Faces On Money

I've been watching this in the news lately with some confusion. Personally, I don't care who's on the money. I wish there were more women, but that's because I'm a disgusting, dirty old man. What I don't get is the idea that it's any particular person's "turn" to be on the money. If we were to use that as a basis, where the Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon money?

Before Kennedy was on the 50 cent piece it was Ben Franklin, a non-president who still adorns our C note. Susan B Anthony and Sacajawea managed to get on coins that were problematic (who wants a dollar the same size as a quarter). I'd rather see Chaka Khan on the 20 than Harriet Tubman, and what's the point of moving Jackson to the back of the bill?

But in the really grand scheme of things, how much longer will we even be using cash? What purpose does it really serve? The government owns it and for the time it can still be used for things that the government wouldn't approve. But some day soon we'll be buying our weed and groceries with digital dollars and the card we use can have anything on it, even our pet cat.

It's actually funny to see this issue gin up so much emotional shit. It's like having throngs of people protesting the closing of the last buggy whip shop. Paper and coin money are already old fashioned. Time to shed it and move on.

 

I read that Trump's analysis of the move is "pure political correctness" and I'm not exactly sure if he meant affirmative action or not. He suggests that a more appropriate move would be to place Tubman on a different denomination. He also said that if it were up to him he would love to have left Jackson on the 20. Weird.

Without agreeing with something Trump came up with; I thought the move was an inappropriate response to increases in racial tension. Maybe I will just have to get used to it.

 

I couldn't care less who is on the money because it's soon going to be worthless anyway. But Trump is actually right, it is about political correctness. More than that, it's something more for people to argue over to further the race agenda the system is behind.

The "increases in racial tension" is being ginned up by the system itself, namely the media.

 

I know the man is crude and ruthless, but the "Trumps is a racist" narrative was created by his political adversaries, not his actions. I don't care for Trump, but I really dislike the way lies take so much hold of Americans these days. If a lie "sounds good" people just run with it. So we find that the press rules our lives by simply taking words out of context. So far I have seen every candidate running use language that some could find "offensive". Just look at the horrible crap Hillary has gotten away with.

I liked Bernie for a while, but he too started to sound more senile than presidential. As for the money, I fail to see how the denomination has any bearing on the issue. If we really wanted Tubman to be popular, put her on the $1 bill. Nobody "deserves" a fixed position on government documents, which is what money is. However, Trump is partially right, this money issue is a foolish distraction for political reasons. It's designed to bolster the narrative that the US is a "white supremacist" nation when it is by far the most tolerant nation on earth. And the term "white supremacy" was something created by democrats for early 20th century campaigns. When they were more linked with the KKK.

The TV series Fringe touched on this when one of the team took a $20 bill to the alternate universe. The people who found it had no idea who Jackson was because their $20 was called a "Junior" and had MLK on it!

 

I dont understand why people would protest this, or care at all really.

I think its pretty cool. Harriett Tubman was a bit of a badass.

 

I voted for Harriet Tubman some years back
The only thing I use cash for is weed tho

 

You're right of course. She was also a strong gun rights advocate and fought for the right of women to vote. Harriet Tubman was also a republican, same as Frederick Douglass!

Maybe it's just a matter of how she is portrayed! http://www.thepicta.com/media/1232853305226944907_30818575

 

seen a glimpse on the news...i thought it was aunt jemima

 

Cash will always be around, though it will rarely be used.

I'd love to see both Jackson and Hamilton ditched from the paper money. Not a fan of either one. I'd rather see Teddy Roosevelt get on something, the President who started the National Park Service, one of the only federal agencies that almost everybody likes.

 

Teddy was a big hunter, so i don't want to see his face...FDR...yes, though....
It is always about the money, so...go for it. It will do you good....sarcasm here....
I must not be a total feminist, as i don't want to see any females on my bills.

 

Don't tell my teddy bears, since they're all named after him.

Hunting was totally accepted back then, but the concept of national parks, not so much.

 

I think it would be kind of cool. Means new crisp money has to be made. I know it's not actually new in value because we are in so much debt, but new in printing. I like getting new bills that aren't wrinkled, ripped, or written on. Though, I think writing on a bill is kind of a cute idea. I don't know. As long as it's fair I don't see the issue.

 

One of the few things that keeps it close to being "fair" is that we wait till someone is dead before they end up on our money. That way there's no personal bias in the selection process. That being the case, I'd like to see a Prince $99 bill!!!

The one thing that would be sobering though is realizing how much this will actually cost. Changing money isn't just about printing. On its face, it's a waste of money to make any changes at all beyond protection features for counterfeiting. So really, the person on the bill should be something that is purchased. The people who REALLY want it should be willing to pay for it. That should end all the whining.

 

Forget about who's face is on the money. I say we go back to making coins out of metal of real value like silver and copper, and turn bank notes into silver or gold promissory notes just like the good old days before it's too late.

And better yet, let's go back to Indian head coins and remove all political figures from money entirely.

 

I think you just want to see your face on it, don't you? Don't you?

 

Sooner or later the government will ban cash all together and just go with a digital one world currency only. This will make it easier to track all purchases made by every US citizen. So by the time Harriet Tubman gets put on a bank note, cash will already be phased out.

 

Me? Heck no. I have no such vanity. Marilyn Monroe would be nice. Or Muhammed Ali. Really though, Philo Farnsworth is the guy who really deserves it.

 

What am I nuts? We need Jimi Hendrix on a banknote. And Janis Joplin. Tupac Shakur and of course Marvin.

 

Cash, right now, serves as a way for people who don't have bank accounts to buy shit. Like young children, or people who somehow lost their ID, birth certificate, etc. Idk, there are a number of situations of why a person wouldn't have a bank account. But I suppose in the future, we'd all have numbers, and we wouldn't need to have all our ID shit and sign up for a bank account. Maybe the government will keep track of our digital money, and that will be all there is, and banks will only be used for loans and shit.

Anyway, the face on the money doesn't matter. Maybe the face is important, though, because it's complicated and makes it harder to counterfeit. Since it's a good idea to put the face on the money, we should probably pick the most influential people in our history.

Who that is, I don't know, I don't care enough to think about it.

 

maybe they should put bob marley on a bill.