Norquist: Time is right to put ?Reagan on the $10 bill.'

[ChrisFromNJ]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/...reagan-on-the-10-bill/

In 1997, conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist initiated the Reagan Legacy Project, which sought to ?name something ? a stadium, a stretch of turnpike, anything ? after Reagan in every state in the union.? Another proposal favored by the group is to have ?Reagan?s image replace that of Alexander Hamilton, the nation?s first treasury secretary, on the $10 bill.? Speaking to the Washington Examiner yesterday, Norquist suggested that the time is right to push that project again. ?It sounds like a good time to re-start the conversation about getting Reagan on the $10 bill,? said Norquist. ?I don?t know why the Bush administration has dropped the ball on this.?

I thought Norquist was against unneeded government spending? Does he realize how much additional money it would cost to change the $10 dollar bill from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan? Aren't there more pressing issues than this?

In addition, it is absurd for a founding father like Alexander Hamilton to be replaced on the $10 dollar bill for a mediocre president like Reagan...

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: ChrisFromNJ
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/...reagan-on-the-10-bill/

In 1997, conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist initiated the Reagan Legacy Project, which sought to ?name something ? a stadium, a stretch of turnpike, anything ? after Reagan in every state in the union.? Another proposal favored by the group is to have ?Reagan?s image replace that of Alexander Hamilton, the nation?s first treasury secretary, on the $10 bill.? Speaking to the Washington Examiner yesterday, Norquist suggested that the time is right to push that project again. ?It sounds like a good time to re-start the conversation about getting Reagan on the $10 bill,? said Norquist. ?I don?t know why the Bush administration has dropped the ball on this.?

I thought Norquist was against unneeded government spending? Does he realize how much additional money it would cost to change the $10 dollar bill from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan? Aren't there more pressing issues than this?

In addition, it is absurd for a founding father like Alexander Hamilton to be replaced on the $10 dollar bill for a mediocre president like Reagan...

I wouldn't put him on a dime.

 

[Arkaign]

Alexander Hamilton was a serious douchebag, so I wouldn't have too much problem with this. I do think Kennedy and Eisenhower are both a MILLION times more appropriate for the next to grace a bill though.

 

[bamacre]

If the keep the inflation up, they may need to put him on the $100 million bill.

 

[Moonbeam]

Maybe he should go on a gold atom.

 

[ChrisFromNJ]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
Alexander Hamilton was a serious douchebag

And Ronald Reagan wasn't?

 

[ProfJohn]

I don't know about putting him on the 10, but of all the recent Presidents he is the only one worthy of such an honor.

Johnson = Vietnam
Nixon = Watergate
Ford = bleh
Carter = disaster
Reagan = good
Bush 41 = great man, eh as President
Clinton = person troubles over shadow everything else
Bush = traitor, war criminal, murderer :thumbsdown: :|

 

[ChrisFromNJ]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
I don't know about putting him on the 10, but of all the recent Presidents he is the only one worthy of such an honor.

Johnson = Vietnam
Nixon = Watergate
Ford = bleh
Carter = disaster
Reagan = good
Bush 41 = great man, eh as President
Clinton = person troubles over shadow everything else
Bush = traitor, war criminal, murderer :thumbsdown: :|

FDR deserves a spot on a coin or dollar before Reagan even gets a sniff..

 

[ProfJohn]

^ true, my response was aimed at the post JFK era, the last President to make it on to US currency.

 

[OrByte]

Reagan should be imprinted on urinal mints

 

[Kirby]

Taft in a bathtub should be on the $10.

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: ChrisFromNJ

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
I don't know about putting him on the 10, but of all the recent Presidents he is the only one worthy of such an honor.

Johnson = Vietnam
Nixon = Watergate
Ford = bleh
Carter = disaster
Reagan = good
Bush 41 = great man, eh as President
Clinton = person troubles over shadow everything else
Bush = traitor, war criminal, murderer :thumbsdown: :|

FDR deserves a spot on a coin or dollar before Reagan even gets a sniff..

FDR threw over 100,000 American citizens into internment camps.

 

[Lemon law]

With Zimbabwe 100 billion dollar bill in the news lately, even I must admit that Regan should rate a place on the Zimbabwe $10.00 bill. Its the least Mubabe should do to honor Reagan.

 

[ChrisFromNJ]

Originally posted by: JD50

Originally posted by: ChrisFromNJ

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
I don't know about putting him on the 10, but of all the recent Presidents he is the only one worthy of such an honor.

Johnson = Vietnam
Nixon = Watergate
Ford = bleh
Carter = disaster
Reagan = good
Bush 41 = great man, eh as President
Clinton = person troubles over shadow everything else
Bush = traitor, war criminal, murderer :thumbsdown: :|

FDR deserves a spot on a coin or dollar before Reagan even gets a sniff..

FDR threw over 100,000 American citizens into internment camps.

And Reagan armed and supported brutal right wing dictatorships in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
Alexander Hamilton was a serious douchebag, so I wouldn't have too much problem with this. I do think Kennedy and Eisenhower are both a MILLION times more appropriate for the next to grace a bill though.

I'd go for Eisenhower. Not Kennedy though.

I'd burn any bill with Reagan on it. Or more likely just exchange it for two $5 bills so I can avoid having a picture of Reagan on my person. His tough posturing that Bush took as gospel (despite Reagan never practicing it), as well as the start of one of the most disastrous economic policies in recent history are reason enough for me to not like Reagan. Oh, and he's partly responsible for some of our foreign problems as well.

Now all Presidents have their issues I suppose. But Reagan is too recent and controversial to get on any currency. Come back in 20 years and try again after history has either condemned or lauded the neocon.

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: ChrisFromNJ

Originally posted by: JD50

Originally posted by: ChrisFromNJ

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
I don't know about putting him on the 10, but of all the recent Presidents he is the only one worthy of such an honor.

Johnson = Vietnam
Nixon = Watergate
Ford = bleh
Carter = disaster
Reagan = good
Bush 41 = great man, eh as President
Clinton = person troubles over shadow everything else
Bush = traitor, war criminal, murderer :thumbsdown: :|

FDR deserves a spot on a coin or dollar before Reagan even gets a sniff..

FDR threw over 100,000 American citizens into internment camps.

And Reagan armed and supported brutal right wing dictatorships in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Thats great. I'm not advocating that Reagan should be put on a piece of currency.

BTW - I'm more concerned with the rights of American citizens than I am with some backwater third world countries.

 

[nageov3t]

Bill Clinton should go on $1 bills so we think of him in the strip club.

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: loki8481
Bill Clinton should go on $1 bills so we think of him in the strip club.

I'm ok with that...:thumbsup:

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: loki8481
Bill Clinton should go on $1 bills so we think of him in the strip club.

:laugh: I laughed so hard it woke my fiancee.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: ChrisFromNJ

And Reagan armed and supported brutal right wing dictatorships in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

He was also a drug dealer, unless you think that he was already a pleasant but senile figurehead by the time of Iran-Contra.

Drug dealer or senile puppet? Neither sounds like a good candidate for the $10 bill.

 

[TechAZ]

Originally posted by: loki8481
Bill Clinton should go on $1 bills so we think of him in the strip club.

:thumbsup:

lol, nice one

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: loki8481
Bill Clinton should go on $1 bills so we think of him in the strip club.

Can we put Reagan on the $3 bill then?

 

[trenchfoot]

If anything, Reagen's mappy face belongs on the white colored money in the Monopoly Board Game. It just has to be where he got all of his inspiration for promoting a healthy economy.

 

[StageLeft]

The time is now. Reagan AKA the second coming of Christ, should be revered and we should pay homage to all that was right about him, especially during these dire times. If his likeness was on a $10, it would immediately scare about people who look down on the US dollar and rollback all its losses in no time flat!

 

[Red Dawn]

He'd be perfect for the wooden nickel:thumbsup: