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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Sun May 26, 2019, 08:15 AM May 2019

"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 OP
When did John Oliver become treasury sec? Dennis Donovan May 2019 #1
I happen to be enough of a traditionalist PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #2
I believe it was Dutch paper money that was described as the most beautiful in the world. 3Hotdogs May 2019 #4
Here's the image that Mnuchin says will take years to create: skip fox May 2019 #3
Ooh touch anything less than a $100? underpants May 2019 #5
S.M. continues: skip fox May 2019 #6
"..shit myohmy2 May 2019 #7

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)
2. I happen to be enough of a traditionalist
Sun May 26, 2019, 08:49 AM
May 2019

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.
Sun May 26, 2019, 09:03 AM
May 2019

That was before the Euro.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
3. Here's the image that Mnuchin says will take years to create:
Sun May 26, 2019, 08:53 AM
May 2019


Watch the clip in the OP link. Definitely "soft racism" or, rather. chickenshit racism.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
6. S.M. continues:
Sun May 26, 2019, 11:05 AM
May 2019

"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
Sun May 26, 2019, 11:28 AM
May 2019

...read my lips, Grand Imperial Wizard...President Trump wants loyal Republican David Duke on the twenty."

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