Time for Women on US Paper Money? Obama says it's a 'pretty good idea'

Newser ^ | 07/31/2014 | Rob Quinn

[Responsibility2nd]

(Newser) – The days of American paper money being an all-boys club could be numbered. President Obama said yesterday that he had received a letter from a young girl wondering why there were no women on US bills, "and then she gave me a long list of possible women to put on our dollar bills and quarters and stuff, which I thought was a pretty good idea," reports the Hill, which notes that while women including Susan B. Anthony and Native American guide Sacagawea have appeared on coins, the only woman to have made it onto paper money is Martha Washington, who was on dollar silver certificates in the 1880s.

But who would go on the bills—and who would they replace? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin can probably rest easy, but Jillian Keenan at Slate made a good case earlier this year for booting Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill for his support of slavery and "ethnic cleansing" of Native Americans—and because he was "a fierce opponent of paper money and the central banking system." Vox suggests contenders including Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ida Wells. New York magazine has mocked up $20s with some of those choices, as well as ones featuring Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Martha Stewart, and Kim Kardashian.

[hummingbird]

Cher.

Miley Cyrus posed tweaking or on a Wrecking Ball.

I'm glad B. Hussein O. has time for "stuff"and reading little girl's letters.

Guess it beats reading anything...presidential.

[CrazyIvan]

You could also change Federal to Feral.

[hummingbird]

"Put Moochelle on the $3 bill. A transgendered wookie of color, married to the first gay pResident - that’s got to score a lot of affirmative action points."

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Jackpot!

[Popman]

Bella Absug....with her trademark hat....I think that’s her name....

That would be one ugly bill....

[Adder]

I vote for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

[hummingbird]

Or Aunt Esther from that old Redd Foxx series.

I loved Aunt Esther!

[rface]

a woman truley worthy of being on Paper Money....even if it is only paper...

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Nancy Hart

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Here is a woman known to have a hot temper, fearless spirit and no hesitation to deliver revenge if she felt herself or any member of her family had been harmed.

The most well-known account of Nancy’s life begins when six British soldiers stopped at her cabin in search of a Whig leader, demanding information if he had stopped at her farm. Although the man they were tracking had been there, she denied seeing anyone.

Convinced that she was lying, one of the Tories shot and killed Hart’s prized gobbler, ordering her to cook the bird. Entering the cabin, they stacked their weapons in a corner and demanded something to drink. Hart obliged them by serving up wine. As the soldiers drank the wine, Hart sent her daughter to the spring for a bucket of water. She secretly instructed her daughter to blow a conch shell, kept in a nearby stump, to alert the neighbors that Tories were in the cabin.

As Hart served her unwelcome visitors and passed between them and their weapons, she began to pass the muskets through an opening in the cabin wall to her daughter, who had slipped outside to the rear of the house. When the soldiers noticed what was going on, they rushed to try and retrieve what weapons were left. She gave them one warning that she would shoot the next man that moved. Ignoring her warning, one man made the deadly mistake of approaching her. She held the rest off until her husband, Benjamin, and others arrived.

Benjamin Hart wanted to shoot the remaining hostages, but she insisted on hanging them.

In 1912 workmen grading a railroad near the site of the old Hart cabin unearthed a neat row of six skeletons that lay under nearly three feet of earth and were estimated to have been buried for at least a century.

[familyop]

Yeah, it worked so well with the abominable Susan B. Anthony dollars.

[hummingbird]

*snicker*

[mikrofon]

LOL, true… Or change “United” to “Un-Red” States, the Treasury seal to the Obama logo, etc, etc. ;)

[al baby]

why not advertising like a nascar car and its the NAPA 20 dollor bill

[hummingbird]

Oh you beat me to it, "heathen"!

Its perfect!

I think I'll print some up.

Maybe send them to DNC and RNC!

[Fresh Wind]

The Obamas belong on the first series of Federal Deserve Notes.

[hummingbird]

*Huge Snicker*

[Vigilanteman]

Good one! Though I had to look twice to get the joke.

[cripplecreek]

Hate to do it to LaWanda Page who appears to have been a really kind woman.

[Responsibility2nd]

THAT is a great story. Thanks for posting.

[hummingbird]

"Hate to do it to LaWanda Page who appears to have been a really kind woman."

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You are doing it for Aunt Esther!

LaWanda Page was the perfect choice for Aunt Esther! Very talented and memorable!

[Vermont Lt]

Good God. Is this guy reading the Carter playbook—looking to 9 year old girls for advice on how to run the world. Is there nothing more important going on?

[JamesP81]

If a woman is to be on paper money, I vote for Adm. Grace Hopper. She was a patriot, and she contributed much to modern society. And unlike Eleanore Roosevelt or Michelle Obama, Hopper did it all on her own.

Agreed. I have no problem with the idea of women on money, I have a problem with the women the administration would want to put on money.