So some want to put Reagan on the $50.
Why not Edison? Einstein? MLK? Booker T. Washington? Jane Addams? (If you don’t know about her, you’re like most people. Maybe putting her on currency might help. She’s a Nobel Peace Prize winner.)
The point is, we have so much more to offer than politics.
What do you think? Who would you suggest?
CV59StormVet - I am certainly not suggesting removing Washington, Lincoln, etc. But to say Reagan is in that class, less than 50 years after his term, that’s just not right.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
we have Ben Franklin
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
There are certainly others more qualified than Reagan. Maybe we should put a woman on our currency.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
I think it’s a caesar thing. The Sacajawea (sp?) coin went over like a ton of lead.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Keep it the way it is. I don’t even care who’s on the currency quite frankly when there are more important issues to worry about.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Grant is better. He led the union against angry racist conservatives in the civil war. All Reagan did was monopolize the American dream for the multinational corps.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
You should put Vladimir Len- oh is this limited to American politicians?
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Reagan makes me vomit. I volunteer Alice Paul.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
only presidents are allowed with the exception of ben franklin
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Put James Naismith on it. He invented basketball and was the greatest person to ever live in the U.S.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Reagan’s name should be removed from the National Airport. It’s a disgrace and a sacrilege.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Jerry Lewis
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
jjt is wrong.
look at a Ten
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Soooo, let me get this straight, (and I’m NOT trying to antagonize you, just asking), …you think the man that led us through the revolution, then helped to frame the new country and even refused the crown when it was offered to him shouldn’t be on the $1 Dollar bill? Or the man that literally saved the union, freed the slaves and placed the South onto the path of reconstruction rather than subjugation after the Civil War shouldn’t be on the $5 Dollar bill? I’m not sure I think Ronald Reagan should be on the $50 Dollar bill (always thought Grant’s contribution during the Civil War gave him that honor). If you want to honor people like Thomas Edison, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King and Jane Addams, …wouldn’t it be better to put them on coins that can be struck in a commemorative fashion making them worth more? Just asking.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Reagan was the last good president that America has had… we need to get it right in 2012 people
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
There have been some on U.S. coins who were not politicians. A Native American brave and the Native American woman and her baby (I can’t spell her name). And there was Susan B. Anthony. Ben Franklin on the 100 and formerly on the half dollar never held elected office.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Dick Cheney on the 2 dollar bill
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
There have been people other than Presidents on our currency. Alexander Hamilton was never a President, neither was Ben Franklin or Susan B. Anthony or Sacajawea. There have been others as well but that was on obsolete currency that is no longer in circulation.
I disagree with Edison,Jane Adams or Einstein. But I do agree that Martin Luther King, Booker T. Washington or Fredrick Douglass would be good choices. But I think Ronald Reagan’s success at destroying the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union and liberating millions of Eastern Europeans and Russians from that tyranny is the best choice.
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