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Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson
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Posted on 04/20/2016 12:41:47 PM PDT by MNDude

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday will announce plans to both keep Alexander Hamilton on the front of the $10 bill and to knock Andrew Jackson off the front of the $20 in favor of Harriet Tubman, sources tell POLITICO. Lew is expected to roll out a set of changes that also include putting leaders of the women’s suffrage movement on the back of the $10 bill, and incorporating civil rights era leaders and other important moments in American history into the $5 bill. Also, Jackson isn’t getting completely booted off the $20 bill. He’s likely to remain on the back. Story Continued Below

Lew's reversal comes after he announced last summer that he was considering replacing Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman. The plan drew swift rebukes from fans of Hamilton, who helped create the Treasury Department and the modern American financial system. Critics immediately suggested Lew take Jackson off the $20 bill given the former president's role in moving Native Americans off their land.

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To: SkyDancer

According to the government’s CPI calculator, which goes back to only 1913, $100 in 1913 is worth $2,405.37 of today’s money. So, going back past the War Between the States, I’m sure it was mush higher than even that.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=1913&year2=2016


61 posted on 04/20/2016 1:52:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: MNDude

Is the Sharpton three dollar bill far behind?


62 posted on 04/20/2016 1:53:18 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: MNDude
Let the $1, $2, and $5 display the portraits of downtrodden noteworthy minorities, and rotate them periodically to placate all the whiners.

Leave the higher denominations for Founders (Madison, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, and Hamilton).

63 posted on 04/20/2016 2:11:09 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: MNDude
Harriet Tubman, while great, is obviously not appropriate for being on money. That is for founders of the republic.

And somebody please send Jack Lew to a sanatorium so we can all move on with our lives. What ridiculousness! Can this country go one day without being a freak?

64 posted on 04/20/2016 2:15:26 PM PDT by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vaquero

It will be Liberace soon.


65 posted on 04/20/2016 2:17:27 PM PDT by kiltie65
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/hamilton-lin-manuel-miranda-10-bill-jacob-lew-1201732115/


66 posted on 04/20/2016 2:20:28 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: MNDude
This is so stupid it burns.

American is moving into a post racial society? Or one where it's all race all the time?

67 posted on 04/20/2016 2:24:08 PM PDT by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: MNDude

Tubman? are we turning our money into a Trivial Pursuit game?


68 posted on 04/20/2016 2:24:30 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: MNDude

“I need a helicopter on the rooftop in one hour and one million dollars in unmarked, non-sequential Tubbys, or people are going to start getting hurt!”


69 posted on 04/20/2016 2:27:00 PM PDT by Rastus (The next president will be Trump or Hillary. Vote accordingly.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

2030? God willing; I’ll be dead before then...


70 posted on 04/20/2016 2:27:53 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Red Badger

Well, I was trying to be snarky ....


71 posted on 04/20/2016 2:29:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

Oh, and here I thought you were being facetious!.............


72 posted on 04/20/2016 2:32:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: SandRat

“The result of BLM.”

Obviously, an activist is more important than a president of the US. What was I thinking?!


73 posted on 04/20/2016 2:32:49 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe I was, dunno. My mind is at 40,000 feet heading to Chicago right now. And if it wasn’t for Chicago, Dubuque Iowa would have been south of Omaha. Not sure.


74 posted on 04/20/2016 2:50:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SpaceBar

And a proponent of sterilization eugenics.


75 posted on 04/20/2016 2:51:41 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: SkyDancer

Are you flying or just daydreaming?.................


76 posted on 04/20/2016 2:52:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: grobdriver

I’m surprised zer0 didn’t pick WEB Debois or Frank Marshall Davis or Malcolm X.


77 posted on 04/20/2016 2:55:07 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Red Badger

I will be flying. Was just studying my flight plans for next week.


78 posted on 04/20/2016 3:07:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: MNDude

Democrat icon Andrew Jackson


79 posted on 04/20/2016 3:27:16 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Talisker

Tubman is minor historical figure even in the suffrage movement. There were many many other people involved with the Underground Railroad.

Most of the leading suffragists were white , to be honest.


80 posted on 04/20/2016 3:44:35 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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