Another fab Repub idea: Put Reagan on the $50 Bill

[ISUGRADIA]

It seems like they'll keep bringing this up again and again and again. How about this: put Reagan on all Treasury notes used to finance the national debt since he so richly contributed to that cause.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5619678.html
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ronald Reagan has an airport, an aircraft carrier and buildings around the nation named for him, but his admirers aren't through. As the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Reagan Revolution approaches, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., is proposing legislation to put the late president on the $50 bill.

"Not all of America uses Ronald Reagan airport, but all of America uses our currency," Kline said. "We have used currency to commemorate great leaders in our past. It seemed to me this was a good way to do it."

But Rep. Jim Oberstar, D.-Minn., calls Kline's proposal "a fatuous idea."

"We could, as I proposed during the debate about adding 'Reagan' to Washington National Airport, name the unnamed Bureau of the Public Debt for Ronald Reagan," Oberstar said, because Reagan did more to expand the national debt than any previous president.

[MADem]

1. Three dollar bill would be a better bet n/t

[oasis]

10. Or toilet paper.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Like this?

[ISUGRADIA]

34. ewww that is one nasty tattoo

[chicagiana]

2. I'd put him on a $1 coin ...

... If it meant our country would get it's collective head out of our asses and start using $1 coins which is the equivalent of a 1972 quarter.

[craigolemiss]

12. And replace the only---

money that traditionally has had a woman on it?

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. ALL of our coinage traditionally had a woman on it, actually.

Supposed to be a personification of "liberty". That started to change in 1909, when Lincoln went on the penny, on the centennial of his birth...and then in the thirties and forties, Jefferson, Washington, FDR and Benjamin Franklin replaced the "goddess of liberty"/native American representations on the remaining coins. (personification of an ideal or virtue isn't QUITE the same thing as Susan B Anthony, but then she only went on the dollar in 1979, which is a little too recent to be "traditional").

[chicagiana]

43. I'd replace it with ...

I'd replace it with a currency that people would USE for the sake of saving the US treasury millions of dollars every year over the cost of recovering, destroying and printing new $1 bills.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Hm. Replace one largely oblivious Republican...

who presided over a staggeringly corrupt administration with ANOTHER largely oblivious Republican who presided over a staggeringly corrupt administration. The only difference I can see is that Grant at least was a brilliant military commander and war hero, and he had a beard.

[Fridays Child]

4. Put him on the slug.

[bluestateguy]

5. When they name an aircraft carrier after Bill Clinton, we'll talk

I just want to piss off the manly military types and the neo-con keyboard-peckers at the think tanks.

[charlie]

6. If they want to create a $1 trillion dollar bill

and put his treasury busting, mammon loving face on that, I'd be okay with it.

[TheStates]

7. A better fab idea: End national poverty.

Instead of pretending like you give a shit, republicans, actually do something authentic and try to end national poverty and work towards a common defense.

Oh I'm sorry. Can't do it? That's because you're the party of the rich, social class upper types who only care about themselves.

And I wonder if you will forget that ever?

[applegrove]

8. That's a great idea. The vast majority of Americans will never see him.

[autorank]

9. Do NOT mess with my Grant's...He's perfect, a reminder of our Union!

[Charlie Brown]

11. I think Repugs would rather see Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis on bills

[craigolemiss]

13. Why not?

Let me ask a guaranteed flame me question---How far back in history does a person need to be to consider them merely a historical reference rather than a lightning bolt for political divisiveness?

How about Sherman? He was a banker after all? but that might inflame certain people in the south.

Lincoln I see every day--isn't that waving the bloody shirt?

Why not put Reagan on the 50? its a fairly unused bill anyway. Get some good out of it and have it pass with lots of Dems voting for it then use the vote for the bill to gain Votes to get rid of the Current repubs?

Think more Machiavellian rather than brute force.

Just an idea ---flame away

[Missy M]

15. It would be great if life were only that simple - dream away!

[TheStates]

17. That would give ammunition to the repubs if dems voted for it....

Nobody should vote for it....Let the repubs all vote for it if they have to get it, and once they do, democrats can use that against them along with dozens of other issues to throw them out of the house.

[jmowreader]

18. Because the Reagan Lovefest is getting out of hand

and this is a good place to start putting it to a halt.

You ever hear of the Reagan Legacy Project? It is their goal to name something in every county in the United States after Ronald Reagan.

Well, I could understand that if they were trying to name sewage treatment plants, county jails, gravel pits, garbage dumps and the euthanasia rooms in dog pounds after Ronald Reagan, but they're trying to coopt all the good things and name them after that thug.

He was the president of the United States, and yeah we should name a couple of things after any president (BTW, where's the USS Richard Milhous Nixon? Nixon was a World War II Navy veteran. If they're going to name ships after presidents, why not one who was actually in the Navy? Besides, Nixon turned out to be no more crooked than any recent Republican president.) but Reagan's got an aircraft carrier and an airport. I think that's more than sufficient.

[bumblebee1]

41. Regarding the airport

I remember watching a comedienne one day with this one liner: Irony is naming an airport after a president who disbanded the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Union.

[autorank]

26. You're good..."The Sherman" Maybe a new bill...t

That was good flame bate but it went no where. You couuld propose a "Wallace" and really get things going.

[melody]

14. It can go along with my Ronald Reagan commemorative doormat

[HysteryDiagnosis]

19. That's fine as long as they can fit a nice little

essay on the major points of the Iran Contra CRIME.

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. Rather than change an existing bill...

...why not create a NEW bill just for Reagan's Holy Image (tm)? Make it, say, the 53-dollar bill.

I'm sure, in what's left of my life, I'll see as many of those as I will a $50 bill.

[TreasonousBastard]

21. They have to do this...

because as time goes on, people are asking "Who was Reagan and just what did he do?"

Eight years of Reagan and no one can put a finger on any one lasting accomplishment, good or bad. His legacy is pretty much one of-- nothing.

The most criminal indictments of any administration in history? Misguided attempts to destroy many government programs that ended up not eliminating them, sometimes even strengthening them? The massive debt?

That's about it for Reagan, and all of this has been eclipsed forever by Shrub who has taken the "Rreagan Revolution" to new extremes not even dreamed of by Reagan.

Except for the indictments. One would hope some are coming down the pike, though.

[jackster]

27. oh no - when I ask what did Reagan do

I get three things

1. He made America feel good about herself again
2. He ended Communism all by his little lonesome
3. He brought down the interest rates so I could by a second home

see, he does have a legacy - !!!!

[ConcernedNonpartisan]

22. Right

Reagan on the front and a monkey on the back! Or, is that a monkey on our back?

[all.of.me]

23. hurl

:puke:

[anarch]

25. how about we sandblast Lincoln's face at the Lincoln Memorial,

and replace it with Ronald Reagan's face?

Good grief.

[nonconformist]

28. Next thing you know, they'll want to add Reagan's head

to Mt Rushmore.

[charlie]

29. Next thing?

It's one of those perennial ideas goofball Republicans have been foisting on us for years. Congress has debated it more than once.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/288213.stm
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/3391422/detail.html
http://www.reaganlegacy.org/articles/nyt.02.11.01.htm

[nonconformist]

30. Fuck, I had forgotten that.

Figures... only in today's culture can you make a sarcastic comment or joke and it turns out true.

[charlie]

31. So true

Satire is impossible anymore.

[Dulcinea]

32. I have a better idea.

Put Reagan's picture on all urinal cakes used in government buildings. Then people will see him every day.

[symbolman]

33. Why not just put him on the BILLION dollar bill

it would make it so much easier for the crooks in our govt and Halliburton, etc to pass the bucks around and hide their loot :)

[Marr]

36. Excellent idea. And much more appropriate for Reagan.

"Halliburton's gettin' twenty Reagans fer New Orleans!"

[Pepperbelly]

35. What in the fuck are these idiots thinking about?

As if there were nothing more important than memorializing that doddering old son of a bitch.

Jebus Christ on a fucking crutch but these rat-bastards never cease to amaze me.

[Walt Starr]

37. I dont have a problem with this idea

You'd just be switching one corrupt Republican president with another.

:shrug:

If we do it, then let's put Clinton on the $20 bill.

:evilgrin:

[charlie]

38. Put Clinton on the $5

Turn Republicans into big tippers.

Uh, you got five ones? No? Keep the change.

[LoZoccolo]

44. No! Leave Kerry on the $20 bill. n/t

[melody]

39. another thing...what about John Adams?

He was a far, far, far more important force than ol' jellybean.

There must be twenty other people who deserve commemoration over that guy.

[Deja Q]

40. There are surely better things that can be done with our time and money?!

Kline is a joke. And should he shout one syllable regarding fiscal responsiblity, he may as well STFU there and then. He's a hypocrite.

[MisterP]

42. three men I admired least:/ Father, Son, and Holy Ghost/

Reagan, Poppy, and The Beast/ tho' outta order, this rhymes the most

[FVZA_Colonel]

46. Nice one.

I love that song, and I'm glad to see someone else does.

[tritsofme]

45. Here's one thing that was aptly named after Saint Ronnie:

[RobbinsdaleDem]

47. What is it with these Republicans and hero-worship?

Geez, they treat Reagan and Bush like they're gods. These ditsy Minnesota Republicans wanted to rename one of our highways Ronald Reagan Blvd. or some such idiotic thing. If that happened, I'd never drive on that road again.

[ISUGRADIA]

49. What really pissed me off about what you mentioned was that

they wanted to rename Floyd Olson Highway. Farm Labor Governor during the 1930s who was (oh my god) kind of radical.

He died in office at an early age during his campaign for the US Senate. SO try and dump a true Minnesotan for Reagan. Typical of these jerks.

[OrlandoGator]

48. I think we should put Reagan's picture on all U.S. Treasury bonds.

You know, the ones we've issued to China in order to help finance our $8 trillion national debt.