Posted on 03/04/2010 9:53:45 PM PST by PizzaDriver
BTW: What people call “currency” today isn’t “currency.” It’s fiat paper money.
There is real currency only when there is REAL MONEY on deposit somewhere, for which the currency can be exchanged.
If anything I would like to see Madison and Jefferson seen more prominently on our currency. Jefferson is on the rarely used $2 bill and Madison was on the now defunct $5000 bill.
You want Sherman on the fifty?
I’ve read some of what Hamilton wrote. He was not “progressive” in the sense of today. One memorable passage I read was where he talked about the PEOPLE being able to check/retard/reign in a federal government that took too much power.
Even for all he federalist doctrine, he realized a central government COULD go too far.
What would you also do, rid ourselves of any mention of John Adams? He too was a federalist. Made some mistakes, yes, but a good man who helped usher in our founding documents.
C’mon.
Send those offensive bills to me. I can assure you that you will never be forced to gaze upon them again.
/bingo!
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LOL!
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I say put Obama’s picture on the One Quadrillion Dollar Bill. With him in office, we will be in need of such a note soon.
If you don’t like looking at Hamilton then take them out of your wallet and send them to me. I don’t particularly care whose face is on our currency, I only look at the corners.....and the higher the number the better.
Hamilton was a typical politician, and on that score you left out two of his biggest accomplishments:
His notorious affair with Maria Reynolds,
and his stupid dual with Aaron Burr.
Not much different from today’s politicians.
Hank
dual with Aaron Burr
That was common in those days.
You can’t take sociology 2010 and 1700 and get an equal.
An afair, not good but we also don’t know all the
circumstances.
Where in the heck to you get that tid-bit of misinformation?
Yes, I know. It was sort of tongue-in-cheek, though I don’t have much use for politicians in any age.
As for the affair, there is evidence he might have made it up, to cover up something else more nefarious. Of course that’s not so good either.
Hank
Hamilton, Sherman, Ames, Wolcott, Morris and the Federalists were the good guys. The Jacobins, those who looked to the French Revolution for inspiration, those who wished to inflate the money supply were in Jefferson’s faction.
Yes, I know about the other situations and side stepping.
There are many people in history that have a background
Some things are out right intolerable or given that time in history it is a given.
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