What do you think of the Reagan Dime?

[Fovea]

Poll question: What do you think of the Reagan Dime?

I think that all Air Traffic Controller restroms should have a Reagan memorial toilet, but that is just me.

[JI7]

1. Nancy Reagan has already come out against it

she helped put an end to the talk of it started earlier by some people.

[radwriter0555]

6. I loved that. She gave the freepers the total smack down on that...

first sensible thing she ever did.

[LTR]

2. Put his face on a slug (nm)

[Warpy]

16. Stamp "REAGAN" on all bounced checks

or dunning notices from past due loan payments.

THAT is his legacy.

[LynneSin]

3. Such disrespect for FDR

then again, neo-conservatism was born during FDR's New Deal - so it figures!

[BurtWorm]

15. That's what it's all about.

There's a reason they want the dime and not, say, the $500. They're all about the symbolism of doing away with FDR's legacy.

[dweller]

4. it depends

after adjusting for inflation, how much will trickle down to me?

dp

[trogdor]

5. If it would get people to use the damn thing...

...put him on the Golden Dollar and discontinue the $1 bill.

Germany used to do something with the 2 mark coin that I thought was pretty cool. They would put the faces of their dead chancellors (post-Hitler only) on them. All of their dead chancellors, on a rotating basis. We could do something like that.

Can you imagine Harry Truman on the dollar? OTOH, can you imagine Nixon on the dollar? Harding? McKinley?

[demnan]

8. No!

It's bad enough they named our airport and U.S. Customs Headquarters after this man. Really! Enough is enough!

[LoverOfLiberty]

14. I have an old coffee cup from the 70's

I got it from my grandma. Has a picture of a $3 bill with Nixon's face on it.

My grandma swears that Nixon tried to outlaw the things!

[Kellanved]

23. not just Chancellors; important politicians

The variants I know:
Adenauer (first post-war German Chancellor)
Theodor Heuss (first post-war German President)
Kurt Schumacher (first post-war Social Democratic opposition leader)
Ludwig Erhard (second post-war German Chancellor)
Franz Strauß(arch-conservative failed chancellor candidate - :puke:)
Willy Brandt (Social Democratic Chancellor)

[gratuitous]

7. Why not the Reagan penny?

After all, Lincoln is already featured on the five dollar bill. And wasn't Hatch or someone just as loathesome advocating abolishment of the penny recently? We could put the Hollywood Twit on the penny, then phase it out. In 50 or 100 years, having something to do with Ronald Reagan might actually be worth something!

[mopinko]

9. no, no. no. especially the dime

roosevelt is on the dime to commemorate the march of dimes and the fight against polio. how ironic would it be to bump him off in favor of the man who did so much to help aids get a foothold in this country?
no. no. a thousand times no.

[coltman]

10. Only if they take Babs off the quarter.N/T

[Cannikin]

11. LOL.....You aint right!

[Walt Starr]

12. I'd fucking stock up on nickels

and refuse to take dimes if that happened.

[NoPasaran]

13. I'd be in favor of the Reagan dime bag n/t

[Delano]

17. Bumping FDR in favor of Reagan is a sickenning affront.

If he must be on money, do it on some other coin (or move Rosevelt to the quarter)

FDR was one off the greatest presidents, EVER. To bump him in favor of one of the worst would be a crime.

FUCK THAT.

[Monte Carlo]

18. I'd be all for putting Reagan's mug on our Treasury bonds.

You know, on all that gov't debt we keep printing up. It sounds appropriate to me.

[troublemaker]

20. That's a great idea!

[troublemaker]

19. Is that the dime he dropped on western civilization?

<see David Mamet's SPEED THE PLOUGH for explication>

[NinetySix]

21. Yes to Reagan Dime!

Here is a piece I wrote when I first heard of the proposal:

I consider myself a very progressive independent. I must take issue, however, with those opposed to the proposed minting of a Reagan-head dime. It may surprise some to learn, but I am fully in favor of the bill, and I hope it will pass quickly. My support, however, is conditional on one amendment to the proposal: that the head of Ronald Reagan be simultaneously minted on the obverse of the nickel, thus also replacing the Jefferson nickel. One might wonder why I would lend my support to such a proposal. The answer is simple, and the symbolism of such a change, I think, would be patently obvious.

Ronald Reagan was the president who initiated the process of selling off the Government of the United States piecemeal to corporate interests. This process, under Bush Junior, has been accelerated to the point of near-completion. Labor has been abused to the point that most of the nation's manufacturing jobs have been shipped off to countries with vast supplies of cheap, unskilled labor which are simply dying to be exploited. In the place of those jobs, now gone forever, have come McWal-Jobs, flipping shitty pickle burgers for minimum wage or greeting bargain-hungry shoppers in lieu of collecting retirement and pension benefits. In short, American workers are being nickeled-and-dimed.

What could be more appropriate than seeing the face of the man who started it all on the face of those nickels and dimes?

[Career Prole]

22. Every president should have their own coin

We've seen the popularity of "State Quarters"...how 'bout those "Presidential Pennies"?
Limited run, every president will end up in piggy banks in the homes of their biggest fans, and then we'll be done with 'em.

[AndyTiedye]

24. If Anywhere, Reagan Should be on the Government Bonds

because he ran up the biggest deficits in history
(until Bush II came along anyway)

[samhonk]

26. hee hee

Neal Stephenson's book "Snow Crash" happens in a post-hyperinflation America. In it, Reagan's face is on the $1,000,000,000,000,000 bill.

...though now I think of it, he never comes right out and says that. Everyone just refers to the bills as "Gippers" (and the smaller $1 trillion bills are "Meeses").

[Lisa]

25. FDR association with dime is just too perfect ...

Much of the world associates polio vaccine with US-funded research (thanks to "March of Dimes" promoted by Roosevelt himself). If they put Reagan on the time, it's easy to forget what an historical accomplishment the March of Dimes was ... polio may soon be eradicated globally, and FDR's work was an important contribution!