Will Grant Surrender $50 Bill To Reagan?

[arcadian]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124286440

March 3, 2010
A U.S. congressman from North Carolina wants the $50 bill redrawn to feature the face of former President Ronald Reagan.

Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry wants Congress to tell the U.S. Treasury to replace former President Ulysses S. Grant on the bill. McHenry announced his bill Tuesday. He has 13 Republican co-sponsors.

Grant was a Union general during the Civil War who led the North to victory and later became the nation's 18th president.

McHenry said Reagan transformed the nation's political and economic thinking and argued that "every generation needs its own heroes."

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[Demoiselle]

1. I think I'm going to be sick.

[trusty elf]

54. me too!

How would you feel about having this coin in circulation?

[Demoiselle]

59. Well, you know what they say...

"Another day, another dullard.."
Har har. I am going to be sick.

[formercia]

2. "every generation needs its own heroes."

and Ronnie isn't one of them.

[Auggie]

3. Al Franken once said Reagan should be on all the money...

since his administration ran up great deficits.

Franken said children could then refer to Reagan as "The Money President."

I thought that was great.

[arcadian]

6. If they put him on the 50

I'd cross him out with a big X, every 50 dollar bill I had. That would be fun. Because of Reagan I don't have that many.

[wizstars]

15. Or tear it about halfway thru......

....then they have to take it out of circulation.

[Auggie]

18. I like it

We could also black-out his teeth. Cross his eyes. Add devil horns. Think of the fun.

[NoSheep]

46. Oooh, nice!

[BuelahWitch]

29. I'll refuse to take fifties.

I'll make whoever is handing them out break them into 2 twenties and a ten.

[roamer65]

38. Delete.

[elehhhhna]

4. A General trumps a movie-making weenie actor. Where's their patriotism?

[elehhhhna]

5. Who cares? We already call ALL paper money "Bill's".

Take that, Freepers!

[Captain Hilts]

7. Yeah. Someone from North Carolina might not like Grant on the $50. Suck on it and like it. You lost.

[El Supremo]

11. Besides the fact that Grant sacrificed his own troops more than any other American general...

he also ran one of the most corrupt administrations of any president.

[baldguy]

27. The Grant Admin was the most corrupt ever - until Reagan came along.

And W topped them both. Maybe we should be putting Junior on the $50.

[Captain Hilts]

30. Details, details!!!

[Chisox08]

47. Grant was a better President than Reagan

Grant's war of attrition is what won the Civil War. Other Union Generals didn't attack when they had the South on the ropes. Grant and Sherman was the two Generals that was responsible for breaking the South's will to fight and winning the war.

[demosincebirth]

34. I like Grant. Maybe drank a lil' too much, who cares. He got the job done.

[mmonk]

53. Put your brush back in your pocket.

[Kalyke]

60. You know, Captain, we Southerners don't think about the Civil War

nearly as much as you think we think about the Civil War.

I've lived in the South nearly all my life and I never have conversations about the Civil War with any neighbor, casual acquaintance or co-worker. Believe it or not, we Southerners talk about the same thing y'all Yanks do: movies, the economy, jobs, health care, pollution, the weather, etc. The only time the Civil War comes up is if someone - usually a "not Southerner" - brings it up to see our reaction - which is usually not much of one.

[Arkana]

8. If General Grant were here, he'd go down to where Raygun is buried

and smack his corpse up a little.

[LiberalFighter]

20. Grant and Raygun should be forced to return and fight each other.

I bet Grant would win easily.

[El Supremo]

9. They are both assholes to me.

Teddy Roosevelt isn't on any bill or coin. Why not him, even though he invented American Imperialism?

[Zomby Woof]

10. McKinley was more responsible than TR for that

[El Supremo]

14. Maybe, but McKinley is already on the $500.

You could ditch him as far as I'm concerned.

[Zomby Woof]

43. Doesn't matter now

The $500 hasn't been printed in decades. It just sits in vaults in Federal Reserve Banks here and there. Been out of circulation for many, many years.

[BR_Parkway]

12. Well, they both waged war on other Americans - but Reagan's is still ongoing

so maybe they should wait to see if he wins - in which case, most of us will never see another $50 bill

[Caliman73]

52. Yeah but Grant did it on orders to preserve the Union....

Regan did it on behalf of the richest people against the middle, working class, and poor for the benefit of the powerful. I am not a fan of Grant, but I think about it this way. If Grant had not done what he had done, where would this country be. If he had not been there to lead the Union, where would the United States be. If Reagan would not have been born, become governor of California, or President, where would the US be today?

Grant's importance to the nation wins hands down. He should remain on the $50. They can put Reagan's face on "high yield bonds" or credit default swaps.

[Orrex]

13. Thanks to the Reagan economy, I wipe my ass with $50 bills anyway, so this is perfectly appropriate.

[lib2DaBone]

16. Ya, Raygun sure transformed theNation's economic thinking...

He told us all we were going to be part of the "investor" class. Then he busted the unions, shipped the jobs to China and raised taxes on the workers, while giving HUGE breaks to his crony corporations.

Now, we are all minimum wage servants to the Banksters.

[heli]

17. So Karl Rove's little helper opens his mouth about nothing, and it's all over the news

[ixion]

19. Ray-Gun, the Great Destorying Cowboy Clown? The Sidekick for Bonzo?

certainly, one of the LEAST deserving presidents in US History.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

21. Reagan belongs on the THREE DOLLAR bill, IMO, for his bogus regressive "tax cuts",

which really shifted TRILLIONS from the decreasingly-progressive income tax onto the increasingly-regressive FICA payroll tax.

[dembotoz]

22. deface and spend it

put the work ASS HOLE underneath it in majic marker and pass it on.
or pick the pet word of your choice

Could be fun
damn i kind of hope it happens.

[alfredo]

23. Grant was a bad president too.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

24. Better than Reagan.

[alfredo]

41. I wasn't around to know.

[Confusious]

50. There's always these things called books

You could read about it.

[alfredo]

55. I could but my lips get tired.

[Orsino]

25. Put Reagan on the billion-dollar bill.

That's kinda whose president he was.

[old guy]

26. I doubt it.

[SoCalDem]

28. NOT ONE MORE THING NAMED AFTER HIM, until

his and poppy's presidential papers have been gone through with fine toothed combs, and things are made public..

they were due to be released in January 2001...and we all know what happened then..

After being tucked away in TEXAS :wtf: for 9 long years, I'm sure a LOT has gone "missing", or has been "sanitized", but there should still be plenty of interesting things we have never found out about ..

Presidents should be dead for at least 20 years before ANYTHING gets named after them (assassinations being the possible exceptions)..and the bulk of their papers should be released NO LATER than 5 years after they leave office..

[damntexdem]

31. Both were lousy GOP presidents -- put FDR on the 50!

[YOY]

33. He's already on the dime.

The only paper Reagan should be on is TP.

[KamaAina]

32. "How would you like that, sir?" "In twenties, please."

I SAID, IN TWENTIES!!!! :argh:

[formercia]

35. I nominate Ronnie for the 50 Trillion Dollar Bill.

that won't even buy a loaf of bread.

[MiniMe]

36. This is from a single repub congressman, I don't understand why this is getting so much attention

I thought a person had to be dead for 25 years before they could do something like that. Considering the shape the economy is in due to RayGun's economic policies, I'm now sure it is the right time to bring this up. What a dumpass

[safeinOhio]

37. Put it on a public option bill and

make the Republicans vote against his face on the 50.;)

[roamer65]

39. After 2016, hopefully these Raygun lovers will shut up.

Raygun will be on one of the presidential dollar coins in 2016...if the United States exists in 2016...which I doubt it will.

[TexasObserver]

40. FDR to block.

[Arugula Latte]

42. Fuck that. nt

[Marr]

44. Put Reagan on a Credit Card.

That'd be more fitting.

[troubledamerican]

45. Anagram Time: Richard Bruce Cheney = "Behead Rich Currency"

Ronald Wilson Reagan = "Insane Anglo Warlord"

[Chisox08]

48. If any President belongs on the $50 its Franklin Roosevelt

He was one of the best Presidents of the 20th century.
They should put General William T. Sherman on it just to piss them off.

[anonymous171]

49. I would much rather Grant be replaced by General Sherman. nt

[El Supremo]

56. Sure, the guy that authorized genocide against the indians. n/m

[anonymous171]

58. Most people in the 1800s supported that kind of thing. I don't see your point.

[Jax]

51. Our first divorced Prez Racist REthug who ran on "family values"

Racist Right Wing RETHUG First Divorced President Hypocrite Family Values Liar

RACIST.

Alyce

[gmoney]

57. Threadjack: Why do people STILL act like a $50 is some big deal?

An ATM I sometimes go to will kick out four $50 bills instead of ten $20, which is fine by me (less to put in my Costanza-like wallet). But lots of places still make a fuss when I try to pay with a $50. A gas station I go to, even though it costs $35 or so to fill the tank, makes a big production out of taking my $50 bill.

I guess one reason there's nothing bigger than a $100 in general circulation is supposedly to make large untraceable cash transactions more difficult, and to stimulate sales of aluminum briefcases to drug lords.



Just seems odd to me somehow. /Threadjack