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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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
Is the Sharpton three dollar bill far behind?
Leave the higher denominations for Founders (Madison, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, and Hamilton).
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?
It will be Liberace soon.
American is moving into a post racial society? Or one where it's all race all the time?
Tubman? are we turning our money into a Trivial Pursuit game?
“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!”
2030? God willing; I’ll be dead before then...
Well, I was trying to be snarky ....
Oh, and here I thought you were being facetious!.............
“The result of BLM.”
Obviously, an activist is more important than a president of the US. What was I thinking?!
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.
And a proponent of sterilization eugenics.
Are you flying or just daydreaming?.................
I’m surprised zer0 didn’t pick WEB Debois or Frank Marshall Davis or Malcolm X.
I will be flying. Was just studying my flight plans for next week.
Democrat icon Andrew Jackson
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.
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