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The Quest to Boot Old Hickory Off the $20 (As We All Know The Left Wing's Work Is Never Done)
The Atlantic ^ | April 17, 2015 | Adam Chandler

Posted on 04/18/2015 7:59:59 PM PDT by lbryce

This week, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire introduced the Women on the Twenty Act, legislation aimed at putting an American woman on the $20 bill. Shaheen's efforts nod to an initiative by Women on 20s, a group that is lobbying to change the $20 by 2020. That year Americans will mark the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. (The $20 is also overdue for a redesign to thwart counterfeiters.)

For Andrew Jackson, current face of the $20 bill, this is the latest assault on the paper perch he has occupied since 1928. Last June, my colleague Conor Friedersdorf argued that Martin Luther King, Jr., who is listed as the most-admired American of the 20th century, deserves the spot held by Jackson. He noted that while many young American children only have memory of life with a black president, "these same kids are still growing up in a country where the faces celebrated on the paper currency are all white." Friedersdorf continues:

I don't want to overstate the importance of that. There is a long list of suboptimal policies that are vastly more urgent to remedy. Still, the lack of diversity in this highly symbolic realm is objectionable, and improving matters would seem to be very easy.

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As We All Know The Left Wing's work Is Never done,if it involves the anathema that white males are to the rest of the humanity.

There's seems no end in sight to the machinations of the left wing's collective-convoluted pathological ravaged brain to stop at nothing in going as far as removing all members of humanity's inherent adversaries, white males, from remaining a viable niche in our midst, all of whom for the most part have been instrumental in the creation of the quality of life we all enjoy within civilization. Well, I suggest a .02 valued paper currency bill with the image of the man who devalued the $20 bill to its current value of .02


1 posted on 04/18/2015 7:59:59 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

We should put women on all the money. It would be more honest,,,


2 posted on 04/18/2015 8:00:48 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: lbryce

1. Lady Liberty or Columbia
2. Laura Ingalls, symbolizing the hard-working women pioneers who built America and believed in freedom.

I can’t think of any others that the left would choose that I wouldn’t refuse to touch.


3 posted on 04/18/2015 8:03:37 PM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: lbryce

So, let’s repeal the 19th and here no more of this.

And, it’s not impossible either.

We repealed the 18th and the country is better for it.


4 posted on 04/18/2015 8:04:52 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: lbryce

It’s a mistake, which makes it more valuable to collectors


5 posted on 04/18/2015 8:06:28 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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I’ll vote “aye” if they put Sarah Palin on the $20.

Hee hee hee...can’t you just see the feminists’ collective blood pressure spiking at that possibility?


6 posted on 04/18/2015 8:07:30 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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“The $20 is also overdue for a redesign to thwart counterfeiters.”

I don’t really understand why this is even a worry. The Treasury Dept estimates between 70 and 200 million in counterfeit currency is out there. That’s so trivial a congressfool can just earmark that much for a home project without review.
The government created unlimited amounts, Trillions,,, right out of thin air. And a dude printing out a few 20s on a color copier is going to bring down the system.

Please,,,


7 posted on 04/18/2015 8:09:13 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: lbryce


8 posted on 04/18/2015 8:11:20 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President Obola (LIPO) goes golfing)
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Boot Jackson and replace him with Renaldus Magnus.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

9 posted on 04/18/2015 8:11:30 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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The Obola bill would have to be a $3 bill.


10 posted on 04/18/2015 8:13:41 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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Hillary. Pelosi. Harf. Lewinsky. Wasserman-Schulz. Michelle. Boxer. Feinstein. BHusseinO. Babs Streissand. Boyance. Lady Gags or is it Lady Gaga. Gee, the D party has so many wonderful people of the female persuasion to choose from. . (I vote for Lewinsky She did the most honest job on the list )


11 posted on 04/18/2015 8:14:20 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Another brilliantl- intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly-stupid spell checker)
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12 posted on 04/18/2015 8:15:18 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President Obola (LIPO) goes golfing)
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MY vote is for Calamity Jane.


13 posted on 04/18/2015 8:20:16 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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A Three Dollar Bill would be appropriate...Queer as...


14 posted on 04/18/2015 8:24:21 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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The twenty dollar bill will become the most non-used currency.


15 posted on 04/18/2015 8:25:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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Frederick Douglass


16 posted on 04/18/2015 8:26:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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Achievement trumps “diversity”


17 posted on 04/18/2015 8:27:36 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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guess the suzi b dollar isn't enough
18 posted on 04/18/2015 8:47:36 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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Somewhat ironic.
The father of the Democratic Party.


19 posted on 04/18/2015 8:48:57 PM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: Chode
Or Sacagawea, or Helen Keller.......


20 posted on 04/18/2015 8:51:31 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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