Something worthless they can all agree on.
Make a $2.00 coin instead.
Even with his own picture on it, Clinton will never use these coins. They would be too heavy for a g-string to hold up.
shouldn't there be a law against legislating while drunk?
Then, when you get one...you find out it's LIED & it's only a plug nickle. Soon after, it rapes you.
Bad money, man. Baaaaad money.
Any introduction of a dollar coin without corresponding cessation of the dollar bill is going to fail. A dollar coin would be fine with me, and it would make more economic sense considering the short lifespan of a dollar bill.
the last one might have worked except they made it almost exactly the same size as a quarter and countless ones were spent as such. people said to heck with it. doesn't matter who's face was on it - it looked too much like a quarter.
in some places it seems that salary and position are inversely porportional to intelligence.
If they could just get rid of the penny.
If they make the thing the size of the Ike dollar, it might stand a chance.
But their mindset appears stuck on that "just-slightly-larger-than-a-quarter" size that NOBODY likes ...
And they keep wondering why it fails...
I think this is a nefarious plot by the suspender manufacturing cartel.
Back in the early 1990's I got a bunch of Susan B. $1 coins as change from a stamp machine. On the way home I stopped for some fast food and when I paid the girl at the drive through she looked at me as if I was trying to pay with poker chips, or subway tokens. She turned to her manager and held out the 'suspicious' coins and asked "Do we take these?" I had to hide my snicker.
How appropriate - - - heads or tails.
Once they stop making the dollar coin look like a quarter, it might actually succeed.
OK, I read the entire article and it has NOTHING to do with Clinton. Honoring all of the men who have served as President necessarily includes WJC, but it is not because f him or in spite of him that they are considering this.
I'm no fan of Clinton, nor am I an apologist, but bringing him into everything that people think is silly is, well, silly. It's not as though there is a discussion of only using him, nor is there discussion about replacing any existing face with his cherry red mug.
dollar coin actually makes sense
they are cheaper to make and maintain since they can stay in circulation much longer
they do need to come up with one that is actually a good symbol of the US to have any weight though, having an Indian woman or Susan B Anthony is not the way to promote longevity
now if they made one with Reagan i would be supremely happy
We should show the world we have a sense of humor and have a dollar coin with Moe, Larry & Curley on it. I bet it would be real popular then.
ACH!
NO! That's backwards. The only way a dollar coin will work is if the paper dollar is eliminated. As long as there are paper dollars, the dollar coins will go directly into futile coin collections that everyone will have.
The only way to go to a dollar coin is:
1) Eliminate the paper one dollar bill.
2) Produce a one dollar coin that works (and put a president on it).
3) Print lots and lots of two dollar bills.
If it's not done this way, it won't work.
"In 1979, the Treasury Department introduced the Susan B. Anthony dollar, and produced nearly one billion of them between 1979 and 1981.
The Carter administration promoted it with a vengeance, calling it "the dollar of the future."
They hyped its cost-savings -- metal lasts much longer than paper, so you don't need to mint as often as you print.
They hyped its subject -- Anthony was the first woman (if you don't count Lady Liberty) to appear on U.S. money since the early 19th century.
They even hyped its design -- the 11-sided polygon (a hendecagon) was meant to mark a clear difference between the coin and all others.
Despite the fanfare, the public hated it. The Anthony dollar quickly became another quaint relic of the Seventies, like the AMC Pacer. "