20 thoughts on “The Most Radical $10 Bill Candidate”
I’m figuring the usual gang of idiots would dogpile with “She admired a serial killer!” This from the crowd that wears Che t-shirts, has had Mao posters in their apartments, and used to apologize for whatever mass murderer headed the Soviet Union at any given time.
My idea is that we all get behind Katharine (born Catherine) Mary Drexel.
Here is a woman who devoted her life to social justice, in a serious way and not the superficial manner this term has come to mean in our generation. Given the circumstances of her birth into a wealthy family associated with finance, and given the circumstances of her life and fortune directed in the service of the disadvantaged, I think it to be perfect to put her portrait on our money.
That is why I say we should get behind this, to challenge the people involved whether their professed belief in social causes would bring them to even consider this or whether their prejudice would have them ignore our proposal or dismiss it out-of-hand.
I argue that Katharine Drexel is someone that Conservatives and Libertarians can endorse, because her service was a matter of personal conviction regarding what she wanted to do with her money and her life rather than the government forcing some people to do what other people deem to be virtuous. That, and her religious affiliation supporting her life choice is why her candidacy many never be considered by the correct people, which is even more reason to unite behind her consideration.
Lady Liberty. She’s definitely a minority, being the only Cupric-American. She’s instantly recognizable worldwide. The Chinese protestors made a model of her in Tienanmen Square in 1989. No other woman in American history comes close to that kind of symbolism.
Didn’t we have Liberty on coins of various denominations?
I think the proposal is to place a historical person on our money than a mythological person representing an ideal or a virtue.
There was a semester when a Classics scholar specializing in the Helenistic Period was enrolled in my Electrical Circuits class. This neatly bearded, balding man with a serious affect looked like a college professor played by a character actor in old movies, and I was wondering who in higher administration was observing my classroom without telling me about it before hand.
He was struggling with an engineering concept that I thought to be obvious, and I asked him “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb”, which has the answer “Grant.” This student corrects me, “No one is buried in Grant’s tomb if he is interred in a tomb (above ground) instead of a grave (below ground).” I guess that is an important distinction for the 2nd Century BCE.
I got to asking him about Grant, mentioning that I had taken AP History from a highly opinionated teacher bent on indoctrinating his charges. This teacher was highly critical of President Grant as being incompetent and enabling corruption.
The response was, ‘Yes, that line emerged during the time of Woodrow Wilson as part of an effort to rewrite history regarding Reconstruction and to justify Segregation. At that time, Grant was the last president to champion Civil Rights, and rating him as a bad president was all part of this. There is a strong justification for honoring Grant on the 50-dollar bill.”
I learned something every day, that the obnoxiously liberal high school teacher who was pivotal in my formation as a Conservative turned out to be a closet racist. So whatever happens, people, stand your ground on Grant being on the $50 bill.
Get rid of the ten and the fifty. 1-5-20-100 would do the job fine.
That could happen. The Susan Anthony and Sacagawea coins never caught on. The public could just get passive aggressive on this matter too.
See me above comment on why we should keep the fifty.
Put Grant on a $500 bill and get rid of the fifty. Nobody likes handling a fifty.
I know some are trying to get rid of the hundred; adding a five hundred is the appropriate push back.
McKinley was on the $500 USD, and they got rid of it, around the same time they removed Hamilton from the $1000 USD to be replace by Democrat Grover Cleveland.
That’s definitely where we’re going. If you get cash back from the self-serv checkout at my supermarket, it only dispenses $1s, 5s and 20s. Since that’s about the only way I get cash nowadays, I haven’t seen a $10 bill in a long time.
Whoever it is they pick, it will be a white woman. That keeps open a reason to change the $20 bill, too.
The $1 coins never caught on precisely because there was still a $1 bill.
Eliminate the one dollar bill. And the penny, the nickel, and threaten to eliminate the dime. That leaves the quarter, the half-dollar, and the dollar coin. Consider adding a two dollar coin.
The smallest denomination in circulation should be worth bothering to pick up off the street. It should be at least vaguely plausible to buy something with one. And you should get something other than a glare for a fistful of them.
If you go to all that trouble, then be honest about how the dollar has inflated and revalue the dollar entirely, 10 or 20 to one. Then you could put some real silver back in the coins. ATMs would then dispense 1 dollar bills, and 1 cent would be useful (penny candy, anyone?).
No, the $1 coins failed because they were ugly, cumbersome, and solved a problem that didn’t exist. It’d be far more efficient to eliminate all coinage besides the quarter, which is all anyone uses anyway.
The $1 coin didn’t catch on because it was too close to the size of a quarter. Make it a stackable poker chip and it would catch on fine.
How about Neil Armstrong, or, better yet, the Eagle?
I’m good with the eagle or other non-political device. We can remove Washington, Lincoln, and the lot to be replaced with eagles, federal buildings, and landmarks. But I do fear if we went down that road, progressives would think about items that suggest our strength in labor like a hammer or maybe an agricultural item.
Put kale on the 10-dollar bill!
If United flight 93 had gone differently on 9/11, we’d go with Heather Penney, who took off in her F-16 to protect the capitol without cannon ammunition or missiles, with the intention of downing the hijacked airliner by ramming it. She did not expect to survive.
The only other women I could think would belong on our currency are Margaret Thatcher and Betty Paige. Betty Paige because she makes anything look good, pretty much established the modern female image, and unlike almost all other nominees didn’t become famous just for bitching and whining about something.
I don’t want an “activist” on the currency, I want someone who did something.
George, thank you so much for that link. Wow! She was impressive. I just could not help but think how unworthy of her these clowns in Washington are of such a hero (and why hero should not be thrown about as loosely as it is these days.)
Put her face on a new $9.11 bill! It would never get spent, but that’s ok.
You know “they” won’t accept anyone but a woman and an “activist.”
That is why in the best Alinksyist tradition, I am lobbying for Katharine Drexel. Have them abide by their own convictions.
I’m figuring the usual gang of idiots would dogpile with “She admired a serial killer!” This from the crowd that wears Che t-shirts, has had Mao posters in their apartments, and used to apologize for whatever mass murderer headed the Soviet Union at any given time.
My idea is that we all get behind Katharine (born Catherine) Mary Drexel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Drexel
Here is a woman who devoted her life to social justice, in a serious way and not the superficial manner this term has come to mean in our generation. Given the circumstances of her birth into a wealthy family associated with finance, and given the circumstances of her life and fortune directed in the service of the disadvantaged, I think it to be perfect to put her portrait on our money.
That is why I say we should get behind this, to challenge the people involved whether their professed belief in social causes would bring them to even consider this or whether their prejudice would have them ignore our proposal or dismiss it out-of-hand.
I argue that Katharine Drexel is someone that Conservatives and Libertarians can endorse, because her service was a matter of personal conviction regarding what she wanted to do with her money and her life rather than the government forcing some people to do what other people deem to be virtuous. That, and her religious affiliation supporting her life choice is why her candidacy many never be considered by the correct people, which is even more reason to unite behind her consideration.
Lady Liberty. She’s definitely a minority, being the only Cupric-American. She’s instantly recognizable worldwide. The Chinese protestors made a model of her in Tienanmen Square in 1989. No other woman in American history comes close to that kind of symbolism.
Didn’t we have Liberty on coins of various denominations?
I think the proposal is to place a historical person on our money than a mythological person representing an ideal or a virtue.
There was a semester when a Classics scholar specializing in the Helenistic Period was enrolled in my Electrical Circuits class. This neatly bearded, balding man with a serious affect looked like a college professor played by a character actor in old movies, and I was wondering who in higher administration was observing my classroom without telling me about it before hand.
He was struggling with an engineering concept that I thought to be obvious, and I asked him “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb”, which has the answer “Grant.” This student corrects me, “No one is buried in Grant’s tomb if he is interred in a tomb (above ground) instead of a grave (below ground).” I guess that is an important distinction for the 2nd Century BCE.
I got to asking him about Grant, mentioning that I had taken AP History from a highly opinionated teacher bent on indoctrinating his charges. This teacher was highly critical of President Grant as being incompetent and enabling corruption.
The response was, ‘Yes, that line emerged during the time of Woodrow Wilson as part of an effort to rewrite history regarding Reconstruction and to justify Segregation. At that time, Grant was the last president to champion Civil Rights, and rating him as a bad president was all part of this. There is a strong justification for honoring Grant on the 50-dollar bill.”
I learned something every day, that the obnoxiously liberal high school teacher who was pivotal in my formation as a Conservative turned out to be a closet racist. So whatever happens, people, stand your ground on Grant being on the $50 bill.
Get rid of the ten and the fifty. 1-5-20-100 would do the job fine.
That could happen. The Susan Anthony and Sacagawea coins never caught on. The public could just get passive aggressive on this matter too.
See me above comment on why we should keep the fifty.
Put Grant on a $500 bill and get rid of the fifty. Nobody likes handling a fifty.
I know some are trying to get rid of the hundred; adding a five hundred is the appropriate push back.
McKinley was on the $500 USD, and they got rid of it, around the same time they removed Hamilton from the $1000 USD to be replace by Democrat Grover Cleveland.
That’s definitely where we’re going. If you get cash back from the self-serv checkout at my supermarket, it only dispenses $1s, 5s and 20s. Since that’s about the only way I get cash nowadays, I haven’t seen a $10 bill in a long time.
Whoever it is they pick, it will be a white woman. That keeps open a reason to change the $20 bill, too.
The $1 coins never caught on precisely because there was still a $1 bill.
Eliminate the one dollar bill. And the penny, the nickel, and threaten to eliminate the dime. That leaves the quarter, the half-dollar, and the dollar coin. Consider adding a two dollar coin.
The smallest denomination in circulation should be worth bothering to pick up off the street. It should be at least vaguely plausible to buy something with one. And you should get something other than a glare for a fistful of them.
If you go to all that trouble, then be honest about how the dollar has inflated and revalue the dollar entirely, 10 or 20 to one. Then you could put some real silver back in the coins. ATMs would then dispense 1 dollar bills, and 1 cent would be useful (penny candy, anyone?).
No, the $1 coins failed because they were ugly, cumbersome, and solved a problem that didn’t exist. It’d be far more efficient to eliminate all coinage besides the quarter, which is all anyone uses anyway.
The $1 coin didn’t catch on because it was too close to the size of a quarter. Make it a stackable poker chip and it would catch on fine.
How about Neil Armstrong, or, better yet, the Eagle?
I’m good with the eagle or other non-political device. We can remove Washington, Lincoln, and the lot to be replaced with eagles, federal buildings, and landmarks. But I do fear if we went down that road, progressives would think about items that suggest our strength in labor like a hammer or maybe an agricultural item.
Put kale on the 10-dollar bill!
If United flight 93 had gone differently on 9/11, we’d go with Heather Penney, who took off in her F-16 to protect the capitol without cannon ammunition or missiles, with the intention of downing the hijacked airliner by ramming it. She did not expect to survive.
There’s a great hour long CSPAN interview of her.
The only other women I could think would belong on our currency are Margaret Thatcher and Betty Paige. Betty Paige because she makes anything look good, pretty much established the modern female image, and unlike almost all other nominees didn’t become famous just for bitching and whining about something.
I don’t want an “activist” on the currency, I want someone who did something.
George, thank you so much for that link. Wow! She was impressive. I just could not help but think how unworthy of her these clowns in Washington are of such a hero (and why hero should not be thrown about as loosely as it is these days.)
Put her face on a new $9.11 bill! It would never get spent, but that’s ok.
You know “they” won’t accept anyone but a woman and an “activist.”
That is why in the best Alinksyist tradition, I am lobbying for Katharine Drexel. Have them abide by their own convictions.