Everyone hates Jackson so put a woman on the $20 and keep Hamilton on the $10

NY Daily News ^ | Tuesday, August 25, 2015

[MinorityRepublican]

As an Op-Ed in this section notes, Wednesday is Women’s Equality Day, marking 95 years since the long-disenfranchised majority won the right to vote. It also could and should have been a day to celebrate the future placement of a prominent woman on the $20 bill, displacing the notoriously slaveholding, Indian-killing Andrew Jackson.

It was not to be — because U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew chose instead to boot the great Alexander Hamilton from the $10, before backtracking into a cockamamie plan to have a woman and Hamilton share that bill.

As the country has awakened to the foolishness of sidelining Hamilton — the most important New Yorker, the founder of modern American capitalism, an abolitionist to boot — Lew has pressed a lame persuasion campaign through invitation-only, closed-door meetings.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Everyone hates Jackson?

[Smokin' Joe]

Look what happened when they took Ike off the cartwheel and put SB Anthony on that quarter sized mess...

[ETL]

[SaveFerris]

Their actual worth is getting closer, fer sure.

[DoughtyOne]

I like that also.

[BipolarBob]

He didn’t treat the Native Americans fairly.

[Smokin' Joe]

LOL! Those are great! People wouldn’t even pick them up off the sidewalk, they’d leave them to scare the rodents and cockroaches away!

[jetson]

I don’t hate Jackson.

[kathsua]

This all started with a effort to get Reagan’s picture on money.

[cabojoe]

How about Caitlyn Jenner on a three dollar bill?

[Nifster]

SInce when does everyone hate Jackson?????

[a fool in paradise]

Put Ronald Reagan on the $20.

Next question?

[a fool in paradise]

$20 bills with wimens’ pictures on them only have 72% of the purchasing power as those with mens’ pictures on them.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I don’t hate Jackson. But I’ve become as reticent and skeptical of him as with Teddy.

[MeshugeMikey]

An excellent Idea,..and therefore most certainly doomed to failure....

word is that Hillary is still leaning towards Huma

[a fool in paradise]

>>I really like the images of Indians on currency.

There’s one today and it doesn’t make news.

https://catalog.usmint.gov/native-american-2015-one-dollar-coin-25-coin-roll-NT1.html

[scottiemom]

Thanks for the participation, just the same, my friend!

[captain_dave]

In the 1800s the coins usually had lady liberty on them

[AnotherUnixGeek]

As an Op-Ed in this section notes, Wednesday is Women’s Equality Day, marking 95 years since the long-disenfranchised majority won the right to vote. It also could and should have been a day to celebrate the future placement of a prominent woman on the $20 bill, displacing the notoriously slaveholding, Indian-killing Andrew Jackson.

While I don't agree with many of Andrew Jackson's policies, he was one of the greatest American presidents. Revisionist history by Leftists should not remove this flawed but great man from his place on the $20. Nor should Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founders and one of the authors of The Federalist, lose his recognition to some woman simply to please the forces of PC.

[grey_whiskers]

OK, Sarah Palin.