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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill? You crazy?" . . . Please come CAPTION Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin!!!
Steve Mnuchin is saying: "Listen, the fact is that simply putting a woman's picture on money will undermine confidence in our currency. . . . I mean, who will trust it? . . . Will it only be accurate or have value, say, 25 days a month? . . . Then imagine putting a black woman's image on a bill, . . . Well, you might just as well flush it down the toilet. . . . Besides, have you taken a close look at Tubman's face? . . . Geez."
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Above CAPTION base on this spud's exchange with Ayanna Pressley during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee. DU has a sweet clip:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017542285
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"Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill? You crazy?" . . . Please come CAPTION Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin!!! (Original Post)
skip fox
May 2019
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)1. When did John Oliver become treasury sec?
(John himself has noted the resemblance ).
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)2. I happen to be enough of a traditionalist
that putting any new faces on our bills seem strange and wrong. But I also think that our currency is quite boring and that we should redesign it every so often.
3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)4. I believe it was Dutch paper money that was described as the most beautiful in the world.
That was before the Euro.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)3. Here's the image that Mnuchin says will take years to create:
Watch the clip in the OP link. Definitely "soft racism" or, rather. chickenshit racism.
underpants
(182,830 posts)5. Ooh touch anything less than a $100?
skip fox
(19,359 posts)6. S.M. continues:
"And if you put Harriet Tubman on the twenty only black people will want twenties and maybe only black women . . . because they're the only ones who can identify with a black woman, . . . whereas everyone can identify with a white man."
myohmy2
(3,163 posts)7. "..shit
...read my lips, Grand Imperial Wizard...President Trump wants loyal Republican David Duke on the twenty."
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