Most Americans (79%)Don't Want Reagan On $50 Bill

[kpete]

Most Americans Don't Want Reagan On $50 Bill
By Marc Perton on May 1, 2010 2:31 PM 0 views

Fans of Ronald Reagan have gotten airports and highways named after the 40th president, but a proposal to put the Gipper on the $50 bill in place of Ulysses S. Grant is about as popular as putting Bonzo on the hundred.

The proposal, by Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry, is opposed by 79% of Americans, including 71% of Republicans, according to a Marist Poll. Not only that, but it turns out that there are some very vocal Grant fans out there, and they're not about to let Reagan take over from the Civil War hero. According to the Washington Post:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/04/most_oppose_changes_to_50_bill.html
http://consumerist.com/2010/05/most-americans-dont-want-reagan-on-50-bill.html

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. This is one time when it's good to be in the majority.

:smoke:

[monmouth]

2. Thought I read where Mrs. Reagan wasn't for this either..n/t

[YOY]

3. It would have happened 3 years ago.

Too late bitches. Reaganism? You're soaking in it!

[librechik]

4. Not unless he's wearing a cowboy hat and carrying Bonzo

to show our dear peace loving serious country the right respect.

[Fire1]

5. Fuck McHenry. n/t

[NikRik]

6. First Regan Airport now this !!

First of all I do not care how many people think he was a great President,if they look at his record they will see he was the start of what is our current situation economy wise. They should take the airport and rename it after President Clinton ,at least he gave us hope for the future,for eight years and then it was all erased by one of Regans group of idiots his VP's and his VP's son ! Near the end of his second term he was practicially senial ,his wife had to whisper in his ear to explain what the meaning of what was being discussed and he still did not get it. Regan era was actually the Regan nightmare for our country for the world and most importantly for our childrens future !!
IMHO NickR

[lonestarnot]

7. I will never use one of those! If someone tries to give me one, I will insist on different bills.

[AnArmyVeteran]

24. Remember, you can cut out the picture & the bill is still negotiable...

So you can cut out his face or mutilate it with clever drawings and the bill will still be honored. Or you can get one of those rubber ink imprints and use it to stamp any message on his face you want. The stampers are less than ten bucks, and some are close to five bucks. I used one prior to the 2004 election stamping anti-Bush messages on hundreds of bills. It's a good way to make a political statement. Since conservatives believe money is free speech, I just combined the two and 'spoke' right on the money itself.

You can find rubber stamps that allow up to four lines of information between 5 and 10 bucks on the internet. And it will last for thousands and thousands of dollars (if you have that much money)! When I cashed my checks I used to ask for cash all in one dollar bills so I could stamp as many as I could. My money protests didn't change the election, but I'm sure I blew up the brains of a lot of right wingers who had to accept the bills in change. The bills end up going through hundreds of thousands of hands so it's cheap advertising.

Disclaimer: It might be a tad against federal law, but how are they going to find you.

[Toucano]

43. More than a tad, it's a clear violation.

United States Code
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY
§ 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill,
draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking
association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System,
with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence
of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than six months, or both.


I suppose you could argue that you didn't "intend" to render it unfit for reissue, but why take the chance?

While prosecution might be rare, refusal to accept the bill might not be.

[Echo In Light]

8. K/R

[HopeHoops]

9. I wouldn't accept it - even from a bank.

[wilt the stilt]

10. Belongs on the three dollar bill

as authentic as trickle down economics.

[Union Yes]

11. MLK instead... Ray-Gun destroyed our currency. He(RR) isn't worthy of any 'honor'.

MLK is worthy.

MLK is the most deserving IMO.

[CommonSensePLZ]

37. +1

[L0oniX]

12. Some congress persons have nothing better to do.

[Angry Dragon]

13. Monopoly money

[hunter]

14. Maybe we could put Ronald Reagan on a paper penny note...

... and sell advertising on the back.

[Enthusiast]

15. Reagan should be removed

to utter obscurity.

[Festivito]

16. How about the $75,000,000.00 bill -- to pay for oil spills.

That is the limit, we might as well make easy for them to pay their share while we spend billions on their corporate welfare.

[AnArmyVeteran]

17. What part of Reagan's anatomy would be on the bill?

I might support such a measure if it pictured his ass instead of his face. It would be representative of what kind of person he truly was.

[Froward69]

18. put Him on the penny!

Lincoln stays on the $5.

As Pennies were what actually "trickled down" to us during Reagan economics.

and it will quell all this hero worship bullshit.

[devilgrrl]

31. +1

:thumbsup:

[Toucano]

42. +2 Appropriate

Don't pennies cost more to produce than they are worth?

That would make Reagan on the penny just about perfect.

[joeybee12]

19. It amazes me that I agree with the majority of Americans on something.

:silly:

[Rex]

20. How anyone can worship a doddering old fool is beyond me.

Reagan was only slightly better than George and Dickie.

[tonysam]

21. His picture belongs only on an I.O.U. n/t

[greencharlie]

22. Grant won and ended the Civil War...

much more historically significant. I can't think of ANY post 19th Century American to put on currency.

[Heywood J]

30. How much of that is because we're so much more aware

of the flaws of Presidents and other bill-candidates now than we are of those in the 18th-19th centuries?

[awoke_in_2003]

23. Grant needs to stay...

and we need a new denomination to put Sherman on- just to rile up southerners :)

[Rex]

25. NO thanks, it would probably catch on fire when I'm not looking.

[awoke_in_2003]

27. thanks...

now I have to clean my monitor :spray:

[greencharlie]

26. lol... nt

[MajorChode]

33. It should rile up anyone who is opposed to the principles of total warfare.

[awoke_in_2003]

38. his main target

was warehouses, manufacturing, and railroad. This decimated the south's ability to resupply. He torched house to break the spirit. Very little was done to harm civilians, and those who targetted civilians were punished harshly. The march to the sea destroyed property, and not 10's of thousands of lives that even one battle in the civil war could bring. I feel little sympathy that plantations of slaveowners were burned to the ground.

[MajorChode]

39. Sherman himself didn't even believe that

Sherman burned almost everything in his path. If you think only "plantations of slaveowners" were burned, you are woefully ignorant of the historical facts. Sherman gave his men nearly complete autonomy to do practically anything they wanted and only curtailed their activities when they got completely out of hand near the end of his march. Sherman himself ordered the killing of civilians at random after being attacked by Confederate guerrilla forces. He routinely burned entire communities and towns if he suspected they were supporting Confederate militia forces or guerrillas. I don't agree with some who think Sherman intentionally burned large cities, but he most certainly did destroy vast amounts of food stores, crops, and livestock. I don't think you understand what happened in the 1860's to women, children, and the elderly when their winter stores were destroyed and their homes were burned. There was no social safety net. When you ran out of food, you starved. If you didn't have shelter, you died of exposure. It's that simple. Sherman knew all too well the consequences of such actions. It would have been more humane to kill them outright. Instead many died a slow death of starvation. Nobody knows for sure how many civilians died as a result of the war, but most agree the number was very high and may have been as much as twice the number of military deaths.

[RedCloud]

28. Just wait for it to trickle down to him.

[Qutzupalotl]

29. It would be more appropriate to put Reagan on the dime...

as long as it's on someone else's dime!

bada-boom

[jxnmsdemguy65]

32. Ronald Reagan was a turd...

and Nancy was the blowjob queen of Hollywood.

http://purplepinupguru.blogspot.com/2005/04/reagans-darker-side-reagans-mob.html

[RagAss]

34. Reagan on the $50? I'm all for it. ....And here is the picture they should use....

[HughMoran]

35. Good

Fuck that moron who ruined this country.

[donheld]

36. He can be on the $666 dollar bill

[fujiyama]

40. Grant is an underrated president

and while he wasn't the greatest (still better than Reagan by most regards), he gets a bad rap for a lot things that really weren't his fault. His reputation has been improving in recent years, it seems.

Reagan is likewise one of the single most overrated presidents in US history and it's very clear that many of his policies are directly related to the economic mess.

[Toucano]

41. Put this on the 50!

It is time we honor someone without a Y chromosome.

[Radical Activist]

44. The day Reagan is on the $50 is the day I start using money to wipe my ass.

Grant was one of our greatest Presidents and Reagan was a terrorist-supporting corporate stooge who hurried global warming with his shitty energy policies.

Grant is only unpopular as a President because Southern historians and conservatives didn't like him beating down the KKK terrorists and holding real democratic elections that included black people. He's one of the most progressive Presidents in American history on a number of issues and the corruption scandals are overblown.