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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 would vote for a president. Which does not matter much to me.
 
I don't care. It still spends the same no matter who is on it.
 
Grant stays on the 50$ bill, Reagan on Mt. Rushmore, Carter on a new 1.5 million dollar bill since Obama has adopted most of those policies and there now is no doubt they don't work, so it will probably take about 1.5million in the next decade for a loaf of bread due to inflation. And Obama on future foreclosure notices, unemployment checks, and denial of medical service claims.
 
Grant should stay on the $50. He helped see Reconstruction through the South after the Civil War, which he helped win for the United States. All this while being drunk and having crooked administrators and lobbyists hounding him. I don't think that should be forgotten.
 
samsmart said:
Grant should stay on the $50. He helped see Reconstruction through the South after the Civil War, which he helped win for the United States. All this while being drunk and having crooked administrators and lobbyists hounding him. I don't think that should be forgotten.
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And before dying valiantly, he grabbed Grover Cleveland by the collar and said "Earn this, earn this!" Thus Cleveland put him on the $50.

:cool:
 
Cilogy said:
Since Kennedy is the best 20th century president, let's put him on!
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Bah, he had his chance with the 50 cent piece, dangit! :mrgreen:
 
I change my vote to Gumby. He was pro-choice right?
 
LaMidRighter said:
Grant stays on the 50$ bill, Reagan on Mt. Rushmore, Carter on a new 1.5 million dollar bill since Obama has adopted most of those policies and there now is no doubt they don't work, so it will probably take about 1.5million in the next decade for a loaf of bread due to inflation. And Obama on future foreclosure notices, unemployment checks, and denial of medical service claims.
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Okay, that's spooky....


:iloveyou:
 
Why do we need to change the bill at all? Grant is a genuine American hero, though he shouldn't have entered politics, and was beaten down by the crappy politicians of his time.
 
I vote for this kid:

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I think Grant is just fine, but Patton would be awesome...like, really awesome.

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Cilogy said:
Since Kennedy is the best 20th century president, let's put him on!
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Even Ronald Reagan himself would have said that FDR was the best 20th century president.

At any rate, why change it, who carries cash anymore anyway?
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Even Ronald Reagan himself would have said that FDR was the best 20th century president.

At any rate, why change it, who carries cash anymore anyway?
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I don't know man, Reagan and FDR were political polar opposites, you'll have to explain that one further.
 
LaMidRighter said:
I don't know man, Reagan and FDR were political polar opposites, you'll have to explain that one further.
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It seems to me that you can not like the policies of the president, but think he was an effective president. FDR did guide us out of the depression and though WWII. Its hard to argue that he wasn't an effective leader. You might not like his politics, but he provided the leadership when it was required.

Though I personally did not like Reagan's politics, I do believe he was an effective leader, and thus a decent president.

On the other, we have had president's that we may have agreed with on policy but were very ineffective presidents. I can see many that might like the general policies of the last guy, but not considered him to be a particularly good president.
 
LaMidRighter said:
I don't know man, Reagan and FDR were political polar opposites, you'll have to explain that one further.
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Reagan publicly gave support of FDR. To a lot of so-called moderates, that was the sign that the GOP was no longer fighting the New Deal, and that was seen as a good thing.
 
Fiddytree said:
Reagan publicly gave support of FDR. To a lot of so-called moderates, that was the sign that the GOP was no longer fighting the New Deal, and that was seen as a good thing.
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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.
 
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Oh and Fiddy, I don't mean you as being dishonest, only that it is disengenous by those that would use a person's youth worldview as an arguing point to support their side in an overall career body.
 
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