Posted on 04/21/2016 8:31:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Turning the the paper certificates visually into TOILET paper.
Personally, I find speciesism offensive. Why have only humans on our paper money? I personally favor reptiles. We could be saying “It’s all about the Musk Turtles” if we were more open-minded.
National Joke Review.
Mad Magazine would be a better read than this.
The country we live in now is most certainly not the country created by the great men of our history. It is today something else altogether. Might as well have “truth in advertising” on the swiftly-becoming-valueless currency issued by the despotic oligarchy that rules us today.
That is the ultimate irony.
So our communist muslim president removes the founder of the democrat party from the $20, and replaces him with a Christian, gun rights supporting Republican.
Can't get any better.
Agree the $20 dollar bill just became a collectors item.
Don’t worry. I am too busy weeping for the destruction of the country.
Jackson would just consider the source & move on to more
important matters. He lived in a different time. - I don’t
quarrel with Harriet Tubman being honored. I didn’t know her. She also lived in a different time. - This is all PR
for Hitler-y & her choice of “female” VP. - Gag me with a
spoon! :o(
What? I don't know how he can justify this end conclusion. Both George Washington and Abe Lincoln were just as, if not more, controversial (and hated by many) in their own time.
“Tubmans life is not without its own controversies, like her assistance to John Brown in advance of the Harpers Ferry raid that ended with Brown being hanged for treason (the justification of Browns actions is one of the great ethical dilemmas in American history: How far exactly should one go to stop something as bad as slavery?).”
“How far exactly should one go...?”
“ethical dilemmas”??
That is a new one for me.
John Brown’s goal was to capture arms and provoke a slave insurrection/race war.
And this fool seems unperturbed by it.
The GOPe is again practicing preemptive surrender through their mouthpiece NRO. How bad do they hate America?
This decision is going to survive until November and then it will quietly die.
I’m Choctaw, so I have nothing but disdain for Jackson because of how he “repaid” Choctaw loyalty and assistance to him during his times of need. HOWEVER!!! he is a hugely important President and was the first “man of the people” not from the elite East or Virginia.
Taking Jackson off the $20 because today it is PC and makes some people feel good, warm and fuzzy is totally and completely ridiculous. Tubman’s current legends far exceed her actual deeds. Not taking anything away from what she actually did, but she would be shocked to see how she is portrayed today. Some of the stories about her compare to George Washington and ‘the cherry tree’ or ‘throwing a dollar across the Delaware’ (or was it the Potomac?).
I swear, the world is being turned upside down by people with “good? intentions.”
That’s just my opinion.
Oldplayer
I didn’t see this in the article.
A black, a woman, an acknowledgement of the fight to end slavery, all accomplished with one choice. That works.
This new $20 isn't going to be issued until 2030. There probably won't be paper money by then.
Keeping it real, I'm more concerned about what's happening that will destroy the economic future of the US. If those wise folks in DC could turn that around, I wouldn't care if they put Bugs Bunny on the dollar bill!
I would rather this gem
Only since 1928...
Yes, just mere days ago...
Good grief where do they find these hack writers?
I object to the change, because it’s not the only one.
Pretty soon we’ll have money that insults us every time we use it.
And of course that’s the plan anyway.
They want to do away with domestic cash. They’re hoping we’ll sign on board as soon as our case insults us every time we use it.
You’ll see Reagan on the Polish Zloty, before you’d see him on a US bill.
The Emancipation Executive Order's purpose was the same.
I believe the War of 1812 was already over when they fought the Battle of New Orleans; they just hadn't got the word yet that it was over.
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