Mother Jones on the $50, Reagan on the National Debt
by Meteor Blades
from DailyKos
Sun Mar 28, 2010
We learned at the beginning of this month that Rep. Patrick McHenry from North Carolina wants Ulysses S. Grant to step down off the $50 so Ronald Reagan can slip into the place the general has occupied for 96 years. Even people in McHenry's own state don't think that's such a good idea. Apparently, the majority of folks in that heavily unemployed segment of the Old Confederacy would rather have their Congressman working on stuff that matters.
From the minute Reagan escaped the porous Iran-contra prosecutorial net, I knew in my heart that while I yet lived an effort would be made to enshrine the guy on a piece of our currency. My gag reflex was subsequently triggered every time I imagined the visage of the Great Pitchman eternally smiling out at me from my cash. Bad enough I have to look at Andy Jackson every time I go to an ATM. Seriously, if we're going to change who appears on our money, how about we recognize some other kinds of people who made America great? Engrave Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Tubman, the Wright Brothers and Jackson Pollock on some of those denominations. Give Frederick Douglass, Tecumseh, or Mother Jones a century of prominence on the $50. Keep Ben Franklin where he is.
But if we just must have yet one more kowtow to the 40th President, let it be the Ronald Reagan Memorial Debt.
Republicans are the most tenacious deficit hawks. Except when they're in power. Which, as others have pointed out, makes them deficit peacocks, fitting companions for the party's innumerable chicken-hawks. All preen and squawk. Although Republicans are right now spending most of their time shrieking about how the first step in health insurance reform we just took will equal Pol Pot's reign of terror, they'll be back soon enough to point fingers about deficit-spending.
They could start with the fellow they've been gilding for the past 20 years.
(More here.)
from DailyKos
Sun Mar 28, 2010
We learned at the beginning of this month that Rep. Patrick McHenry from North Carolina wants Ulysses S. Grant to step down off the $50 so Ronald Reagan can slip into the place the general has occupied for 96 years. Even people in McHenry's own state don't think that's such a good idea. Apparently, the majority of folks in that heavily unemployed segment of the Old Confederacy would rather have their Congressman working on stuff that matters.
From the minute Reagan escaped the porous Iran-contra prosecutorial net, I knew in my heart that while I yet lived an effort would be made to enshrine the guy on a piece of our currency. My gag reflex was subsequently triggered every time I imagined the visage of the Great Pitchman eternally smiling out at me from my cash. Bad enough I have to look at Andy Jackson every time I go to an ATM. Seriously, if we're going to change who appears on our money, how about we recognize some other kinds of people who made America great? Engrave Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Tubman, the Wright Brothers and Jackson Pollock on some of those denominations. Give Frederick Douglass, Tecumseh, or Mother Jones a century of prominence on the $50. Keep Ben Franklin where he is.
But if we just must have yet one more kowtow to the 40th President, let it be the Ronald Reagan Memorial Debt.
Republicans are the most tenacious deficit hawks. Except when they're in power. Which, as others have pointed out, makes them deficit peacocks, fitting companions for the party's innumerable chicken-hawks. All preen and squawk. Although Republicans are right now spending most of their time shrieking about how the first step in health insurance reform we just took will equal Pol Pot's reign of terror, they'll be back soon enough to point fingers about deficit-spending.
They could start with the fellow they've been gilding for the past 20 years.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
So,.. if debt reduction is the key to getting your face on $, Vos Verax must be in favor of ole' Newt?
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