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bigsky
03-03-2015, 07:55 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/03/this-group-wants-to-banish-andrew-jackson-from-the-20-and-replace-him-with-a-woman/?tid=sm_fb

Thinking Kate Upton

jazyd
03-03-2015, 08:10 PM
I vote stay where we are

Darrell KSR
03-03-2015, 11:06 PM
Don't understand the need to change, but I don't care if you give me enough of them, they can have minnie Pearl, Hillary Clinton, and bea Arthur on it.

CitizenBBN
03-03-2015, 11:51 PM
Jackson is controversial?

I'm as pro-woman on issues as about any guy, but due to past social norms and discrimination I can't really think of a woman who has risen to the level of being on the primary currency.

Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, Grant, Franklin? In sheer impact it's just not there for any of the women at this point. It may happen, but not there yet.

Jackson and Grant were both Presidents and major war heroes and they are the lowest guys on the totem pole for the main currency. We're talking about people who were so important that all of history is changed if not for them. Rosa Parks is a key event, but civil rights was an inevitability. I'd be much more willing to consider MLK b/c he did singularly impact HOW the movement happened, in a largely non-violent way.

that's compared to Washington, without whom I doubt the revolution succeeds and certainly democracy was in trouble, LIncoln who guided the nation through its darkest days, Franklin who was the most singularly visionary person in American history, Madison who framed the Constitutional process, Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of independence and was the President who made the Louisiana Purchase, etc.

I hope we get one who is at that level someday, but we don't have one yet.

If they want to take Jackson off the $20, you need to go back in time and pick John Adams, but IMO you could drop Alexander Hamilton first, he's probably the least singularly important person on a major bill.

suncat05
03-04-2015, 09:23 AM
Now this is just me, but the only woman on that list that I would consider being worthy of consideration would be Clara Barton. That's it, of all those women on the list.

Eleanor Roosevelt? Not no way, not no how. What does she bring to the party? Oh, she was the wife of a President? Is that it? Yeah, pretty much.

Darrell KSR
03-04-2015, 09:37 AM
Now this is just me, but the only woman on that list that I would consider being worthy of consideration would be Clara Barton. That's it, of all those women on the list.

Eleanor Roosevelt? Not no way, not no how. What does she bring to the party? Oh, she was the wife of a President? Is that it? Yeah, pretty much.

I'd go Clara Barton or Rosa Parks, with Parks being symbolic of a greater movement only, and not for what small part she really played in it.

I really wish somebody would send me a few thousand of each type for comparison purposes.

suncat05
03-04-2015, 09:58 AM
Rosa Parks certainly deserves recognition for her societal contribution, but not sure her small part in the desegregation movement rises to the same level as Clara Barton's endeavors on the battlefields of the Civil War trying to save the lives of troops from both sides, along with founding an organization that now has gone world-wide in its efforts to help all people everywhere when disasters strike.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the Red Cross. They notified my unit & my Company Commander of my Dad's passing while I was pulling a security detail in the Sinai Peninsula. So, were it not for Ms. Barton's efforts way back then, the way I was notified may not have been made possible. JMHO.

cattails
03-04-2015, 02:18 PM
I'm going with Bruce Jenner :4chsmu1:

Doc
03-04-2015, 03:37 PM
Heidi Fliess. She has made good use of a few 20's over the years

BigBluePappy
03-04-2015, 06:14 PM
I can always count on cattails and Doc for a smile...

cattails
03-18-2015, 11:32 PM
I can always count on cattails and Doc for a smile...


:4chsmu1:

Crazy4Blue
04-21-2015, 05:00 PM
What about Little Debbie? Everyone likes her.

CitizenBBN
04-21-2015, 06:15 PM
If we're going that way I vote for Shirley Temple.

If we want to get the currency stronger abroad I recommend Scarlett Johansson.

blueboss
04-21-2015, 09:04 PM
Every since they put Barbara Bush on the $1.00 bill women have been lobbying hard to get another bill with a woman's picture on it.

kingcat
04-21-2015, 10:40 PM
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1571094/images/o-DOLLY-PARTON-facebook.jpg

SALUTE!

Darrell KSR
04-22-2015, 11:21 AM
Dolly would have to be the $44 bill, wouldn't she?

blueboss
04-22-2015, 05:20 PM
Big money!!!


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blueboss
04-22-2015, 11:39 PM
4656

Another girl to "blow" your money on


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Doc
04-23-2015, 08:09 AM
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/014/766/clinton.jpg


Lets hope NOT. Imagine a 20 dollar bill with a pants suit and crankles.

kingcat
04-23-2015, 04:48 PM
The wife and daughter say this lady..
http://himetop.wdfiles.com/local--files/florence-nightingale/Nightingale.jpg

blueboss
04-23-2015, 08:38 PM
Monica on the front Hillary on the back...yikes!!

Doc
04-24-2015, 07:43 AM
4656

Another girl to "blow" your money on


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She would be on a new denomination. The $69.00 bill?

KeithKSR
04-24-2015, 08:27 PM
Dolly would have to be the $44 bill, wouldn't she?

Mint code would go from D to quadruple D?

KeithKSR
04-24-2015, 08:28 PM
She would be on a new denomination. The $69.00 bill?

Inflation makes the actual value $.69