Posted on 03/25/2015 9:55:51 PM PDT by rey
Article about drive to replace Jackson on the $20.
Candidates: http://www.womenon20s.org/candidates
ALICE PAUL (1885 - 1977) BETTY FRIEDAN (1921 - 2006) SHIRLEY CHISHOLM (1924 - 2005) SOJOURNER TRUTH (C.1797 - 1883) RACHEL CARSON (1907 - 1964) ROSA PARKS (1913 - 2005) BARBARA JORDAN (1936 - 1996) MARGARET SANGER (1879 - 1966) PATSY MINK (1927 - 2002) CLARA BARTON (1821 - 1912) HARRIET TUBMAN (C.1822 - 1913) FRANCES PERKINS (1880 - 1965) SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820 - 1906) ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (1884 - 1962) ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815 - 1902)
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Next up; drag queen Rupaul to be nominated by the Transgenders to be on a physical version of Bit(ch)Coin.
Sorry. Jackson’s bitter prejudice against native Americans and his contempt for the rule of law [Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)] renders him unfit for being commemorated on our currency.
There are some fine women in that list but better than half of them belong on TP more than they do on currency.
Lacking a woman president to put on a bill, how about Rosa Parks? Don’t know much about her life, but seems like she’d be the least controversial of all of these women. Her action, albeit a brief moment in time, definitely was catalyst for change.
I’m with you. I think Coolidge and Cleveland are undersold. I love citing them in arguments with libs about who are good Presidents just cause it makes their heads explode. You have to be careful about letting liberal “brain” matter touch you though. It’s like zombieism, if you get it on you, you risk catching it and becoming a Democrat yourself.
“...bitter prejudice against native Americans...”
Jackson got remarkable service from his own Indian forces at Horseshoe Bend.
They’d swear off of money entirely, which would leave more it for the normal people like us!!
Pancho Villa on the five-dollar bill by 2050.
Well, you asked...
And she was standing for a principle that conservatives can relate to, not some liberal fantasy derived from poorly functioning neurons.
i vote for monica lewinsky
There was a time when I would have been a Democrat... (1880’s -1890’s). People ask me what my politics are and I tell them that philosophically I am a Bourbon Democrat. They usually look at me like I just stepped off a flying saucer.
Just replace the bust image with a tiny paper mirror. Then every woman who looks at the note can see an image of herself.
possibly. i’m related to tony blair by marriage. lipsets. my fathers cousins called him bunny when he was a kid at the hotel in ballyshannon.
Jackson vehemently opposed central banks, so it is a great inside joke by the Federal Reserve that he is on the most common bill.
That said, we have really not changed up our money very much in the last 80 years (Commonly Circulated Coins: Penny - Lincoln - 1909; Nickel - Jefferson - 1938; Dime - FDR - 1946; Quarter - Washington - 1932 || Federal Notes up to $100 same since 1928)
The dime was the last commonly circulated coin or note to have a new figure established, and that was 69 years ago now.
I wouldn’t mind some updates. My choices would be James Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, James Monroe, Ronald Reagan, and Lady Liberty.
If forced to choose from that group, I say Eleanor Roosevelt, gets it. No, for Rachael Carson, the environmental alarmist, Bleep-No! for Margaret Sanger, the early promoter of eugenics via proliferation of abortion as birth control.
Who would I bring up for consideration?
The late physicist and astronaut Sally Ride, the first American Woman in space and the youngest American astronaut to actually travel into space. Naming an astronaut may serve as an inspiration to students to study hard stay committed.
and it’s not money anyways. they are FRN’s and legal tender.
It took 30 posts to find the obvious answer.
You can put hillary’s a$$ on it if it was real money. backed in gold. os something of real value.
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