Posted on 06/17/2015 5:55:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew is set to announce on Thursday that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten dollar bill, in favor of a woman.
The change could happen as soon as 2020.
The announcement came via Nancy Lindborg, president of the US Institute of Peace, who tweeted out the news....
...The choice to replace Hamilton on the $10 bill as opposed to President Jackson on the $20 bill is a curious one.
There were clear reasons to replace Jackson on the bill. Jackson has long been reputed as a deeply flawed character, who owned hundreds of slaves, executed American soldiers for desertion, and, most heinously, oversaw the relocation of native American tribes from lands promised in previous treaties.
The "Trail of Tears," as it has become known, resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 Cherokee alone. Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Seminole, and other tribes were also forcibly removed.
The reasoning behind the removal of Hamilton is less clear.
As a founding father of the United States and the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton is hardly the controversial figure that Jackson was. In addition, Hamilton is the architect of the early American financial system, having established a national bank, a system of tariffs, friendly trade relations with Britain, and assumed states' debts to solidify the nascent union.
The debate over who should replace Hamilton is far from settled. Lindborg invited people to sound off on Twitter with the hashtag #TheNewTen.
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Helen Thomas, of course.
Leave it alone, dammit.
Rachel Dolezal
A twofer—black and a woman.
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Talk about revisionist history. Does NBC own Business Insider?
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Dear President Cruz, here's another way to save the taxpayers some money.
Why ?
Kate Upton
Based on this, “Jackson has long been reputed as a deeply flawed.”, we can be equally sure that Obama will never be on a legit American bill.
Lincoln’s probably next because he was a Republican.
Rachel Dolezal in porn mode.
Lincoln’s probably next because he was a Republican.
Money makes people do ugly things.Might as well make the money ugly too.
What I want to see on the $10 spot is these words that used to be on them.
“Pay To The Bearer On Demand TEN DOLLARS in Gold or Silver.”
Hamilton was a banker. Fringe lunatic liberals hate them.
This is disgusting. I may not like Hamilton at all, but he was a Founder of our country. I do not see why he should be removed.
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“The announcement came via Nancy Lindborg, president of the US Institute of Peace, who tweeted out the news.... “
Which means it’s going to be a female face on the bill.
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