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Who Should Be on the Fifty Dollar Bill?

Who Should Be on Fifty Dollar Bill?

  • President Grant - No Change

    Votes: 27 41.5%
  • President Reagan - Best 20th Century President

    Votes: 12 18.5%
  • President Carter

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • President F Roosevelt (FDR)

    Votes: 9 13.8%
  • President Wilson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • General Patton

    Votes: 2 3.1%
  • President Eisenhower

    Votes: 3 4.6%
  • President Kennedy

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • Grant Williams, The Incredible Shrinking Man

    Votes: 2 3.1%
  • Gumby

    Votes: 8 12.3%

  • Total voters
    65
I don't know man, Reagan and FDR were political polar opposites, you'll have to explain that one further.

I am trying to find the Time Magazine article I read this in, but when the Republicans had a movement for replacing FDR with Reagan on the dime, Nancy Reagan pointed out that FDR was Reagan's political hero. This notion that you have to agree with all the policies of a president to recognize that they were a great president is a new one and reflects the extreme partisanship today. Reagan, like most anyone 20 years ago, and like the majority of historians, recognized FDR as one our greatest presidents if not our greatest president. That doesn't mean they agree with everything FDR did, but they recognize that had it not been for FDR, we may have not survived as a nation.

I don't agree with everything Reagan did, but its obvious that history will judge him as being a great president.
 
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I think this whole debate is stupid and see no reason why we should limit the images on coins or paper money to presidents. Why not have other influential people, such as MLK or Jimi Hendrix, or have scenes from great moments in history, or even national monuments.

But ultimately, its just money, so I don't care if there is a picture of ALF or Ron Jeremy's boner on it, it still will buy me stuff. And I will probably see it only once every 6 to 9 months, because we all use bank cards these days anyway.
 
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Gotcha. I don't remember that and I am a huge fan of the late Mr. Reagan, I'm going to have to check back to get the full context on it.

edit- Of course Reagan supported FDR, he was liberal in that time, but changed course and even showed remorse for his earlier worldview. That changes the entire point levvied in this discussion, and it is frankly dishonest.

Well, not necessarily. If I could remember correctly, he still kept a large portion of the New Deal ideology, but felt that the Great Society was quite a bit different, and also not worthy of support.

And, no problem. I didn't think you were thinking of me.
 
I think Grant is just fine, but Patton would be awesome...like, really awesome.

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Patton should be on the hundred zilllion FU dollar bill!

It bugs when we change our currency. I loved Reagan as a leader. But...you know...rename a city...an airport...I think thats fine.
 
I don't know what the cost would be to retool not only our money printing machinery, but to also retool all the other money machines out there (vending machines, ATMs, gas station pay-point machines, slot machines, public transit ticket machines, etc.) to be able to read the new currency images, but I imagine it would be considerable.

Seems to me we have a zillion more important things to spend our time, money, and effort on, than dicking around with the pictures on our currency.
 
This great American hero:

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But this man truly represented America:

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I don't know what the cost would be to retool not only our money printing machinery, but to also retool all the other money machines out there (vending machines, ATMs, gas station pay-point machines, slot machines, public transit ticket machines, etc.) to be able to read the new currency images, but I imagine it would be considerable.

Seems to me we have a zillion more important things to spend our time, money, and effort on, than dicking around with the pictures on our currency.
I agree with that, if you want to put a politician on a new currency it would have to be something limited and not necessarily in usage in those mechanized sectors. Of course, your point of having much more important issues at the time trumps all of that, we got stuff to fix right now in the economy.
 
Congressman Wants Reagan on $50

I personally think Grant's face is just fine on the Fifty. It was his generalship that saved the Union, after all.

But let's ignore that and see who could replace him.

I think we should go with putting some of past civil rights leaders on our currency like Martin Luther King jr. I also like the idea of putting General Patton on our currency too.
 
I think we should go with putting some of past civil rights leaders on our currency like Martin Luther King jr. I also like the idea of putting General Patton on our currency too.

I'm sure the HUUUUGEST push EVER will be to put the First Half-Moon Cookie President on the currency, partly as an effort to gloss over the fact that he's the biggest failure of a president this nation has ever seen, and partly to call all who oppose this idea racists.
 
I'm sure the HUUUUGEST push EVER will be to put the First Half-Moon Cookie President on the currency, partly as an effort to gloss over the fact that he's the biggest failure of a president this nation has ever seen, and partly to call all who oppose this idea racists.
So will they want to change the name to the "Fitty Dollah Bill" too?

:bolt
 
If it were to change, I would go for either John Locke or Jackie Cochran.
 
Congressman Wants Reagan on $50

I personally think Grant's face is just fine on the Fifty. It was his generalship that saved the Union, after all.

But let's ignore that and see who could replace him.

Since it won't be worth the paper it's printed on by the time he gets voted out,... I say let's skip protocal and put Obummer's pic on it.

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How about Ron Paul?

A hell of a lot better than that stinking Ulysses Grant.
 
How about Ron Paul?

A hell of a lot better than that stinking Ulysses Grant.

I don't think we have a tradition of putting living people on money.
 
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Since it won't be worth the paper it's printed on by the time he gets voted out,... I say let's skip protocal and put Obummer's pic on it.

obama_smoking.png

You can put Obama on the new deeper in debt $100 trillion dollar bill. Don't laugh; they're coming soon, like Zimbabwe.
 
You can put Obama on the new deeper in debt $100 trillion dollar bill. Don't laugh; they're coming soon, like Zimbabwe.
And they'll be so worthless that you can use them to roll your own smokes, too.
 
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