard to come by. But my knowledge is from documentaries and articles on paper money and its history, so I very well may be wrong. EDIT: Unless you are talking about raising dollar bills.
I can go to the bank right now, and for $100, buy 100 sheets of the necessary paper (100, $1 bills). If I were enterprising enough, I could then bleach that paper, and turn it into.. $5 (no strip), $10 (no strip), or $20 (no strip). And make a nice little profit. And all I had to do was go buy the paper. From a bank!
That would be my biggest fear if I was the Secret Service. Nation States sponsoring the counterfeiting will make something just as real as the real thing.
If they were smart they would shut that operation down and negotiate a short term nuclear deal while this administration is still in office.