Jackson wouldn’t be among my favorites but leave him on the bill.
Slate is anti American, they are haters of this country. Nothing they say matters except to other haters
Anyone believe that the demodummies will push to get odumbo’s photo on our money as our nations first (and hopefully last) black president?
Odumbo has done more to divide blacks and whites in this country than anyone in history. He sure as hell does not deserve to have his name on anything and it should be stricken from our history books. He has been a disaster since day one.
Whatever else he did deserves forgiveness. He closed the 2nd Bank of the US and put Nicholas Biddle out of business. That is enough to make him a great president.
I’m OK with this...as long as it’s Ronald Reagan replacing him. :)
The Democrats still call their annual awards dinner “the Jefferson Jackson banquet.”
I often tease them about having a dinner named for two slaveholders, in which they often present awards to black people for staying on the Democrat party plantation.
Jackson is on the 20 because he was a great president.
Those who have bad things to say about him only speak of the politically correct indian situation.
Ignoring that, there’s nothing wrong w/him. He was a no-nonsense man of the people and probably would’ve been a TEA party candidate were he alive today.
He got on the bill, I think, because he did a lot to expand the territory.
If you have a problem w/the U.S. existing because the indians were “here first”, I can see why you wouldn’t like him.
I, however, was never the sap for such propaganda.
He also killed the bank, which imo was one of the greatest acts in American history. The trail of tears WAS genocide.
The only people really upset about this kind of stuff are the idiots on both the left and right who look for “good” people vs demons in history.
The lesson I have learned from history is that all men are weak, corrupt, dissimulating, and unworthy to be trusted with power.
The liberals want to kill the hagiography we have erected around early american leaders. I do, too. Not because I hate “America” but because I hate the lie that we are a “good” nation due to our leaders and laws.
We are a FORTUNATE nation due to the fact that in the past we were largely left alone to pursue our own wants and centralized government was set up to be weak, ineffectual and powerless.
This is no longer the case. Many so called “patriots” want to see us continue to have a strong central government (war and foreign intervention DEMANDS a strong central government) to protect us from enemies abroad..... and bad choices we may make for ourselves. They are fascists and control freaks no less than the left. They just have bibles in their hands instead of Marx.
Jackson was a case study in why even good men (he did kill the central bank) are not to be trusted with power. If I were in that class, I would argue that Jackson’s portrait on the 20 is reason numero uno that the left’s prescription for central power is dangerous and wrong.
I long for the day when the so called “conservatives” will realize that the warfare state IS the welfare state and you can’t buy half the cow and take it home. Then we can join the SLATE author here, and use his own illustrations to defeat his arguments. Till then, conservatives will remain mirror images of the left..... both wanting a strong centralized state, but just wanting it to do different things.
Wish we had AJ around today.
He’d kick Obama’s ass all day long up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Then for good measure he’d put his boot up Boehner’s and McConnell’s backsides for being such losers.
I look at him and remember that it’s been that long since we had no debt.
Harriet Tubman?
Hell, I nominate Mumia.
Slate focusing on the big issues of the day.
If anyone needs to be removed from the money, it’s Grant. What did he do? Yes, he was a Civil War general, but he’s at or near the top of most expert’s Worst U.S. President lists.
Still, it’s such a minor thing.
Marxist “multi-culturalism” blowing in the wind.
There can be no doubt that this ‘nation’ is no nation at all. We have huge irreconcilable differences that are becoming more evident everyday.
While Jackson was indeed repugnant because of his ethnic cleansing, far worse was his refusal to recharter the Second Bank of the United States, and his “specie circular”, that plunged America into its worst depression until the Great Depression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837
Throughout his term, he could have mitigated much of this disaster, but instead he waited until just before leaving office to pull the rug out from under the US economy.
Importantly, this just destroyed his successor, a man he hated, his own vice president Martin Van Buren, also a Democrat, because he was pro-business and had wealthy friends, whom Jackson bitterly hated and wanted to destroy.
The Andrew Jackson depression lasted seven years.
And true to form, in his efforts to hurt and harm the wealthy, most of the people who were ruined were the middle class and poor.
It has been said that Mark Twain’s character Pap Finn, father of Huckleberry Finn, was pretty much a typical Jacksonian Democrat: he had never had $50 in his pocket, and hated anyone who ever had, because he was convinced that he had to have made that $50 by ‘keeping him (Finn) down’, so he wanted the government to take that $50 away.
We should return to the ‘old’ standard...Lady Liberty and the like. Such beauty and art in those days.
Of course, then it would make it difficult to know the difference between REAL $$ and fiat currency
He had a $20 bill for lunch? What neighborhood was he raised in?
Wow, you personally had $20 bills in HS? I only ever saw GW back in the 60s.
I agree and disagree.
I would like to see all of the so called hero,s off of the bills as i do not like slavers any better than i do killers, but since this is a Government run by the people who is really to blame?
Jackson did not put himself in the office as president no more than bozo did, he was put there by the nutty people who are supposed to be governing this nation.
As for the rape, suicide, diabetes, schooling, etc.
Much of that is caused by the people of those tribes themselves, don,t worry about it.
Dems likely choices for the $20 bill:
Either Obama
Either Clinton
Che Guevara
Cesar Chavez
Ted Kennedy
Al Gore
Matthew Shepard
Margaret Sanger
Al or Jesse
Trayvon Martin