Posted on 03/03/2010 7:17:30 AM PST by Palter
Rep. Patrick McHenry's bill to replace Ulysses S. Grant's image with the 40th president's generates controversy.
Ronald Reagan is honored by, among other things, an airport, a freeway, an aircraft carrier and -- ironically for a critic of big government -- one of the biggest federal buildings in Washington.
Now, some of the late president's admirers are launching a new effort to add another honor: printing his likeness on a $50 bill in place of Ulysses S. Grant's.
In polls of presidential scholars, Reagan consistently outranks Grant, said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.), who introduced legislation to make the change.
But at least one Democrat who serves on the House Financial Services Committee, where the proposal has been sent, isn't ready to jettison Grant for "someone whose policies are still controversial."
"Our currency ought to be something that unites us," said Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks).
Grant admirers, who credit him for leading the Union Army to victory during the Civil War, were none too pleased either.
"I'm very upset," said Keya Morgan, a New York-based Grant scholar who has a Web page on the 18th president. "I have all the respect in the world for Reagan, but what he accomplished is not anywhere as important as what Ulysses S. Grant accomplished."
An earlier proposal to put Reagan on the dime in place of President Franklin D. Roosevelt drew objections from Democrats, for whom Roosevelt is as much of a hero as Reagan is for Republicans. An effort to put Reagan on the $20 bill in place of Andrew Jackson drew opposition from Tennessee lawmakers.
A 2005 move to put Reagan on the $50 bill never made it out of the House Financial Services Committee, even though Republicans controlled the chamber at the time.
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The Repubs should compromise. They should tell the Dems that if they vote to have Reagan on the 50, that they will in turn vote to have Bill Clinton on the $3 bill.
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Being the proud Southerner & Confederate supporter that I am, I would love to see Reagan replace Grant on the $50 bill. But Reagan was NOT a strong critic of big government. He may have talked the talk, but he certainly didn’t walk the walk. Far from it!
Grant was a lousy President who ran a corrupt Administration.
Personally, I’d like to Polk’s face on some currency.
But then, Reagan was a great President also.
Either one would be good.
Or even Teddy Roosevelt.
lol. I was gonna say a 25 dollar bill.
Would be even better on the $100 bill. This way all those "Learjet liberals" and lefties get to see and handle it more.
you mean the 57 dollar bill. :)
Amen to that - he never deserved to be on the $50 in the first place. I'd replace him in an instant.
“Our currency ought to be something that unites us,” said Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks).
Do you get the feeling that Rep. Brad Sherman might just drive over and piss on his grave if he thought he could get away with it?
The rock left is unstable for anymore faces.
The way things are going, perhaps he should be put on a $5,000 bill.
But he was a great general and shared Lincoln's magnanimity to the south once the war was over. He just lacked the moral stature and political leadership skills to follow through.
Grant was a war criminal.
I am really surprised that Obama has not already done that. He has attached his name to many programs that have never included the president's name, such as the Obama Mortgage Relief Plan, the Obama Mortgage Plan, the Obama Mom's Back to School Plan, Obama’s Mortgage Modification Plan. After all, as president Obama does have a special stash of money that he can dole out to people.
Not the $50, the $20. Jackson’s banking policies and Indian deportations are both a blot on American history. He shouldn’t be honored with a place on our money.
Actually, I’d rather see Reagan on the $ 20.00 bill.
It is much more commonly used than the $ 50 bill, and we can get rid of that horrid picture of Andrew Jackson, who looks like he escaped from an insane asylum.
I also want to see the Dems heads explode.
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