Honor the immigrant boy who would shape America

The Seattle Times ^ | July 3, 2015 | Scott L. Montgomery

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Removing Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill would be an injustice.

THIS Fourth of July, as Americans contemplate their country’s birth and today’s global status, which founding father might they single out for celebration? Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison would be likely choices. But they would be the wrong ones.

For 200 years, the man who did most to set the United States on the path to prosperity and world power has been treated as a second-tier founder. Alexander Hamilton shares no granite on the face of Mount Rushmore, nor is he granted a monument or memorial in our nation’s Capitol. Adding insult to injustice, the U.S. Treasury has decided to strip Hamilton from the $10 bill, his only national tribute.

Yet history makes clear that we inhabit a land built by Hamilton’s ideas. This land has a strong central government, a massive military, an economy fueled by entrepreneurship, global trade and diverse industries. It has a national bank (the Federal Reserve) and invests greatly in science and technology. It is also a nation of immigrants, great cities and the goal (though often mixed with other purposes) to further democracy. The United States abolished slavery, eventually, which Hamilton — the only founder among those mentioned who never owned a slave — detested.

Hamilton was the one to see the perils and possibilities of the coming century. He spoke of Britain, at times injudiciously, as a nation to learn from — it would lead Europe by its launch of a revolution in industry. America needed to follow its lead and grow strong, or it would be prey. The War of 1812 proved him all too prescient.

[Rembrandt]

I propose the Mint print one $18 trillion note and put a pic of the Kenyan on it. Not that I’m against the poor, dear, boyish tyrant, but they COULD put under the pic “Wanted Dead or Alive.”

[Catmom]

Then keep him on the $10 bill.

[21twelve]

Interesting that this is from the Liberal rag the Seattle times. Although Hamilton WAS big government - which the article points out.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Although Hamilton WAS big government - which the article points out.

That's probably why they admire him.

[PGR88]

Remove FDR from the dime. He and that other great progressive, Earl Warren, imprisoned all the Japanese on the West Coast in WWII

[Stanwood_Dave]

Tell one and all of the anti gun people, that they should not use or process a Alexander Hamilton $10 bill.

Why you may ask, because Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with a sitting Vice-president Aaron Burr.

The Burr–Hamilton duel was a duel between two prominent American politicians: the former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr, on July 11, 1804.[1] At Weehawken in New Jersey, Burr shot and mortally wounded Hamilton. Hamilton was carried to the home of William Bayard on the Manhattan shore, where he died the next day.

Why would two people {Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr} with ties to NEW York, have a Duel in New Jersey. Answer simple: States Rights concerning Dueling. New York outlawed it, New Jersey still allowed it {Dueling.}

[broken_arrow1]

I think it is a good thing. We unconsciously recognize paper dollars as money. Put a woman on the $10. or pictures of Obama’s dog, and people will start to realize the American dollar is an illusion.

[gingerbread]

These liberals, socialists and communists have been trying to change our history for the last 100 years. Now, they have become more brazen. If they are allowed to continue, we won’t have any history left. Now, since they have this idea of putting a woman on a $10 dollar bill, I will suggest “MISS PIGGIE”. She is less threatening and sure as hell more entertaining.