Posted on 06/17/2015 5:55:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew is set to announce on Thursday that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten dollar bill, in favor of a woman.
The change could happen as soon as 2020.
The announcement came via Nancy Lindborg, president of the US Institute of Peace, who tweeted out the news....
...The choice to replace Hamilton on the $10 bill as opposed to President Jackson on the $20 bill is a curious one.
There were clear reasons to replace Jackson on the bill. Jackson has long been reputed as a deeply flawed character, who owned hundreds of slaves, executed American soldiers for desertion, and, most heinously, oversaw the relocation of native American tribes from lands promised in previous treaties.
The "Trail of Tears," as it has become known, resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 Cherokee alone. Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Seminole, and other tribes were also forcibly removed.
The reasoning behind the removal of Hamilton is less clear.
As a founding father of the United States and the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton is hardly the controversial figure that Jackson was. In addition, Hamilton is the architect of the early American financial system, having established a national bank, a system of tariffs, friendly trade relations with Britain, and assumed states' debts to solidify the nascent union.
The debate over who should replace Hamilton is far from settled. Lindborg invited people to sound off on Twitter with the hashtag #TheNewTen.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
that should be 25-cents on that bill.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut every now and then. Getting the monarchist off the ten dollar bill is a good idea.
You think like me.
This nonsense can be stopped and needs to be. The "Institute of Peace" is, I think, attempting to help force the issue with this announcement but it doesn't mean that they won't stop trying.
We’re looking for a woman not a black man.I guess we could split the difference and go with Obama.
They keep Jackson on it as it’s the greatest way to stick it to him as he hated central banks. Alexander is the only fall guy thh have as Washington and Lincoln are virtually sacrosanct.
Only to idiots who haven't been paying attention.
Why even change?????
Yep. I reckon we’ll be using more fives, too. Didn’t see Susan B. Anthony dollars much, except in laundromat change machines.
I will boycott the new ten.
why? you can take your money and buy all the gold and silver you want.
Perhaps someone form the LGBT community, then we could say “queerer than a 10 dollar bill.”
now, need proof of the woman thing
Hamilton??? Surely they jest.
Aaron Burr did us a favor.
There should be zero political figures on currency. Images of national monuments and American wildlife like eagles and buffalo. Not one human visage.
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