Posted on 06/22/2015 11:20:10 AM PDT by Mozilla
The Treasury Department announced on June 17, that Hamilton would be replaced and diminished on the $10 bill in order to feature a woman to be announced at a later date. The goal is to have new bills out by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.
“Our democracy is a work in progress. We’ve always been committed to a more perfect union,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said according to CBS News. ”This decision to put a woman on the $10 reflects our aspirations for the future, as much as it is a reflection of the past.”
Secretary Lew said that Hamilton might not be outright replaced, but may be featured in a diminished role or on a limited number of bills. However, whether removed or diminished, shoving Hamilton aside on American currency is a slap in the face to the man often regarded as the father of the American financial system. Hamilton was arguably the greatest, and certainly most consequential, treasury secretary in American history. His statue in Washington D.C. stands right in front of the Treasury Department, which now insults his memory.
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That the Treasury Department under Secretary Lew would so shamelessly ditch the man who truly made it great is an embarrassment. Americans should be outraged that a man as crucial as Hamilton to our country’s history and existence is being so thoughtlessly shunted aside for the insistent campaign that a woman be placed on American currency.
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Maybe all the Hillary! supporters that show up for her campaign shows could be paid with the Hillary! bills.
Harvey Milk on the $1.00
Margaret Sanger on the $2.00
Mary Harris Jones on the $5.00
Barack 0bama on the $10.00
Julius Rosenberg on the $20.00
Malcolm Little on the $50.00
Elijah Robert Poole on the $100.00
I haven’t worked out the coins yet ...
But replace John F. Kennedy with Edward M. Kennedy on the half ...
My guess is either a foreign women or Margret Sanger.
Bruce Jenner on the $3.00
Statutes? Our Glorious Leader is not bound by petty annoyances such as statutes. Laws are for the little people.
noun, plural democracies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
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