Changing American Money

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/20/woman-10-launch-currency-overhaul/31917533/

So yeah, we all remember in June when a woman was going to be put on the 10$ bill and the treasury asked for public opinion. Harriet Tubman appears to be the current favorite. People were mildly upset that Hamilton was being replace on the 10, and not Jackson on the 20, even though Hamilton will not be outright replaced.

American money is now possibly getting a major overhaul, which will include new designs and more anti-counterfeit measures.
 
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I say keep the money the way it's been. It's just money. Does anybody really care who's on it?
 
Andrew Jackson should be immortalised for his hatred for paper money and national banks by putting his image on paper money issued by a national bank. I'm all for putting Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks on our banknotes, solely because our money is boring, but I would rather not get rid of Jackson--our greatest and most badass pre-TR president--on the $20.

Remove Grant from the $50, he did jack shit. Also, $2 bills need to go into circulation. Put someone new on those bills.
 
Americans getting asshurt about Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill are the same morons who don't realize Indian Reservations are basically one step up from internment camps, hamstrung by the government on what kind of support they get just for existing. I mean, real outrage would cause an individual to help lobby for cleaner water, better education, preserving cultural beliefs and heritage and trying to solve the huge alcohol and drug problem.

But no. Screaming about a dead asshole is much more noble.

Bottom Line: I couldn't give a shit who's on the money, just as long as 20 bucks is worth 20 bucks.
 
Gook Choy said:
But no. Screaming about a dead asshole is much easier.
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Fixed that for you.

These are the same people who want Jefferson off the 2$ bill because he owned slaves. There's also a place near my town named after Jefferson, people want it changed because slaves.
Though I will admit, immortalizing a man who hated paper money by putting him on paper money is the most epic trolling in history.
 
I have one spergy "OMG RESPECT OUR HISTORY" thing to say. I'd say I'm comfortable so long as we continue the tradition and not put any living people on our currency. We have an aristocracy in all but name, but let's not have monarchs.
 
Gook Choy said:
I mean, real outrage would cause an individual to help lobby for cleaner water, better education, preserving cultural beliefs and heritage and trying to solve the huge alcohol and drug problem.

But no. Screaming about a dead asshole is much more noble.
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It's not necessarily an either/or thing. Many of the people who've been pissed about Jackson are actively involved in trying to improve/manage reservations. I know it's easy to characterise this as just an SJW thing but it also comes from within the Native American advocacy community.
 
Even by the standards of the time, the Trail of Tears was particularly cruel to Indians. Also Jackson just straight up defied the Suprme Court. He was a hero in the War of 1812 but was a pretty lousy president. Replacing him would be better than replacing the first Treasury Secretary and one of our Founding Fathers.

I think we should stick with the tradition of putting former Presidents and Founding Fathers on there though, and as far as women go they should get elected President before agitating to put one of them on.

Maybe put John Jay or Theodore Roosevelt on the $20 instead.
 
Holdek said:
I think we should stick with the tradition of putting former Presidents and Founding Fathers on there though, and as far as women go they should get elected President before agitating to put one of them on.

Maybe put John Jay or Theodore Roosevelt on the $20 instead.
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I'm somewhat amused by the idea of rappers making it rain "Teddies", but Roosevelt hated that nickname.

Our "tradition" is still kind of modern. There used to be all sorts of abstractions on US currency that obviously never ran for office -Liberty, The god Mercury, and a Plains Indian were all on coins. In the early days of the US this was a necessary measure -had there been currency minted depicting the sitting President, there would have been an absolute furor, and possibly a rebellion.

We see this now with the state quarters -they mostly depict landmarks or an industry associated with the state, few have people on them.
 
Morbid Boredom said:
I'm somewhat amused by the idea of rappers making it rain "Teddies", but Roosevelt hated that nickname.

Our "tradition" is still kind of modern. There used to be all sorts of abstractions on US currency that obviously never ran for office -Liberty, The god Mercury, and a Plains Indian were all on coins. In the early days of the US this was a necessary measure -had there been currency minted depicting the sitting President, there would have been an absolute furor, and possibly a rebellion.

We see this now with the state quarters -they mostly depict landmarks or an industry associated with the state, few have people on them.
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Oh sure, but I'm just referring to paper money. Women have already been on coins, too.
 
Holdek said:
Oh sure, but I'm just referring to paper money. Women have already been on coins, too.
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Really shitty ones, like the Susan B. Anthony dollar that got mistaken for a quarter all the time, causing people to flip out. Or that horrible Sacagewea dollar, which may be the shititest coin ever minted in the United States.
 
AnOminous said:
Really shitty ones, like the Susan B. Anthony dollar that got mistaken for a quarter all the time, causing people to flip out. Or that horrible Sacagewea dollar, which may be the shititest coin ever minted in the United States.
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Just goes to show you shouldn't put women on money ;)
 
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The new hundreds look like fucking Monopoly cash so they might as well put Mr. Pennnybags on it
 
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