President Obama wants faces of women on U.S. currency

[NJCher]

President Obama wants faces of women on U.S. currency

The President raised the idea during an appearance Wednesday in Kansas City, saying he received a note from a young girl asking why women did not appear on U.S. dollar bills and coins.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/president-obama-put-faces-women-u-s-currency-article-1.1886537

See the story for people's suggestions on which female faces might appear on currency.


Cher

[hobbit709]

1. Considering who really runs the country they should use corporate logos.

[valerief]

14. DUzy! nt

[Octafish]

20. +2

Start with Goldman Sachs.

http://www.gregpalast.com/larry-summers-goldman-sacked/

[bigwillq]

27. Zing!

[raindaddy]

41. Love it!

Yes by all means Mr. President, please make an honest oligarchy out of us.

[Initech]

71. Well the constitution says you have to be older than 35 to run for office.

And considering that all corporations are only four years old according to Jon Stewart last nit, they've got a lot of maturing to do.

[Dragonfli]

2. It's about time. /nt

[Action_Patrol]

3. Coins

Preferably something more substantial than the 2 dollar coins that were created and much maligned.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. They forget about Susan B. Anthony and

Sacajawea. I wish we used dollar coins more in this country. I like the Sacajawea coins. And of course, everyone sees Barbara Bush on the singles.

[SCantiGOP]

7. You beat me to it

I was going to point out that Barbara Bush is on the $1 bill.

[treestar]

74. It is odd how people in the US refuse to adopt a dollar coin

There's a one Euro, one British pound and one Australian dollar coin at least. No papers for a denomination of one. Why can't the US get over it? Must be the George Washington thing? Who knows.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Be careful what we wish for.

Do you want to see Sarah Palin every time you open your wallet?

[Yavin4]

15. Talk about currency devaluation! n/t

[4139]

79. Depending on how they crop the pic it could be 'inflation'

[ProfessorGAC]

82. See My Post Closer to The Bottom

I thought the exact same thing.

[iandhr]

6. How about Francis Perkins?

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[excringency]

42. Brilliant choice

[RufusTFirefly]

46. Another vote for Frances Perkins!

Inspired choice.

She witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. It changed the course of her life.

[ctsnowman]

8. Harriet Tubman

About damn time.

[MADem]

77. She gets my vote. nt

[TBF]

9. We have Susan B. Anthony so I'd go with Rosa Parks -

and there's a good list here to ponder: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1551.html

[SidDithers]

10. Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt...

Lots and lots of great women to choose from.

This is a great idea.

Sid

[Octafish]

21. I thought you didn't like the Roosevelts?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1847078

[SidDithers]

22. Why, octafish of DU, one might get the impression that you're stalking me from thread to thread...

Sid

[Octafish]

25. No. Just want to bring up what you once said doesn't match what you now say.

14. I didn't realize McCloy had the authority to sign an EO...

I thought only a President could do that.

My point is that everything FDR did, everything he accomplished, needs to be viewed through the prism of Japanese internment. To take 120,000 Japanese Americans, and put them into camps, is such an enormous violation of civil rights, of human rights, that it must always be considered when discussing FDR's actions.

Sid

[SidDithers]

26. I didn't realize that Eleanor Roosevelt signed EO 9066...

You do realize that FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt are different people, don't you?



Keep tugging that forelock for your heroes, octafish, and continue to ignore any inconvenient facts.

Sid

[Octafish]

48. Like the fact you use DU to denigrate good Democrats.

Got ya.

[SidDithers]

53. I denigrate asshats at DU...

Sometimes, very very rarely, those asshats are Democrats. And if they're anti-science whack-a-doodles, then by default, they're not "good" Democrats.

Much, much more often, I post in opposition to racist, sexist, anti-science asshats who are not Democrats. Asshats like white nationalist and Buchanan buddy Paul Craig Roberts, whose work you still like to bring to DU, even after promising you'd stop using him as a source.

Sid

[Octafish]

55. Paul Craig Roberts wants to bring Bush and Cheney to trial for lying America into war.

He also wants to bring the leadership of the Intelligence Community on trial for spying on Americans.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4504297

Sorry if you don't think that's important.

As for web sites that print his columns, he can't control that. Neither can I.

What I can control is mentioning that you attempt to denigrate me by associating me with them, SidDithers of DU.

[SidDithers]

59. Holy distortion of the truth, Batman!!...

VDARE isn't simply a "web site that prints his columns, he can't control that".

He's an outspoken supporter of VDARE and their mission. He was the face of their fundraising campaign one year.

Don't pretend like you didn't know all this. It's been pointed out to you before.

And yet you continue to promote the writings of a racist white-nationalist at DU.

We've been 'round and 'round the issue of Paul Craig Roberts on any number of occasions. Personally, that's not the kinds of source that I'd be comfortable with. I really don't care what PCR, or David Duke, or Ernst Zundel have to say about economics or the NSA, because I find their opinions about race to be abhorrent. I don't think that commenters who have abhorrent opinions should be legitimized.

Your mileage may vary, obviously.

And I'm not going to engage in your fucking thread-jack any longer. If you want to discuss FDR and Executive Order 9066, or you want to post something else from racist shitbag Paul Craig Roberts, start a new thread. This thread is about Obama's highly commendable, and much overdue, call to put women of note onto currency notes. Too bad you don't seem to have an opinion about that.

Here's Marie Curie on a Polish bank note. I think having a female scientist like Curie on a bank note is an awesome reflection of a society that values women and science.



Sid

[Octafish]

60. No fucking thread jack.

No where have I condoned V-DARE. Why do you say that, SidDithers of DU?

[SidDithers]

62. I don't say that at all, octafish of DU. Show me where I said you condoned VDARE...

Please try to read my actual words, and not the words that your fevered imagination thinks I'm posting.

I said PCR condones and supports VDARE. You tried to make it out like VDARE was just some site that hosts his writings, "and he can't control that". We both know that to be a misleading statement.

Remember when you said this, back in 2012?

If Roberts is a member or supporter of VDARE, I'll stop reading him.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002548165#post113

And you were shown that he spearheaded their 2007 Fundraising Campaign:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070208212620/http://www.vdare.com/appeals/072506_pcr.htm

And yet here you are, still promoting him.





Anyway, back to the thread topic. Here's Jane Austen on the tenner. Pretty cool, eh?




Who do you think should be on American money, octafish of DU? Maybe Rose Kennedy?

Sid

[Octafish]

63. So where did I promote V-DARE?

I can understand why you would feel it important to denigrate good Democrats like the Kennedys when you don't see anything wrong with the BFEE.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3853817

Then, there's the denigration of me for expressing wonder at crop circles.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4286669

There are many more examples.

[SidDithers]

65. Again, where did I say you promoted VDARE?...

Really, you should just stop making things up, and try to focus on what is actually said.

You continue to promote the writings of Paul Craig Roberts, despite the fact that you know he's a Pat Buchanan loving, racist shitbag, white nationalist And despite what you said in 2012 in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002548165#post113

If Roberts is a member or supporter of VDARE, I'll stop reading him.

You know that Paul Craig Roberts is a vocal supporter of VDARE. He spearheaded their fundraising campaign.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070208212620/http://www.vdare.com/appeals/072506_pcr.htm

Crop circles? Seriously?


Back on topic, here's Kate Sheppard on the New Zealand $10 note. I understand she was a pioneering suffragette. Great that they're recognized politically important women in New Zealand.



No opinions on prominent women on banknotes, octafish of DU?

Sid

[Octafish]

67. No, you implied that I supported V-DARE.

Then, again, it's a technique to elicit an angered response. You remember the Dude.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2962203

Did you get him banned, SidDithers of DU?

[SidDithers]

70. "Implied"...

Man, you crack me up, octafish of DU.

Sid

[Octafish]

72. Nothing funny about denigrating Democrats.

Which is why you aren't funny.

[SidDithers]

75. But lots funny about your "outrage"...nt

Sid

[calimary]

44. And Emma Lazarus.

She's the one who wrote the poem that is on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty - you know, the one that includes the wording "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, your wretched refuse... " It would be a really nice finger in the face to the teabaggers and racists and jingoists who are terrorizing those poor unaccompanied immigrant kids.

AND the three you cite, as well. Wouldn't a Rosa Parks coin or bill be a poke in the nose!?

ALL FOR IT!!! I'd love to see one of MY gender on there, and not just the figurative imaginary "Miss Liberty." She isn't a real person. But Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt (!!!!) ARE, and WERE.

[SidDithers]

52. I never knew that was the name of the poet...

thanks for the edjumacation.

Sid

[calimary]

80. I just really love her poem. And maybe I feel that way even more intensely

because those words smack the teabaggers and other racists and jingoists on the Dark Side straight in the face. Those words as much as stick a fire hose up their collective asses and give 'em a political enema with the force of Old Faithful. Too bad it doesn't clean out their vile, infected, racist, sexist, Troglodyte mindset, too.

For that reason, I would LOVE to see Emma Lazarus on a coin or a denomination of paper money. Just for the "so THERE" effect!

[PatrickforO]

69. Premature now, but give Elizabeth Warren another 20 years and we can put her on a 20

[Arkana]

11. Hmmm...Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Dolley Madison, Susan B. Anthony...

All potential candidates. Maybe we could get fucking Andrew Jackson off the $20.

[Jack Rabbit]

18. . . . and replace him with Sacagawea . . .

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[LisaLynne]

31. I would vote for that!! NT

[Arkana]

43. I wonder how pissed Jackson would be if he knew his face was on paper money.

After the fight he put up to destroy the Bank of the United States out of spite, I imagine he'd be rather unhappy.

[packman]

12. Screw those historical figures, go pop culture

Kim Kardashian on the new $2 bill. Sarah Palin on the 1/2 cent coin (only does things half ass anyway), Michelle Bachmann on both sides of a quarter (1/4 of her brain in use at any time and being two-faced).

[clarice]

16. Ginger, from Gilligan's Island? nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

34. I was thinking maybe a Kardashian...

but if you want to go Old School, I'm down with that.

[clarice]

50. Kardashion, maybe on the $20.00 bill. Isn't that what they charge per.......appointment? nt

[Capt. Obvious]

17. I recomend Sacagawea

[raccoon]

19. I want photos of rock stars on U.S. currency. Elvis on a $1, Chuck Berry on a $5, and so on. nt

[Zorra]

23. Alice Paul!!! nt

[Greybnk48]

49. Alice Paul for certain!!!

A true hero!

[conservaphobe]

29. Good idea!

The snarkiness in this thread is disappointing.

And not a very clever way to conceal misogyny.

[BainsBane]

33. +1

[B Calm]

30. Want to see republicans heads explode, suggest putting the first lady Michelle on currency!

[MineralMan]

32. Harriet Tubman would be my first choice.

That'd tweak some right-wingers' noses nicely. Here's a good image that would translate well to an engraving on money:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

35. Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger.

[BainsBane]

38. Sanger unfortunately carries the connection with eugenics.

I've love to see Goldman, but I can't see congress or even the President approving an anarchist.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

39. Alas, neither can I.

Personally, I much rather see artists, musicians, writers, social workers, on bills rather than politicians and generals.

[BainsBane]

40. and scientists

Yes. I agree.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. I like this one....

[Historic NY]

37. Lady Liberty has been around for sometime...

apparently there isn't an awarness of our national currency. Granted all are not in circulation...

.

http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/?action=fun_facts8

[Historic NY]

57. Eleanor Roosevelt would be one of my picks.

[customerserviceguy]

78. You beat me to it

At one time, we didn't have pictures of dead Presidents (and other Americans) on our money, only the allegorical ones like Lady Liberty. I still remember my grandmother (born 1902) referring to her ten-cent pieces as either "lady dimes" or "man dimes".

[NewJeffCT]

45. How about he propose Michelle Obama on our currency

and, watch the Freepers die off on the spot due to either massive heart attacks or massive brain aneurysms.

[RufusTFirefly]

47. Another suggestion. Alternate the mottos

In God We Trust
In Allah We Trust
In Yahweh We Trust
.. and perhaps a few more

Watch more heads explode. I'm an atheist, so I don't have a dog in this hunt, but it seems only fair.

[SidDithers]

54. In ourselves we trust...nt

Sid

[PatrickforO]

68. OR, we could enlarge the eye on the pyramid to a great big paranoid thing and label it NSA

[Enrique]

51. let's put Squeaky Fromme on the one dollar bill

ten points to whoever names the movie that came from.

[RufusTFirefly]

56. I Googled, so I won't give it away

I am looking forward to seeing his latest film though.

[HughBeaumont]

61. Fine, as long as "Mrs. 5-4" isn't among them.

THANKS FOR THE FAILURE FUHRER, SANDY!

"Shoulda Woulda Coulda" . . . right, Mrs. 5-4?

[milestogo]

64. Meanwhile, US women want more currency

for the jobs they are doing.

[PatrickforO]

66. My vote goes to Eleanor Roosevelt

My mom was a WWII era 'Rosie the riveter' who had a job with National Biscuit Company. Basically, when most men were drafted to go fight, the women had to go into the factories and produce armaments, food, etc. for the war effort. One of the greatest things Eleanor Roosevelt did was put subsidized child care centers near the factories where the women were working. This made it easier for the women to balance their work and children. The thing is, Franklin NEVER would have thought of that; it took someone like Eleanor who understood women's issues. She also contributed tremendously to the concept of basic human rights through her work with the United Nations.

Of course, after the war Republicans immediately got rid of the subsidized child care, and vetoed Eleanor's human rights agenda in the UN because they were afraid it might adversely affect US business interests (read profits).

But think of how far sighted Eleanor Roosevelt was; when women entered the workforce in a big way beginning in the 1980s the issues she addressed clear back in the 1940s were still relevant. Child care, health care, freedom from harassment, safe living and work environments - all those things.

Eleanor should be on our currency for sure.

[Octafish]

73. Lots of great nominees here...

http://www.greatwomen.org/

[samsingh]

76. that would be good.

[ProfessorGAC]

81. OK, As Long As. . .

. . .Nancy Reagan or Sarah Palin aren't among the choices.