OMG Reagan replacing FDR on the dime?!

[icymist]

I found this advertisement on the History International chanel:

"Americans from all over the country are besieging their Congressmen and Senators with demands to dump the Roosevelt dime and replace him with the image of President Reagan."

And sure enough, I found their web site advocating this abomination in politics! Maybe enough of us writing our Congressmen and Senators in outrage over this will change minds. FDR saved this country while Reagan set the stage for Dumbya to ruin it!

P.S. notice how this ad demotes FDR to just his last name while applauding Reagan as POTUS!

[EFerrari]

1. Must be those Diebold "Americans".

:shrug:

[valerief]

2. Hey, I heard on Air America they're trying to get rid of the

penny and nickel (I don't have details). Maybe they'll get rid of the dime, too. It's not worth anything anymore, is it? I think they're making it out of cardboard now.

[Ediacara]

8. I haven't heard about dumping the nickel, but the penny is long overdue

it takes more than three cents to manufacture a penny, and some countries have dumped their pennies with no ill affects (Australia and New Zealand).

[Cyrano]

14. If it's dumped, the nickel becomes the new penny. If the nickel is

dumped, the dime becomes the new penny, and so on. How long would it take for all change to vanish which would turn the dollar into the new penny? Is this something we really want to do?

[hobbit709]

When I was in Italy in the early 70's

the smallest coin made was 10 lira. It was made out of aluminum and all it was good for was to put in the slot on the coin box in the elevator to ride up in apartment buildings. The stores all listed as prices something ending in a odd number of lira like 97 and what you got in change was a couple pieces of candy.

[valerief]

25. Oh, the Italian tooth decay! That currency configuration must have

been concocted by wily Italian dentists.

[me b zola]

30. I love pennies

I love them because people discard them and leave them on the ground. I always pick them up and put them in my penny jar. What others believe to be worthless I turn into $$. :)

[sutz12]

3. And note how, due to Reagan's economic policies....

his dime costs $10.00. :rofl:

[MoseyWalker]

10. and you end up owing

$12.00

[Sapere aude]

4. I saw a picture today of a guy's motorcycle that had pictures of

Bush,Reagan and Lincoln on the side of his gas tank. Give me a fucking break!

[Clark2008]

48. Where else would you put them?

I think a gas tank is the perfect place for Bush and Reagan.

Now, Lincoln deserves better, but, hey... :shrug:

[CottonBear]

5. Nancy Reagan is against this. n/t

[novalib]

12. It's (Almost) Be Worth It To Piss Her Off.

It would almost be worth having RayGun's image on the dime in order to piss off that old bag.

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. I don't think we should cut our nose to spite our face.

Nancy Reagan isn't afraid to kick George Bush in the ass when she gets the chance.

[MadHound]

6. While I do find this disturbing,

I think this is more of a case of somebody parting freepers from their money. This isn't a real dime they're hawking, it is a proof dime, basically a dime sized piece of metal stamped with Ronnie's mug, and sold for big bucks to freepers and ditto heads.

Don't get me wrong, there is an organized movement afoot to put Reagan's face on everything, including some form of money. But I think this is fairly harmless, just seperating the rubes from their cash.

[brentspeak]

7. "Americans from all over the country..."

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[patdem]

9. I guess the 'March of Dimes' will have to go to a different denomination?

The March of Dimes became the March of Dimes because FDR was crippled and so they used the dime as their rallying cry. Who said all republicans are not dumb, but all dumb people are republicans?

[valerief]

28. Great point! n/t

[RB TexLa]

11. And if Carter had died they would be saying the same thing to sell their

Carter coins.

[MoseyWalker]

13. will they

mint a few 100 billion, then recall them to pay the interest on the cost of minting them, and then mint some more?

[MoseyWalker]

15. at least they don't want to push for the face on Rushmore

maybe a tastefully constructed representation of his ass mooning the American people on one side, and the words "in debt we trust" on the other with a rendering of Ronny carrying bags of money from the treasury. Hell, let's put a few social security receiving retirees chasing after him on the coin. I'm beginning to think the dime may have to become larger than its current size.

[hobbit709]

16. It's a private mint

They're not LEGAL tender.

[MoseyWalker]

21. yeah, but

they're pushing to "dump" the FDR dime and have it replaced.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. No way. What an abomination.

Since when is selling arms to the enemy something worth commemorating?

[liberal N proud]

18. An ode to Reaganomics - it cost you $10.00 for a dime

Make lots of sense to me but lots of cents from the idiots who will flock to buy them.

[SlipperySlope]

19. The website is bunk, the idea is real...

The website you link to is just another place trying to separate fools from their money. You can stamp whatever you like on a piece of metal, so long as you aren't making copies of real coins. This is just another worthless commemorative from a worthless mint.

However, the idea is real and does keep coming up. It hasn't really gotten much traction in Congress yet, and it isn't likely to.

One more factoid: if all goes according to plan there will indeed be a US coin minted in 2016 or so with Reagan on it. Starting in 2007 the US Mint is going to start a Presidential Dollar Coin series (similar to the current State Quarter series). Sacagawea will be off the dollar coin and four presidents a year will be commemorated. Reagan comes up in 2016 or so.

[brentspeak]

20. I think we should salute Ronald Reagan this way:

Thank you Ronald Reagan, for saddling this great country with a national debt that even our great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will be burdened with.

[MidwestTransplant]

23. Here's what's coming next

[Efilroft Sul]

26. Five heads full of rocks, that's for sure. N/T

[valerief]

27. Oh, the horror! I'd rather see Marilyn Monroe or Elvis there instead

of that human cyst.

[cureautismnow]

39. Yes, please do stick him up there...

...and never let him down!!!!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

24. Putting Reagan's...

... name or likeness on any object of stationary or enduring status is the final insult to injury. It is the GOP's way of saying "in your face with disgrace" for putting a man described by Stansfield Turner, as "stupid" into the White House.

"The more he was exposed to Reagan, the more Turner had come to doubt the man's basic thoughtfulness. He had described him privately as, "stupid." "
-- Bob Woodard, page 24 Veil (hardcover)

I was physically ill when they renamed National Airport (which i flew in and out of when in college) to that which I cannot repeat. It is "RR" something.

[fordnut]

29. Why do they think Reagan is so great

He just about starved me and my family out.He put $550.00 annual use tax on all trucks over 60,000 pounds a federal excise tax on new trucks,parts and tires putting most independents out of business and helping big companies like JB Hunt,Schneider,ect.and what really burns my butt is that no one will even acknowledge it.I HATE REAGAN just as much as both Bushes and Tricky Dicky Nixon!!!!!!

[rep the dems]

47. I probably hate him more than Nixon,

and definitely more than Bush senior, but I'm not so sure about W. They're tied for the worst president ever.

[trogdor]

31. It's just some boiler-room jackass trying to make a quick buck.

I've seen this commercial a whole bunch of times on G4TV while watching Star Trek. All they want to do is sell a bunch of freepers a fake coin that has maybe two bucks' worth of silver for $10.

As a matter of fact, they have a whole line of Reagan crapola that looks like US coinage. The 6-piece proof set sells for $99. As a matter of perspective, a silver proof set from the US Mint that includes all five 50-state quarters for that year costs $35.

I have one word for anyone who falls for this shit. STUPID.

[icymist]

32. Hey, maybe next we can have the Dumbya massage token.

All of Germany winces at that thought!

[Warpy]

33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt EARNED his place on that dime

by his support of the March of Dimes and of polio research during his lifetime!

What did fucking Reagan ever do except read speeches while his cronies stole us blind?

NO to putting that sack of shit on currency. NO to dishonoring Roosevelt. NO to forgetting what the March of Dimes was really all about.

And NO to sacks of shit who are too FUCKING IGNORANT to know any of this!

[Swede]

34. FDR started the march of dimes.

Reagan started the march of crimes.

[icymist]

36. LOL! Good one n/t

[fearthem]

35. ...because of their damaged egos, pride...it's a gift to them.

[GrantDem]

37. It's not the actually "legal tender" dime...

It's a replica.

[hyphenate]

38. this is an issue that's been around

for quite awhile. Nancy Reagan said no. And I'll bet there are enough others around to say no as well. Of course, when you have rabid, foaming at the mouth Raygun lovers out there, it's difficult to see how much they've puffed themselves up to look like there are more of them.

[icymist]

40. It's the first time I saw this idea/ad on televison and it made me mad!

We're getting the History Internation for a free viewing and I just happened to see this. I gots mad I tells ya....MAD!

[raysr]

41. RR should

have his name on every roll of toilet paper sold. The way he died was what he deserved.

[WI_DEM]

42. they better the hell not!

[chat_noir]

43. three dollar bill that has been "Georged"

[KansDem]

44. Get rid of the penny and put Reagan on the nickel...

...the plugged nickel,* that is.


*Plugged Nickel
This is US slang dating to 1888. Back when coins actually contained valuable metal, it was a counterfeiting practice to remove the silver or other valuable metal from the center of the coin and replace it with a plug of lead or other base metal. Hence, plugged nickel.

[elehhhhna]

45. Why not? The equivalent of a dime in Reagan's era is worth a dollar now.

[KatyaR]

46. You know, this is so damn stupid--

I don't give a whit who's on what currency, but no one talks about how much it costs to change the stuff--millions and millions of dollars THAT WE DON'T HAVE!

This whole thing with the state quarters and changing the bills is just crap. Our currency, which used to look so nice and the change felt so nice and heavy in your hand, now looks and feels like cheap crap from the dollar store.

WE CAN'T AFFORD THIS! BUY A CLUE!!! :rant: