[Axenolith]

"In God We Trust" has been on the money since 1866, the comment always bandied about that it's "only been the national motto since 1956" is phraseology used by people who want to get rid of it because, to them, it insinuates it hasn't been around very long and thus isn't culturally insinuated into the national psyche as much as us pro-motto people would like to believe... Personally though, I think we should ditch the politicians that currently decorate money and go back to representations of liberty, she's hotter anyway :-)

[oblomov]

>>Personally though, I think we should ditch the politicians that currently decorate money and go back to
>>representations of liberty, she's hotter anyway :-)


I agree, and I would add that we should ditch the politicians that currently make laws and go back to representations of liberty. Also because she's hotter.

[Jason_b]

The most important aspect of the coin, the picture of which that you posted, is not that it has a motto, but that the substance from which it is made is gold. A Double Eagle is $20 of wealth. Gold bullion in that form is real money, also known as primary money. In the U.S. today all we do is play games with debt. A $20 bill is a $20 credit, someone else's liability.

defeat the coin act of 2006

[Dan Evans]

I was surprised to see that Lady Liberty pre-dated the statue by twenty years. But it turns out that she goes back much further than that. The French had statues of her around the time of the revolution and even the Romans had a goddess named Liberty.