The 20 Dollar Bill Controversy

[TennesseeWaltz1]

Couple of years ago I was in Gatlinburg and bought some stuff in one of the shops there. I got a 20 in the change and on the bill someone had written, "This man was a racist who murdered innocent men, women and children". Remember it well. Wonder what is going to be written on the new Harriet Tubman bills...and for the record I think she needs to be honored...on a commerative coin only. She was an influential person but not a president.

 

[hawkeye54545]

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like Peter Gammons on the 20 dollar bill?

 

[Funky Bunch]

Don't the 10 and 100 have non presidents?

 

[Kinnick 4 Prez]

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like Peter Gammons on the 20 dollar bill?

Yes.

 

[naturalmwa]

What are the criticisms surrounding Harriet? I don't know much about her outside of the underground RR bit. Ohand I thought this thread could use a pic:

 

[Hawk in SEC Country]

Why the rush to remove Jefferson?

 

[TJ8869]

Don't the 10 and 100 have non presidents?

At least we don't have any British monarchs on our currency, like a certain brown-nosing North American country who shall remain nameless.

 

[TennesseeWaltz1]

What are the criticisms surrounding Harriet? I don't know much about her outside of the underground RR bit. Ohand I thought this thread could use a pic:

She needs to shave that 5 o'clock shadow I think...

 

[ottumwan in tx]

since there is no gold or silver backing it, mickey mouse could and should be on the darn bill and it wouldn't matter.... well, check that, maybe it would be suddenly be worth something to a mickey mouse collector!!

 

[PhantomFlyer]

since there is no gold or silver backing it, mickey mouse could and should be on the darn bill and it wouldn't matter.... well, check that, maybe it would be suddenly be worth something to a mickey mouse collector!!

Yes, but the Fed is backing it. Surely you have faith in the Fed, don't you.

 

[fredjr82]

 

[strummingram]

It's pretty arbitrary since paper has very little intrinsic value.

 

[Hawkeye009]

What is the intrinsic value of gold in today's world?

 

[strummingram]

What is the intrinsic value of gold in today's world?

Do you have any gold?

 

[hexumhawk]

Leave it alone.

 

[JWolf74]

It's pretty arbitrary since paper has very little intrinsic value.

Why does gold have any value? Why does it have more value than other precious metals, or paper, or the rocks in your yard? Because humans have decided that is what it's worth. It has no intrinsic value.

 

[Old_wrestling_fan]

Don't the 10 and 100 have non presidents?

I wouldn't know...I have never had a $100 bill of my own! You must be rich!

 

[86Hawkeye]

Why the rush to remove Jefferson?

This is my thought as well.

Do some of our bills periodically change in this way?

That said, I have no real issue with a US bill containing the image of a true American heroine.

 

[iCRUNCH]

 

[WORTHYWISH]

Abolish 1913

 

[Hawkeye009]

Do you have any gold?

Maybe you can explain why you think question has any relevance.

 

[strummingram]

My bad... The "intrinsic" was incorrect. It is a store of value. That is what I meant. Apologies.

 

[Arbitr8]

What are the criticisms surrounding Harriet? I don't know much about her outside of the underground RR bit. Ohand I thought this thread could use a pic:

Put a hat on them and it looks like the guy off the Cream of Wheat box.

 

[HallofFame]

 

[strummingram]

excellent work above!

 

[HallofFame]

 

[WORTHYWISH]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

 

[iCRUNCH]

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Do those 3 really belong together? While they all objected to powerful private banks, my sense is that Paul isn't making the same point that the other 2 were. I could be wrong - but if I am, I trust someone will explain.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

As for who's on the bills, I like the idea of rotating different American luminaries through them every few years.

 

[TennesseeWaltz1]

Appropriate...but a working person belongs on this since they are funding it.

 

[ClarindaA's]

Appropriate...but a working person belongs on this since they are funding it.

Kevin Hart is in a ton of movies....dude works all the time...

 

[naturalmwa]

Appropriate...but a working person belongs on this since they are funding it.

This is a good point, would Tubman be the only member of the labor class on our money?

 

[strummingram]

Paul

Do those 3 really belong together? While they all objected to powerful private banks, my sense is that Paul isn't making the same point that the other 2 were. I could be wrong - but if I am, I trust someone will explain.

Paul and Jefferson are pretty much the same. Jackson's quote is more malicious toward the entity itself. Jefferson and Paul are warning of the consequences of allowing a private central bank to create and regulate currency and credit. It's no longer in the control of the people at all. It hasn't been for well over a century now.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Paul


Paul and Jefferson are pretty much the same. Jackson's quote is more malicious toward the entity itself. Jefferson and Paul are warning of the consequences of allowing a private central bank to create and regulate currency and credit. It's no longer in the control of the people at all. It hasn't been for well over a century now.

I thought that was Jackson's beef, too. The difference, if there is one, seems to me to be a question of what you have - and, in particular, where the money comes from - once you get rid of the private bank or private cabal of banks that controls our currency and operates significantly outside of public control.

By the way, when you put it that way, the TPP is more of the same. Corporations empowered to operate outside of public control.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

gold has as much effective value as a dollar or a gun. actually probably less than a gun. Wtf am I gonna do with gold?

 

[TennesseeWaltz1]

This is a good point, would Tubman be the only member of the labor class on our money?

Touche natural...

 

[strummingram]

I thought that was Jackson's beef, too. The difference, if there is one, seems to me to be a question of what you have - and, in particular, where the money comes from - once you get rid of the private bank or private cabal of banks that controls our currency and operates significantly outside of public control.

By the way, when you put it that way, the TPP is more of the same. Corporations empowered to operate outside of public control.

TPP?

I wish people would write-out their words. The laziness of acronyms and abbreviations is so frustrating.

 

[WORTHYWISH]

Speaking of gold. Ever heard of Fenn's Treasure?
http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/trail-treasure-rocky-mountains

 

[torbee]

Why the rush?

By Year 10 of the Obama Oligarchy, his face will be on all our money anyway.

This is what I hear on a.m. radio, anyway.