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 ...
Could Hamilton identify as a woman?
Jackson was the first Democrat president. All of the things that the left dislike about Jackson are resume enhancers in the new democrap party. Besides, if they start going after bad democrap presidents, where will it end? Clinton most likely wouldn’t want anyone to look into his years in DC.
Almost lost my dinner with that one.
Kanye West’s mother in law???
LOL, just watch the Mess they make of the $10 Bill ,LOL
Ah, I see now. Thanks.
LEAVE THE FREAKING MONEY ALONE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Rachel Dolezal!!!
Monica.
And she actually DID something! (At considerable risk to herself, I might add)...
Hamilton is the only of the Framers who was, more than likely, part black. Put that out there and he’ll stay on the bill.
If they absolutely have to have a woman, Dolly Madison or Molly Pitcher - the latter being America’s first female NCO, back in the Revolutionary War.
Like all the suggestions; but if the half breed has anything to do with it, the replacement will be either Frank Marshall Davis or an ISIS “warrior”.
Sarah Palin. Duh.
Yeah, Monica Lewinsky would add a new dimension to the phrase “I blew ten bucks on that ...”
so now the face of our currency will be a political thing. What’s next? probably tacking off ‘In god we trust” or changing it to “Allah Akbar”
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