Posted on 03/17/2016 8:33:03 AM PDT by C19fan
Has “Hamilton” saved Hamilton?
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” said on Wednesday that he had received assurances from Jacob J. Lew, secretary of the Treasury, that admirers of Alexander Hamilton would not be disappointed by a forthcoming redesign of the $10 bill. Mr. Lew has said that he wanted to add a woman’s image to that bill, which now features Hamilton’s portrait. That plan has won support from many, but there have also been complaints from those who don’t want to see Hamilton, the country’s first Treasury secretary, replaced.
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Perhaps Hamilton secretly identified as a woman. Shouldn’t that be enough?
Lincoln or Jackson imho
Libtards love Hamilton because his ideas were a combination of dictatorial monarchy, centralized power, imperialism, and economic mercantilism.
Drop the Dime on FDR.
Wasn’t Hamilton the father of modern conservatism?
Well, he did successfully make the case that our young heavily indebted country should pay its debt instead of defaulting.
Jackson was one of our great Presidents. The only person worth adding or replacing Jackson would be James K. Polk. You can thank these guys that we have Florida, the SW U.S. and the Pacific NW. Of course, we are trying to give the SW back to Mexico.
Maybe the redesigned bill has an image of Hamilton with a bullet hole in him.
Hero of New Orleans not withstanding, I agree and my Cherokee ancestors would if they were here. On the other side, Hamilton practically invented the U.S. Dollar.
Both Presidents. Jackson and Franklin were not. So is the criteria "Founding Fathers Only"? If so, there are better candidates than Hamilton. Honestly, if he had died of a fever rather than a duel and he wasn't on the $10 bill I'm not sure most Americans would have even heard of him. I mean, how many know who Edmund Randolph was? Or Henry Knox? With resumes every bit as illustrious as Hamilton's, why aren't they on any bills?
Not suggesting Randolph or Knox should be on any bill. Just asking what makes Hamilton so special as compared to, say, John Adams who isn't on a bill at all?
Andrew Jackson wasn’t a President?
Get rid of Jackson, replace him with Reagan.
Oh, and put Reagan on the dime, too. Replace a genocidal tyrant and a socialist with a true American hero, and watch Leftist heads explode.
If someone has to go, it should be Lincoln, who suspended Constitutional Rights.
I’m guessing the Federal Reserve wanted to pay homage to the first champion of a single currency and a national bank.
ROFL
ALL should go. Even the greatest of men will have their detractors.
There were never a more beautiful currency than when Liberty/Peace were their hallmarks. True, that was when we had actual $$$ too
I'm agreeing. I still say "so what?" That entitles him to a permanent spot on US currency? Ask the average American how important Hamilton's position on the defunct First Bank of the US is to them. You'll probably get "Who? And what bank again?"
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