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2004-06-08 Home Front: Politix
Reagan the new face of the $10 bill?
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Posted by GP 2004-06-08 10:08|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I like the idea of putting Reagan on half of the dimes. I think Nancy Reagan was embarassed that they were going to remove FDR entirely, but putting him on half of the dimes would be a nice compromise, and I think that the Reagan family might go along with that . Changing the paper money doesn't work for me personally, but it may just be me. Since Rohrabacher wants him on the $20, and he is my congerssman, I am going to EMial him with the 1/2-1/2 dime alternative.
Posted by BigEd 2004-06-08 10:49:55 AM||   2004-06-08 10:49:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Why not a new silver coin containing real silver (just like the ones we had when Reagan was a boy)? Probably have to make it a $5 or $10 coin to have any real size to it. A new $1 or $2 coin with Reagan on it might have better public acceptance than the last two PC attempts at a new dollar coin {Susan B. Anthony and "Golden" (Sacagawea) dollar}
Posted by RWV 2004-06-08 1:21:16 PM||   2004-06-08 1:21:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Susan B Anthony Dollar, aka the Scowl Dollar.

Ladies : Do you want money with an angry looking person, male or female? Suzy-Bees were doomed from the start. Another legacy from Jimmy Crack-Peanuts.

Sacajawea was a different matter. a phony "gold" $1 coin was never going to be accepted unless you removed all the paper dollars. I personally had no problem with the Sacajaweas. She at least had a pleasant expression. The coin wasn't ugly, but it was just odd with the gold color. Perhaps the difference between Bubba Clinton and Jimmy Crack-Peanuts, is expressed in the design of the two coins. Ugly vs wierd.
Posted by BigEd 2004-06-08 1:29:04 PM||   2004-06-08 1:29:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ummagod. What if they start asking for Clinton's face on a coin! There is no way in hell I am going to let that man in my pants! You can take that to the bank.
Posted by Zpaz  2004-06-08 1:45:25 PM||   2004-06-08 1:45:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 A $1 coin with Reegan's likeness on it would be an idea. We really, really need to get away from $1 bills. (I got spoiled in Australia by $1 and $2 coins...hehe)
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-08 2:30:03 PM||   2004-06-08 2:30:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 A $6 bill would be perfect. Everytime I go to Subway, it's $5.89 or something. And while we're at it, can we do away with pennies? Would it really hurt? We've been rounding to the hundreths digit for way too long now. It's time for tenths (or twentieths).
Posted by BigMutha 2004-06-08 3:13:40 PM||   2004-06-08 3:13:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 dollar coins wuld be a problem at titty bar.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-06-08 3:51:16 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-06-08 3:51:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 That's our mucky! Always the pragmatist.

I think most women prefer bills to dollar coins. Most women don't carry their money in their pocket (though I do); they carry it in a billfold, which really isn't designed to hold $7 or $8 in $1 coins, plus the other coins one normally carries.

If they're going to make a new $1 coin, make it the SIZE of a $1 coin, not the size of a quarter. We used to have $1 coins (Vegas may still use them in slots, I'm not sure) and people actually used them, but they were larger than quarters so it was easy to tell the difference.

The other thing to consider in getting rid of $1 bills is the cost of converting all those vending machines that take dollar bills & give change (most of the time, anyway).
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-06-08 5:13:03 PM||   2004-06-08 5:13:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Put him on the $20. Andrew Jackson has got to be the worst human being we have on any of our currency. Get someone with actual talent to redesign while you're at it - the current bill is simply hideous.
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-06-08 6:28:35 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-06-08 6:28:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Get rid of that commie Jeffeson. Put Reagan on the 5 cent piece. Jefferson still got the nutty horserace piece of tender.

Reagan on the obverse broken hammer and sickle on the reverse.
Posted by Shipman 2004-06-08 6:51:08 PM||   2004-06-08 6:51:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Andrew Jackson was what? Suh, I call you out. I demand satisfaction. Swords or pistols? I know he was a great American because Johhny Horton told me so:

Well in 1814 we took a little trip.
Along with Col. Jackson down the mighty Mississip'.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
and we beat the bloody British at a town called New Orleans.

(Pardon my French Shep, Bulldog.)
Posted by Zpaz  2004-06-08 7:11:27 PM||   2004-06-08 7:11:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 jackson was jackass who is kill alot of native american. he not worthy even being on food stamp.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-06-08 7:40:24 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-06-08 7:40:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Just what in the HELL is a native American? There is no such thing!!!
Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-06-08 8:06:47 PM||   2004-06-08 8:06:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 dollar coins wuld be a problem at titty bar.

Don't be cheap then, and use a five. If you have to use a dollar coin, drop it into their bra cup. After all, it is a titty bar, right?
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-08 8:09:47 PM||   2004-06-08 8:09:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 b-a-r im not know what kind titty bar you are go to but if they wearing bra cup you just got jypt.

ok pete if it making you feel beter lets say indian. :)
Posted by muck4doo 2004-06-08 8:14:15 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-06-08 8:14:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 If every U.S. president were alive today and could run simultaneously for the office again, I would vote for Jackson before all others. No one, but no one would defend this country more vigorously and when needs be savagely. Everything I ever needed to know about Andrew Jackson's character can be summed up by the fact that while a teenage prisoner of war during the revolution, he once was savagely beaten because he refused to clean the shoes of an enemy officer. He carried the scars his entire life. His nuts and attitude are fully in keeping with the traditions of the Rantburg.
Posted by Zpaz  2004-06-08 8:57:50 PM||   2004-06-08 8:57:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Just what in the HELL is a native American? There is no such thing!!!

It's what those people are called whose ancestors' knowledge of America preceded the 15th century by a couple millenia, I believe.

Less ambiguous than "Indian" and more accurate than "redskin". But if you've a better suggestion, feel free to share. :-)
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2004-06-08 9:05:51 PM||   2004-06-08 9:05:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Zpaz -
Amen. If ol' Andy were President for 9/11, we'd have taken out the Taliban by way of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Of course, we probably would have taken a completely gratuitous shot at "perfidious Albion" just for old times sake, but, hey, nobody's perfect.
Posted by Darth VAda 2004-06-08 9:13:17 PM||   2004-06-08 9:13:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 President Reagan belongs on a U.S. coin or bill Americans shall use on a daily basis.

Not some odd ball coin or $10.000 bill.
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-08 9:19:48 PM||   2004-06-08 9:19:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 England gave us our language and political beliefs. Europe gave us its people. George Washington held us together and gave us our political start. Jefferson and Madison gave us our political voice. But all those things do not a nation make. It ultimately is the barrel of a gun that establishes sovereignty. If you can not defend yourself, you are not a nation - you are a doormat with pretensions. Andrew Jackson led us in the Battle of New Orleans. That battle put every country of the world on notice, especially the country that mattered most, perfidious albion, that we were a nation that could defeat the world superpower on our turf - that, unlike the ambiguous Revolutionary War victory, we did not need France or any European power for survival. After New Orleans, we were at last a sovereign nation that, until the advent of nuclear weapons, could not be destroyed from without, only from within.
Posted by Zpaz  2004-06-08 10:11:20 PM||   2004-06-08 10:11:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 #17 assis katshit, do you even know what the word "native" means? Methinks not. There are books available to most people, called DICTIONARIES. Look it up.....here, I'll make it easy for you. Here's how you spell it: N A T I V E. In case you have a problem with the alphabet.... N comes right after M, and right before O. That should narrow your search somewhat. Study hard.....quiz tomorrow.
Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-06-08 10:15:50 PM||   2004-06-08 10:15:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 
Just what in the HELL is a native American? There is no such thing
Well, Pete, I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, so that would make me a native American. I think there are a few more around the country. I also know people who immigrated here - they would be naturalized Americans.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-06-09 12:06:32 AM||   2004-06-09 12:06:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 Andrew Jackson had no more respect for the Constitution than I do for the roll of toilet paper I just finished using. His policy towards the Civilized Tribes was nothing more than ethnic cleansing. He was central in the push of the slave aristocracy, and the abominable, ecologically disastrous economy it fostered, into the old Spanish lands in Florida and the old Southwest. He managed to start a major economic depression as a part of his personal vendetta with the president of the US Bank. He was a murderer, a genocide, a slaver, and a demagogue. It's a testament to the strength of the Republic that it survived him intact.
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-06-09 7:55:31 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-06-09 7:55:31 AM|| Front Page Top

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