Reagan to replace FDR on dime?? *POLL INCLUDED*

[Vic]

Originally posted by: TooOne21
So I am the idiot of which you speak of? Nice forum we got here... Kids.... resort to name calling.

I'll bet I'm older than you are, friend. It's just that if you can't remember or don't know why we have a law that makes it so only dead people can go on money, but then advocate changing that law to put a living president on money for purely facetious political reasons, then yeah... I'm gonna call you what you are.

Hint: the only living people on money in the rest of the world are royalty

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
I want Bill Clinton on my dimes.

Never. Perhaps on a box of condoms but not coinage.

 

[Red Dawn]

They should give Reagan a Stamp in his honor..without any glue on the back

 

[BeauJangles]

Reagan may have been a decent president, at best, but what has he done that even places him in the same league as men like Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and FDR?

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
They should give Reagan a Stamp in his honor..without any glue on the back

Why? Because they forgot to put it on?

It's ironic enough that they named an airport after him...

 

[TooOne21]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: TooOne21
So I am the idiot of which you speak of? Nice forum we got here... Kids.... resort to name calling.

I'll bet I'm older than you are, friend. It's just that if you can't remember or don't know why we have a law that makes it so only dead people can go on money, but then advocate changing that law to put a living president on money for purely facetious political reasons, then yeah... I'm gonna call you what you are.

Hint: the only living people on money in the rest of the world are royalty

Kids resort to name calling....
You must be a liberal, and a little naive to not recognize it was a joke to begin with.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: TooOne21
Kids resort to name calling....
You must be a liberal, and a little naive to not recognize it was a joke to begin with.

Heh... you're a funny one

Calling me a kid AND a liberal AND a little naive... yet I'm the one doing the name calling?

And I very much realize it was a joke. I didn't find it funny. The only living people who have their faces on money are royalty and dictators.

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: Fausto
Hmmm.....replace the man who brought the country out of the great depression with man who increased our national debt by one order of magnitude. Sounds like a fscking great idea.

for once I agree with you entirely (and I also agree with your sarcasm too)

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: dtyn
The ignorance of some people amazes me. Do some reading of some unbiased historical texts about Reagan, and then form your opinion. Read: He did not plummet the US deeper into debt. I'm not starting a debate, as this is not P&N.

So can someone recommend an unbiased text on reagan? A decent biography, say? I'd be interested to read one.

 

[DaveSimmons]

James K. Polk!

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
James K. Polk!

Our eleventh president...Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump...

In 4 short years he met his every goal...he seized the whole southwest from Mexico...made sure the tarriffs fell, and made the english sell...the oregon territory...he built an independent treasury...having done all this he sought no second term!

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: dpm

Originally posted by: dtyn
The ignorance of some people amazes me. Do some reading of some unbiased historical texts about Reagan, and then form your opinion. Read: He did not plummet the US deeper into debt. I'm not starting a debate, as this is not P&N.

So can someone recommend an unbiased text on reagan? A decent biography, say? I'd be interested to read one.

Why not watch the Showtime version, you know that will be the gospel

 

[Sid59]

create the 99 cent coin and put regan on it. then no one will ever use it.

 

[prontospyder]

Originally posted by: Citrix
Leave the dime alone, come up with a new coin and put Regans mug on it.

 

[Mathcop]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
I want Bill Clinton on my dimes.

Dime bags maybe .... that's about all he's fit for. :disgust:

I voted to leave FDR on the dime just because of the connection between him and the March of Dimes. Can't think of any connection between a president / currency that is as appropriate. I remember filling those cards with dimes when I was in elementary school and turning them in. It seemed like fun. I think it was 30 dimes on a card. Anyone else remember those? Do they still do that?

BTW, I am a HUGE Regan fan. I think Ronaldus Maximus has been the greatest president of my lifetime and I would definitely support him being on currency. As someone said, how about the penny or the $5 .... why does Lincoln have two?

 

[Thegonagle]

Let's at least wait until he passes from this life.

They act desperate to put Reagan on everything, like they're grasping at every little straw. Hold on a little while. You'll get your Reagan memorabilia soon enough.

("The Mississippi river is now known as the Mississippi Reagan." <-- That's one of my favorite Simpsons quotes.)

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Jeez! How quickly we forget what our greatest presidents have done! First of all, why not wait until Reagan has passed on before we immortalize him on a coin? And second, why take FDR off the dime? He got our country through the Great Depression. Reagan was a great president, but I personally feel that a new coin should be minted if we're going to put him on one...don't take some other president's face off of one!

It wasn't FDR that got the U.S. out of the Depression, it was that little thing called WWII.

 

[BigJelly]

As one who believes that reagan was one of the greatest presidents of america and believe that FDR's plan was to turn America into a socialist society, i have to say NO. Dont change this, it's stupid.
Maybe the treasury should have put reagans face on the $1 coins.
Call me prejudice but i refused to get those because they put sakawea on it. They put her on it because she helped Lewis and Clark. Then why not put on Lewis and Clark for fuc#s sake. Why? Because its PC gone mad again, forcing politicans to try to make up for wrongs that THEY never commited.

FDR deserves to be on the dime, whats next replace a face on mt rushmore for reagan? We cannot forget our past and reagan will not beforgotten because he wasnt on the dime.

 

[PunDogg]

Reagan was the sux, is the sux, and always will be the sux

 

[BigJelly]

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: dtyn

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu
More importantly Reagan is too controversial to put on the dime .... half the people love, half the people hate him. You need a president who is (at least presently) either universally loved, and historical enough so that they are remembered in 50 years. I personally think that William Henry Harrison should be on the 85cent coin.

Because he did sooooo much during the 1 month he was president, right?

At least he didn't speend billions of dollars or pointless wars or anything else recent presidents have been doing.

Did the Nazis attack the US first? No
Did Sadam attack the Us first? No
Why were the nazis bad? genocide, starts wars, used bio-chem weapons, tried to develop nukes, hated jews, oppresed his people, made a secret police force
Why is sadam bad? genocide, starts wars, used bio-chem weapons, tried to develop nukes, hated jews, oppresed his people, made a secret police force

So what you are saying is that the US was unjustified in taking down nazi germany? Cause sadam seems to share all the traits of the nazis (except for being european).

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: BigJelly
Did the Nazis attack the US first? No
Did Sadam attack the Us first? No
Why were the nazis bad? genocide, starts wars, used bio-chem weapons, tried to develop nukes, hated jews, oppresed his people, made a secret police force
Why is sadam bad? genocide, starts wars, used bio-chem weapons, tried to develop nukes, hated jews, oppresed his people, made a secret police force

So what you are saying is that the US was unjustified in taking down nazi germany? Cause sadam seems to share all the traits of the nazis (except for being european).

Please don't be purposefully obtuse. While the Nazi's may not have attacked the US first, they did attack our Allies with whom we had a joint-aggression pact. As the Nazis attacked those allies first (knowing that those countries were our allies), that meant that, both legally and in spirit, the Nazis did attack the US first.

And while I agree that Saddam was "bad", I strongly disagree with comparisions between him and Hitler. Hilter was far worse than Saddam could ever dream to be by several orders of magnitude. In fact, I find such comparisons insulting and ignorant. The US stood a very real chance of losing WWII. More than 100 million people around the globe died because of Hitler's war. And Hitler built his death machine in less than 6 years. Saddam is/was a petty insignificant tyrant in comparison -- in more than 30 years ruling Iraq, he never amassed enough to be even remotely a threat.

This is not to say that I oppose our actions in Iraq. It is to say, shut up, your lack of historical knowledge and respect combined with idiotic jingoism makes conservatives look stupid.

 

[LAUST]

Ummm did he die and noone told me?

I though you had to be a dead pres to get on mulah?

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: BigJelly

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: dtyn

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu
More importantly Reagan is too controversial to put on the dime .... half the people love, half the people hate him. You need a president who is (at least presently) either universally loved, and historical enough so that they are remembered in 50 years. I personally think that William Henry Harrison should be on the 85cent coin.

Because he did sooooo much during the 1 month he was president, right?

At least he didn't speend billions of dollars or pointless wars or anything else recent presidents have been doing.

Did the Nazis attack the US first? No
Did Sadam attack the Us first? No
Why were the nazis bad? genocide, starts wars, used bio-chem weapons, tried to develop nukes, hated jews, oppresed his people, made a secret police force
Why is sadam bad? genocide, starts wars, used bio-chem weapons, tried to develop nukes, hated jews, oppresed his people, made a secret police force

So what you are saying is that the US was unjustified in taking down nazi germany? Cause sadam seems to share all the traits of the nazis (except for being european).

If you recall the nazis declared war on us not the other way around. It was right after there allies attacked a little island.

 

[OutHouse]

Feldenak, Interesteing map in your sig. what is its source?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Citrix
Feldenak, Interesteing map in your sig. what is its source?

I love that map. You see those 4 huge counties in southeastern Oregon (Klamath, Lake, Harney, and Malheur to be exact) that combined have more land area than half the states east of the Mississippi?

Well, combined they also have less population than my suburban Portland neighborhood.

edit: I'm willing to bet many of you east-coasters have never seen isolation like this. You want your definition of BFE redefined? The county seat of Lake county, ironically called Lakeview, has a population of 3,000 and is the largest town for 100 miles (or a 2 hour 2-lane blacktop drive) in ANY direction.