Posted on 12/11/2016 4:29:41 PM PST by Trump20162020
Harriet Tubman, the sword-wielding, gun-toting spy and freedom fighter who led dozens of slaves to freedom in the north after escaping from slavery herself is set to become the first black woman to be featured on American currency—specifically, the $20 bill.
According to a new report from TIME, however, the impending inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and the administrative changes that will come along with it have some within the Department of the Treasury concerned about the future of the new legal tender.
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“Really?? How about Founding Fathers....Patriots...”
I nominate Thomas Edison. We have him to thank for the phonograph, motion pictures and the light bulb, though leftists think the latter is destroying the planet, so I guess he would never get honored.
It replaced the Gowanus Canal.
will save money not having to make new plates.
Martin Luther King on American currency? That’s news to me!
I nominate Jon Voight or Ted Nugent, Two white Boys. If were going to be called Racists, we might as well play the part.
FUBO
This is a DDE:
What's a JFK?
If we’re going to be putting women on folding paper currency, the very first woman that should receive the honor is America’s first female NCO, Sargent Mary ‘Molly Pitcher’ Hays - who earned her rank the hard way, crewing a cannon at the Battle of Monmouth in combat against the British. While under heavy British fire she continuously brought water to the battery crews; when her husband fell at his cannon, she assumed his duties of swabbing and then loading the heavy projectiles in the cannon. She continued to serve her gun for the several remaining hours of the battle, while still under British musket and cannon fire; one cannon round literally passed between her legs and carried away part of her skirt at one point in the battle but she continued to fight.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Pitcher
Sorry. Mary Hays before Harriet Tubman.
It was over 100 degrees that day at Monmouth. It was more than the cannons that needed swabbing.
Not what I meant....The MLK statue in DC
Actually MIGHT be a way to educate some people and I think Trump would make sure it gets shouted out!
Yeah - and Hays kept fighting in the heavy multilayer clothing females were cursed with in that era even so.
too bad, so sad
Really. I don’t know if Harriett even took any beans.
Was so in. A battle?
Why can’t they have different people on the currency similar to the quarter?
Ah, the hyphenated name explains it all.
Absolutely.
I agree about getting rid of the dead presidents on coins. We can (and did) a lot better. The presidents on coins is too like having royalty on coins. We’re not that kind of country (or at least we didn’t used to be).
Presidents on currency have been around a lot longer, but there too, there were some glorious bills produced that didn’t feature politicians. The “Educational Series” shows what the Bureau of Printing & Engraving was capable of back in the day.
No, I don't. I don't want JFK on the 50 cent piece or Grant on the $50 either. Lincoln - I can make an exception to, being the Civil War and all, but he should be on a commemorative $2 coin, with Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the $1. But the rest of the currency should be strictly Founders only.
It states off with “could mean.” Then it goes to “has some concerned.”
In other words, lying hyping headline, and no substance in the article.
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