Posted on 08/05/2014 3:20:56 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
President Obama created a minor stir last week when he said it would be "a pretty good idea" to put more women's faces on U.S. currency.
Could it happen? It turns out that changing the lineup of dead presidents on paper currency is within the power of the Obama administration.
An 1862 act of Congress gives the secretary of the Treasury near-complete authority over the design and printing of paper currency, while Congress retains the power of coinage under the Constitution.
Adding women would mean either creating a denomination or bumping one of the familiar men adorning the front of paper currency.
The White House said it had no announcement on the design of greenbacks. "I don't have anything to report to you on the faces on our currency," spokesman Eric Schultz said.
Obama opened up the issue in an economic speech in Kansas City last week.
"A young girl wrote to ask me why aren't there any women on our currency, and then she gave me like a long list of possible women to put on our dollar bills and quarters and stuff — which I thought was a pretty good idea," he said.
The White House would not disclose the contents of the letter but said it was written by a girl from Massachusetts.
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This will definitely correct the problems we are facing.
We long ago became a silly country. Bad things happen to silly countries.
We will have deserved it.
Jeane Kirkpatrick.
As our currency is degraded to an ever-receding value near zero, this is a horrific assault on women, typical of Democrats and Democrat tactics. While our currency was fine as long as old white men were pictured thereon, it’s only when being dragged through the dirt that Democrats find it fortuitous to place womens’ pictures on our bills. By the time Nancy Pelosi’s picture appears on a twenty, I wouldn’t wipe my rear end with one.
Liberty walking can make a comeback!
This is going to become a reality, mark my words.
This is a dry run - to gauge public opinion and get the left-wing factions of the Rat party thinking. If there's a backlash, the administration will simply deny it and call us kooks. But if enough feminists, homosexual activists, blacks, envirowackos, etc start a whispering campaign, it'll leak into the nightly news and the debate will begin. Then it'll go from women on money to homosexual activists, blacks, enviromentalists, liberal authors....
The Left is famous at doing this, and nobody mastered it better than Clinton.
A special-issue coin would be fine but I don’t want to see Lincoln bumped off the penny or Washington pushed off the dollar. There is such a thing as tradition.
“How bout Bettie Page?”
When I was about 12, I discovered Bettie in one of my Dad’s photo magazines. Made me think, ‘Girls are interesting after all!”
The new million dollar bill will be coming out pretty soon, but because of inflation it will soon be replaced by the billion dollar bill.
i could live with that
First they monkeyed with our presidents’ birthdays, and now they want to create dissent by screwing around with the currency so it’s more diverse.
(I can’t wait for a three dollar coin adorned with Richard Simmons in his glittery short shorts.)
Horse pucky, I say.
How ‘bout we concentrate on more important issues facing this country?
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Jenny Lind (The Swedish Nightingale), Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Curie (on Polish currency), Lady Liberty
He must be unfamiliar with the Liberty Dollar featuring Lady Liberty. In fact he must be unfamiliar with Liberty at all.
Oh, boy, maybe they promised Moochelle that she would be on a $1000 note.
presidents go on paper.
let one win the presidency and they will be certain to have a spot. i suggest giving them kennedy’s half-dollar spot.
Does the Angry Meal count?
Joan Rivers, to haunt everyone who is anti-American or anti-Israel. Make it a 34-dollar bill in honor of her “34 long” joke.
Please, Esther from Sanford & Son was a lady to her fingertips compared to la Moochelle.
Anyway, those of us old enough to remember the “Susan B. Anthony” dollar coin, twelve sided, reduced in size, and with that Wicked Witch gargoyle face on the obverse, also recall what Joan Rivers said about it:
“I won’t put her in the same pocket with George Washington because he’ll turn gay!”
OTOH, whatever became of the Sacajawea dollar coin from fourteen years ago?
Answer, America’s collective memory won’t accept either Susan B. or Sacajawea on the dollar coin not because we’re misogynists, but because the traditional dollar coin was a full sized silver “cartwheel” that now trades for many times its face value.
Given the non-popularity of Sacajawea coins, I don’t think this will be more than a failed endeavor.
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