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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:19 PM
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The Reagan Dollar Bill?









Future dollars: Is it time to rebrand the buck?
Through the Dollar ReDe$ign Project, artists envision the currency of the future

The competition is modeled after a similar one held in 2005 in Switzerland. The designs submitted then by graphic artist Manuela Pfrunder will soon be incorporated into the country’s currency. The Swiss contest, however, was run by the Swiss National Bank. Smith’s contest is purely a citizens’ effort. (Smith is not even a U.S. citizen; he possesses a green card.) Although he wrote to several government agencies to ask them to join the project, he received in return only a simple “thanks, but no thanks,” in Smith’s words. Even he admits the likelihood of the U.S. Treasury’s adopting one of his contest’s designs is unlikely.

“It’s such a huge impossibility, it makes me think it could actually happen,” Smith said. “I just hold on to this hope that it could happen … It’s my dream.”

What began as a lifelong interest in paper currency and a tongue-in-cheek effort to stimulate the economy has become a personal crusade for Smith, who has taken his lumps from critics online who find the contest disrespectful or short-sighted. Some have peppered the contest website’s comment board with insults and expletives.

“It really means something to people,” Smith said. “The content and symbolism of money are deeply philosophical. I started this from an intuitive point of view and used the idea of design as a simple manifestation of that thought. But as the project gained popularity and people started criticizing it and said it’s not possible, it made me think deeper and deeper about it.”

The policy of the U.S. government is to redesign currency every seven to 10 years, but only for “security and not for aesthetic reasons,” said Lydia Washington, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which prints currency.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39379691/ns/today-money/
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:20 PM
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1. I like the Obama design.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 06:48 PM
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11. Fifty years from now, maybe. I'm okay with our currency the way it is. I sure
as hell don't want to see Reagan on money. Had enough of that slimy coot's face plastered on everything when he was alive.
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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 11:37 PM
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12. Not now though
When a current leader is on currency, you know it's a dictatorship.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 04:13 AM
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19. No. You got it wrong. I'm not saying put Obama on there...
I like the design. I like the way it looks. Take Obama off and put another lead and you've got a fancy design for a new dollar bill.
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CurtEastPoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:20 PM
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2. Well, #1 and #2...there goes lunch. #3...too soon. n/t
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:23 PM
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4. I am just glad they chose the $1 dollar bill for reagun
It would be expensive toilet paper at 5, 10 or more.


Still would be pricey, just not as bad as it could be.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:21 PM
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3. Reagan's face on a $1 would put all the toilet paper companies out of business.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:24 PM
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5. Just be glad it is only $1
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Larry Ogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:36 PM
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7. Not true, when the American people wise up (like that's gonna happen)
and put the Federal Reserve out of business, toilet paper companies will be the number one producers of our new currency, and they will be calling it the brown back, because it will be rough and tough and wont take no shit off of anybody.

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avaistheone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 01:29 AM
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16. Reagan would be good on a $3 dollar bill.
:crazy:
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Sinistrous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 02:35 PM
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6. Maybe putting Ronnie's pic on the dollar bill would be an incentive
for the feds to withdraw the paper $1 and make everybody use $1 coins like they did in Canada. (Wish they would.)
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theothersnippywshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 03:27 PM
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8. The Great Prevaricator should be on the trillion dollar bill. n/t
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 05:13 PM
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9. Reagan needs a bill: the 3-dollar bill.
;-)
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 06:45 PM
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10. BINGO!
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-10 11:39 PM
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13. Fuck no. The money is fine the way it is--the Presidents that are on it are
by-and-large the best American history has to offer.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 12:05 AM
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14. Andrew Jackson? Really?
Jackson who opposed paper money? Jackson who opposed national currency? Jackson who supported slavery? Jackson who massacred Native Americans?

Oh, and by the way, they're not *all* Presidents (in case you haven't seen a Franklin bill in a while), and there's the Sacagawea coin, and we have a long history of Liberty coins as well (though we're not minting them now, AFAIK), along with other non-presidents....

I'd be fine with a small pile of Salmon Chase bills....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 02:14 PM
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20. First of all, I said "by-and-large".
You wouldn't agree with me that Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy are among the best?

I concede the point about Hamilton on the $10, though.
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denimgirly Donating Member (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 12:16 AM
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15. Looks like CANADIAN Dollars -- I like it.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 02:04 AM
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17. Three dollar bill for that fucking Reagan.
Wooden nickel.
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trusty elf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 03:53 AM
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18. Oh, please, no!
Sickening!

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GSLevel9 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 03:05 PM
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21. why make USD look like Euro's? nt
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-10 03:41 PM
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22. Barf on the Reagan bill.
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