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Kick Andrew Jackson Off the $20 Bill!
Slate ^ | March 3, 2014 | Jillian Keenan

Posted on 03/05/2014 4:40:55 AM PST by C19fan

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To: cripplecreek
Jackson wouldn't be among my favorites but leave him on the bill.

Being half-Cherokee, he has always been a villain in my eyes, but I agree, he was a significant figure in American history and should stay on the bill.

21 posted on 03/05/2014 5:04:50 AM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: svcw

Hey Slate, who cares, we in Dixie have to live with Grant on the $50.


22 posted on 03/05/2014 5:05:33 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: C19fan

Harriet Tubman?

Hell, I nominate Mumia.


23 posted on 03/05/2014 5:06:16 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: C19fan

Slate focusing on the big issues of the day.

If anyone needs to be removed from the money, it’s Grant. What did he do? Yes, he was a Civil War general, but he’s at or near the top of most expert’s Worst U.S. President lists.

Still, it’s such a minor thing.


24 posted on 03/05/2014 5:06:35 AM PST by PaulCruz2016
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To: C19fan

Marxist “multi-culturalism” blowing in the wind.


25 posted on 03/05/2014 5:08:00 AM PST by Misterioso
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To: fruser1

I wonder whether we would have had a civil war if Jackson (or someone just like him) had been president instead of Lincoln during those years.

There was a secession movement during Jackson’s presidency and he basically told the hotheads in South Carolina to shut up and sit down - and they did.


26 posted on 03/05/2014 5:10:49 AM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: OftheOhio

I don’t know a lot about Santa Anna, but I do know that in those days, when a battle was over either by outright victory or surrender, it wasn’t the habit of the victor to summarily execute officers.

Officers surviving a defeated battle always had the chance to come back another day.


27 posted on 03/05/2014 5:12:23 AM PST by fruser1
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To: OldPossum

Agree about his significance. I live in Jackson county Michigan in a town named after Michigan’s first senator next to a town named after a French dictator (Napoleon).

He was a true democrat. His political payoffs and gamesmanship showed where the party was headed. He gave the much more valuable Toledo strip to Ohio if they could deliver the vote for the Democrats in the next election. Michigan got that “worthless” upper peninsula with.


28 posted on 03/05/2014 5:13:29 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: catfish1957

I agree he was no saint. I don’t relish in any brutality or injustice. My point is basically is, in the period of history, his actions did not appear so severe as they do from the vantage of OUR point in history.


29 posted on 03/05/2014 5:14:36 AM PST by fruser1
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To: C19fan

There can be no doubt that this ‘nation’ is no nation at all. We have huge irreconcilable differences that are becoming more evident everyday.


30 posted on 03/05/2014 5:15:08 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Progov
as our nations first (and hopefully last) black president?

Last, Really! Allen West, Tim Scott, E.W. Jackson, (Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia). Any of these men would do not only a better job than Obozo, but an outstanding job. And you can bet West would not allow the cuts to the military that Hagel is implementing.

31 posted on 03/05/2014 5:16:24 AM PST by verga
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To: Jim Noble

lwet’s get real... ceasar chavez will replace him evenmtually


32 posted on 03/05/2014 5:18:06 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: OftheOhio

That was Sam Houston, not Andrew Jackson. At the time, Texas was still a Republic and not part of the United States.


33 posted on 03/05/2014 5:18:14 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: fruser1
would’ve been a TEA party candidate were he alive today

The libtards know this and in their minds that is reason enough.

34 posted on 03/05/2014 5:18:23 AM PST by verga
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To: SeeSharp

He was also the victorious general at the Battle of New Orleans, one of the very few American victories over Britain during that war and key to holding the entire Mississippi valley without dispute (OK, it happened several weeks after a peace treaty had been signed ... details, details). As an icon of the Democratic Party, and being of Cherokee ancestry myself, I have no great love or admiration for Jackson. In many ways he was a genuine bas***d and tyrant. But the fact is he was an important and pivotal figure in our history, the first common-man to ever gain the presidency.


35 posted on 03/05/2014 5:18:39 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Meet the New Boss
He’d kick Obama’s ass all day long up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.

I recall reading that someone took a shot at him with a pistol when he was President. He chased the man down and tried to beat him with a cane. I don't recall if he actually caught the man or not.

36 posted on 03/05/2014 5:20:49 AM PST by verga
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To: C19fan

While Jackson was indeed repugnant because of his ethnic cleansing, far worse was his refusal to recharter the Second Bank of the United States, and his “specie circular”, that plunged America into its worst depression until the Great Depression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837

Throughout his term, he could have mitigated much of this disaster, but instead he waited until just before leaving office to pull the rug out from under the US economy.

Importantly, this just destroyed his successor, a man he hated, his own vice president Martin Van Buren, also a Democrat, because he was pro-business and had wealthy friends, whom Jackson bitterly hated and wanted to destroy.

The Andrew Jackson depression lasted seven years.

And true to form, in his efforts to hurt and harm the wealthy, most of the people who were ruined were the middle class and poor.

It has been said that Mark Twain’s character Pap Finn, father of Huckleberry Finn, was pretty much a typical Jacksonian Democrat: he had never had $50 in his pocket, and hated anyone who ever had, because he was convinced that he had to have made that $50 by ‘keeping him (Finn) down’, so he wanted the government to take that $50 away.


37 posted on 03/05/2014 5:21:13 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: C19fan

We should return to the ‘old’ standard...Lady Liberty and the like. Such beauty and art in those days.

Of course, then it would make it difficult to know the difference between REAL $$ and fiat currency


38 posted on 03/05/2014 5:22:23 AM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: verga

He actually had two attempted assassinations, which is what would also happen today if someone had the balls to take on the rat’s nest of crooks that compose the triumvirate of the federal reserve, the US Treasury, and the Wall Street elite.


39 posted on 03/05/2014 5:23:40 AM PST by AK_47_7.62x39 (There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam. -- Geert Wilders)
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To: C19fan

He had a $20 bill for lunch? What neighborhood was he raised in?


40 posted on 03/05/2014 5:35:09 AM PST by Raycpa
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