We could put Aaron Burr on them...
Looking at history through a PaulBot straw will keep your
knowledge of history stunted.
Maybe Reagan should be on the 10 instead of replacing Grant. As Grant after all is five times more a unifying figure than Reagan. /sarc
Yeah, I read the book too. Maybe we ought to read a second book before being to insane about a founding father.
Thanks to Hamilton we became the wealthiest most economically powerful nation in the history of mankind, and without him we may never have adopted the greatest governing document in the history of mankind, the U.S. Constitution. I think a little more respect is in order.
Err. Hamilton was against the entire Bill of Rights! He contended, correctly, that a BoR would imply powers not granted ...
I have my differences with Hamilton, but I am opposed to changing our currency. I don’t believe our currency should be chanced over popular visions or revisions of history. For better or worse, each of the men on our currency have their place in history. I have heard buzz about replacing Grant’s face, and I thought about the issue. My conclusion is that we should print I one dollar coin for each president, like we printed quarters for the states. For better or for worse, even the first black president (Obama) would get a coin, which would serve to remind Americans of their past decisions.
BTW: What people call “currency” today isn’t “currency.” It’s fiat paper money.
There is real currency only when there is REAL MONEY on deposit somewhere, for which the currency can be exchanged.
If anything I would like to see Madison and Jefferson seen more prominently on our currency. Jefferson is on the rarely used $2 bill and Madison was on the now defunct $5000 bill.
I’ve read some of what Hamilton wrote. He was not “progressive” in the sense of today. One memorable passage I read was where he talked about the PEOPLE being able to check/retard/reign in a federal government that took too much power.
Even for all he federalist doctrine, he realized a central government COULD go too far.
What would you also do, rid ourselves of any mention of John Adams? He too was a federalist. Made some mistakes, yes, but a good man who helped usher in our founding documents.
C’mon.
Send those offensive bills to me. I can assure you that you will never be forced to gaze upon them again.
If you don’t like looking at Hamilton then take them out of your wallet and send them to me. I don’t particularly care whose face is on our currency, I only look at the corners.....and the higher the number the better.
Hamilton, Sherman, Ames, Wolcott, Morris and the Federalists were the good guys. The Jacobins, those who looked to the French Revolution for inspiration, those who wished to inflate the money supply were in Jefferson’s faction.
If not for Hamilton, tyrants would have destroyed all free governments. Jefferson’s vision of agriculture based society was naive. Without industrial might, we would have watched the world be devoured — including the U.S.
If you want to remove a face, make it Grant.
I'm willing to bet that a removed Hamilton results in an added Cesar Chavez. A removed Grant results in an added Martin Luther King, Jr. A removed Jackson results in an added Hillary Clinton (eventually).
-PJ
And get FDR off the dime.