Excuse me?
Posted on 07/31/2014 9:00:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(Newser) – The days of American paper money being an all-boys club could be numbered. President Obama said yesterday that he had received a letter from a young girl wondering why there were no women on US bills, "and then she gave me a long list of possible women to put on our dollar bills and quarters and stuff, which I thought was a pretty good idea," reports the Hill, which notes that while women including Susan B. Anthony and Native American guide Sacagawea have appeared on coins, the only woman to have made it onto paper money is Martha Washington, who was on dollar silver certificates in the 1880s.
But who would go on the bills—and who would they replace? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin can probably rest easy, but Jillian Keenan at Slate made a good case earlier this year for booting Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill for his support of slavery and "ethnic cleansing" of Native Americans—and because he was "a fierce opponent of paper money and the central banking system." Vox suggests contenders including Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ida Wells. New York magazine has mocked up $20s with some of those choices, as well as ones featuring Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Martha Stewart, and Kim Kardashian.
Knowing Obama, he would nominate Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor.
Why not put Beyonce’s butt on a 500 dollar bill?
Becuz Moochelle’s won’t fit.
Perhaps Obama could put his own mother on one of our bills.
A photo where she IS NOT POSING NUDE would be preferrable.
Women don’t need to be ON the money, we SPEND the money.
She has my vote!
Put her on the 2 dollar bill. No one knows who is on it anyway, and it is kinda fitting as it is said most women are,..... well you figure it out.
I can’t wait to hear the nickname for the she-buck.
Seriously. Europe couldn’t agree on real landmarks on their currency, so all the Euro notes feature generic fictitious landmarks which will offend no country.
NO NO NO. Which great man will give up his bill for Sanger or the wise Latina.
Excuse me?
Some want to kick Jackson off the $20 bill?
Let’s all remember that Jackson was a good Democrat. But some liberals want to take issue with one of their own......
Bank of England and Scottish bank notes change the people on the notes. Besides the Queen, the Duke of Wellington, Newton, and Florence Nightingale have been on bank notes with Winston Churchill, Adam Smith and Jane Austen to appear in the near future. I remember one Scottish bank had a special edition with Jack Nicklaus on it. It does make the note more interesting to collect. US Banknotes are pretty boring. Before the notes became fixed the US had some nice banknotes with battleships, and another one with a big eagle. The opening up the possibility of changing the persons on the US bills is PC run amock. The blacks would demand MLK Jr, the Latinos Chazez, etc.
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because susan b Anthony and sakajeweea (sp?) worked so well....NOT!
Put Shelia Jackson Lee on.
(YIKES!)
Yeah....put his ‘momma’ on a $20 bill....while they’re at it, throw in Bill Clinton’s momma for the same.
Milk Money
I’ll bet she is mentioned nowhere in our public school system. Incredible lady. My bro in law flew for Delta (ex Navy pilot) and had her on his flight once.
Put the Mooch on the $3 dollar bill.
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