I agree. Putting a gun-toting Republican AAD on the front of the 20 dollar bill is a good change.
But as we discussed it, she was all for putting a woman on the bill. I said that while I liked the look of the version of her with the gun and I didn't have anything against Harriet Tubman (and also don't have any affection for Andrew Jackson) I was opposed to the proposed change on three fundamental aspects: 1.) It is political pandering, plain and simple. 2.) There is no need to do it, the $20 bill was redone a few years back with anti-counterfeiting features. 3.) We have more pressing things to do with our money. She pooh-pooed my objections, saying there are a lot of things we spend money on that aren't necessary either, and this was just another one. I countered that we have to take a different approach, using the example of the proposed upgrade of Air Force One as an example. We don't HAVE to do it. We don't even NEED to do it. We can defer it, it is in no way critical. Save a few billion there. Don't mess with the currency for a few years. Save tens of millions of dollars there. As the old saying goes (updated with inflation) "A few billion here, a few billion there, pretty soon we're talking about real money." I said that case anyone hasn't noticed, we are broke...and getting more broke with each passing day. What is the debt now, something like $50,000 for each man, woman, and child in this country? This was driven home to me as I drove to work, and there is a section of chain link fence near the busiest highway in the state that shames everyone who drives by, saying something like "Veteran Benefits Inadequate-Shame on You, America." I read that and thought, every dollar we spend putting Harriet Tubman's face on a bill, or upgrading Air Force One to a shiny new model, is a portion of money we aren't giving to the people we SHOULD be giving it to, or working to pay down our debt before it destroys us. If we were running a household and we were $200,000 in debt, would we pay the money to get Johnny's broken tooth fixed, or would we buy a new home theater system? The answer is obvious. So, that is my main opposition to it. We need to begin hammering on every single financial nail of debt before they turn into nails in our national coffin.
Sigh, sorry about the block of solid text. I had an HTML tag in it...this is easier to read.
Was discussing this with my wife this morning...we don’t talk politics, and it isn’t because she is a liberal...she just doesn’t see it as a topic for discussion. For her, it just is.
But as we discussed it, she was all for putting a woman on the bill. I said that while I liked the look of the version of her with the gun and I didn’t have anything against Harriet Tubman (and also don’t have any affection for Andrew Jackson) I was opposed to the proposed change on three fundamental aspects:
1.) It is political pandering, plain and simple.
2.) There is no need to do it, the $20 bill was redone a few years back with anti-counterfeiting features.
3.) We have more pressing things to do with our money.
She pooh-pooed my objections, saying there are a lot of things we spend money on that aren’t necessary either, and this was just another one.
I countered that we have to take a different approach, using the example of the proposed upgrade of Air Force One as an example. We don’t HAVE to do it. We don’t even NEED to do it. We can defer it, it is in no way critical. Save a few billion there.
Don’t mess with the currency for a few years. Save tens of millions of dollars there. As the old saying goes (updated with inflation) “A few billion here, a few billion there, pretty soon we’re talking about real money.”
I said that case anyone hasn’t noticed, we are broke...and getting more broke with each passing day. What is the debt now, something like $50,000 for each man, woman, and child in this country?
This was driven home to me as I drove to work, and there is a section of chain link fence near the busiest highway in the state that shames everyone who drives by, saying something like “Veteran Benefits Inadequate-Shame on You, America.”
I read that and thought, every dollar we spend putting Harriet Tubman’s face on a bill, or upgrading Air Force One to a shiny new model, is a portion of money we aren’t giving to the people we SHOULD be giving it to, or working to pay down our debt before it destroys us.
If we were running a household and we were $200,000 in debt, would we pay the money to get Johnny’s broken tooth fixed, or would we buy a new home theater system? The answer is obvious.
So, that is my main opposition to it. We need to begin hammering on every single financial nail of debt before they turn into nails in our national coffin.