Conservatives Want FDR Replaced With Reagan on Dimes

TBO.com ^ | 12/05/03 | Erica Werner

[Prime Choice]

Picture that...

[kattracks]

Wonderful!

[Aracelis]

I'm all for this kind of "change"...I'm sick of looking at FDR.

[Moonman62]

Supporters of the "Ronald Reagan Dime Act" said Roosevelt and his government-expanding New Deal represented decades past, ...

And besides, the Republicans now have their own government-expanding New Dealer. (No, I don't mean Reagan.)

[kattracks]

Which has absolutely nothing to do with this story.

[jaykay]

I'd rather see Reagan on a $1 coin, a big one that looks like a buck and can't be mistaken for a quarter.

[Moonman62]

Yes it does. I quoted a line in the story that seems quite ironic.

[kattracks]

The story has to do with FDR & President Reagan. Nothing, or no one else.

[Moonman62]

The story has to do with taking FDR off the dime and putting Ronald Reagan on it. I'm all for honoring Reagan. He earned it. However, we can't justify taking FDR off the dime by criticizing him for something the Republicans are currently doing.

[lentulusgracchus]

Eisenhower is on the dollar coin -- the big one, not the Woman of the Year Dollar.

Ike's on the buck, Lincoln's on the penny. That's two Republicans.

FDR is on the dime, Jefferson on the nickel, JFK on the half.

But before you think that the 'Rats have a lead, remember that Washington (quarter) and Ben Franklin were both Federalists, which, with the Whig Party intervening, was the direct ancestor of the Republican Party.

Susan B. Anthony doesn't count, since the coin was massively and humiliatingly repudiated -- so much for Jimmy Carter's effort to kiss up to the women's vote. And Sacajawea wasn't even a citizen of the United States; she was a member of an Indian nation. (Shoshoni, I think.) The god Mercury was, well, a deity and above politics, and so are Lady Liberty and the eagle. The Indian heads on the nickel and the small gold coins pre-1933 fall in the same category as Sacajawea: non-citizens.

[Grut]

The story has to do with FDR & President Reagan. Nothing, or no one else.

Kind of. It also has to do with Republicans wrapping themselves in Reagan's mantle even as they repudiate it by spending wildly, so Moonman has a point.

[jaykay]

I haven't seen one of those big Eisenhower Silver Dollars in years. Now that was a dollar coin.

[weegee]

I don't think that Ike coins have been made since the 1980s.

Richard Nixon and LBJ never got any currency.

Ronald Reagan could replace Benjamin Franklin since he was never elected President.

[lentulusgracchus]

Yes, the ones I used to carry were just tin, but there were a few silver ones minted. I still have a base one somewhere, tucked in as an example with some silver Morgans and Peace dollars.

[kattracks]

Moonman's point and obviously yours, is to inject something into this discussion which has nothing to do with the topic of the article.

[lentulusgracchus]

Ronald Reagan could replace Benjamin Franklin since he was never elected President.

Well, that would be the half-dollar, presently occupied by Jack Kennedy with the eagle from the Great Seal on the reverse, which I like a lot. Better to put Ronnie on a re-issued Big Buck, and melt all those Susan B.'s and Sacajaweas down as a failed coin type. Let the collectors grab a few examples, and then off to the smelter with them!

[101st-Eagle]

Excuse me. Does anyone have a photo of a Roosevelt dime? I don't think I have ever seen one given I never have any money left after paycheck taxes; thanks in part to his nanny-state policies.

[DonQ]

Geez Louise, they're not allowed to put a living person on a US coin. And Reagan is still alive ... officially. Can't they at least wait until he's dead?

[Cagey]

Moonman's point and obviously yours, is to inject something into this discussion which has nothing to do with the topic of the article.

And that's the first time that's ever happened on a thread here.