There is now legislation to put Reagan on the $50. The $50 bill isn’t very popular — if you’re going to get large sums of money, you’ll get a bunch of $100 bills — but expect liberals to fight this as they don’t like being reminded how popular Reagan is and how popular they aren’t.
The current person on the bill is Grant, and he was probably drunk while posing for the portrait. And most people these days probably don’t even know who he is; he’s just some random beardo. Even if we don’t replace him with Reagan, there has to be some more popular choices to put on the $50. Like Mr. T, and then people would call it a “T-Bill” and that would be pretty cool.
Still, I’m for putting Reagan on the bill. Then liberal store owners will probably put up signs saying, “We don’t accept $50 bills.” And then I’ll be like, “But does your face accept my fist?” And then guess what I’ll do? That’s right; I’ll punch the the liberal in his dumb monkey face.
So, what do you think? Should we name stuff after Reagan, or should we just destroy as much government as we can and eat jelly beans in his honor?
Name stuff after him WHILE destroying government and eating jelly beans (only if they’re Jelly Belly though, ‘cuz they’re awesome!)
Can’t we do both?
They shouldn’t put Reagan’s face on the $50 bill. Instead, they should emboss his face on the front of a pair of brass knuckles so I can punch Reagan’s face into hippies’ faces.
Grant was a great general and a good president – he should stay.
We should put Reagan on the dime – get rid of that socialist FDR.
“Reagan” should become a verb. I Reagan, You Reagan, He/She/It Reagans.
“Reagan that Obamacare bill, stat!” would indicate the complete castration and nullification of a socialist piece of crap and it’s replacement with a fresh, conservative, springtime scent.
1. Load basket up with hundreds of dollars of goods.
2. Go to checkout.
3. Stare ostentatiously at sign saying “We don’t accept $50 bills.”
4. Announce, “Damn, all I have are 50’s!”
5. Leave basket of goods and walk out of establishment.
6. Rinse and repeat as necessary.
We should negotiate with the Democrats. If we can put Reagan on the $50 bill, they can put Obama on the $3 bill.
The $50? By the time numb nuts is done we will be wiping our asses with $50’s! Make a new $1,000,000.00 bill with Reagan’s picture! You will need it to fill up your car before you punch the store manager in the face!
This is a stupid argument. Of course they should put Reagan on the $50 bill. The only question is what they should put on the backside of the Reagan bill. Maybe they should print random sections of the constitution onto the back, so people can learn what it is. Actually, maybe we should do that with all American money. That way you will be able to spot a fake when a liberal tries to pay with a bill that has providing health care listed under the powers section.
They should put Reagan on the $50 bill and put Patton, Eisenhower, Nimitz, and Bradley on the backside. There is no excuse for not having Patton, Eisenhower, Nimitz, and Bradley on our currency.
I could care less about Grant. Most people agree he was a less-than-amazing President (though a pretty darn good general). Of course Reagan should be on the $50! I mean, what else? Cottage cheese?
Lets put Reagan on the Dollar coin and take Hillary off of it.
http://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog08/Susan.jpg
I was against it until someone mentioned the reaction by our fine, tolerant, hate-filled lefty compatriots.
That’ll be funny.
Absolutely right, Damncat. Putting Reagan on some coin or bill would be a good idea, but so would keeping Grant on the $50 bill.
MarkoMancuso –
Not Patton. What he did after the war came perilously close to collaborating with Nazis. An officer of lesser rank almost surely would have been court-martialed for it; he disobeyed direct orders.
Ya know, if it were a wimpy guy on the $50, like mebbe Jefferson, I would vote for stamping Reagan’s impression right over his.
Grant should be a man after our own hearts. He was a superb general who didn’t mind getting down and dirty and was not averse to hard campaigning. He had the confidence of will to send vast numbers of men into heated battle. He liked liquor and cigars, although I think his reputation as a boozer is overblown. If you don’t think he’s a great general, just remember that he won the war that was only Lee’s to lose.
He was swindled out of most of his money shortly before he died. Instead of leaving his wife penniless, he worked like a fiend to draft two volumes of his memoirs before he died. This biography went on sale after he died, and it provided for his widow.
Reagan deserves to be on a nice new 1/10 oz gold coin. Would be worth about $100 these days, and will continue to be worth that while we’re wiping our aforementioned arses with $100,000 Obama notes.
@Silicon Valley Jim: With all due respect, Patton did not venture close to collaborating with the Nazis. He did make it clear that we were relying on many Nazis to perform specific functions. He simply stated what was going on throughout the entire theatre, even in the eastern theatre.
If you’re in anyway basing this on the movie, don’t forget that Omar Bradley served as the chief consultant for that film. Bradley no doubt used that position to burnish his own image at Patton’s expense. The movie does not begin to do credit to Patton’s greatness as a general. He was the greatest Allied general of WWII.
I’m with Larry lets get some Reagan gold eagles going ASAP. I’d like the obverse to say “… the bombing begins in 10 minutes.”.
But it is more likely to be a picture of the Berlin wall.
I vote for Mr. T on the $50 bill. ” I Pity the fool that don’t accept them!”. Not wanting Mr.T on the $50 bill is RAAAAACIST!
Put Ronny on the $10 bill. Alexander Hamilton is the wrong answer to the BarRoom bet,” What president is on the $10 bill?”
Thank you, Burmashave, that’s similar to what I was going to say in response.
Crusty is right, put Obama on the front of the three dollar bill. Also, as a fitting tribute to the Carter administration I would recommend putting him on the backside of it. As far as the fifty dollar bill goes…well, as a married middle class taxpayer I’m not sure there is such a thing…I’ve never seen one although I’ve heard rumors of their actual existence. They say there are hundred dollar bills too.
Why does no one ever mention putting the spork on money? It is only the single greatest invention of mankind, besides maybe penicillin. Or naming a ship the U.S.S. Spork? Or at least carving its image into Rushmore. We could carve it entirely with sporks.
Grant was a decent man. Why not put Reagan on the twenty? I’m not a big fan of Andrew Jackson — from what I know of him the bad outweighs the good — and I doubt Old Hickory likes being on a federal reserve note anyway. I would also like to see FDR scrubbed from the dime, to be replaced with somebody more respectable. Maybe Nixon?
Or throw the Democrats a bone… put Truman on one side of the dime, and a nuclear weapon on the other. You know the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of having currency that reminds the world who’s boss.
Reagan has to be on the largest note except the 100 has the only guy worth a damn on it so it can’t be that. Thus I suggest bringing back the 1000 note.
Wait. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Hamilton aren’t worth a damn? Wow, you have a pretty odd standard for historical figures.
I propose we replace the Dollar with a new monetary unit: The REAGAN.
Currency shall revert to legal “Gold Reserve Notes.”
All legal coins will be gold or silver.
A picture of Reagan shall imprinted on all legal tender.
The Federal Reserve is bye-bye.
Not enough gold to go around but we should have money backed by Something with intrinsic value…
Bullets?
Kilowatt credits?
12 oz. bottles of spring water?
Coal?
Old Aquaman comic books?
How about we put Reagan’s name on the White House. That way the lefty media will always have to refer to the building as “The Reagan White House”, and even when we have a democrat President, it’ll be called “The Reagan White House.” It might even make Olberman have an aneurysm on live TV.
if the hippie store owners won’t take Reagan 50’s then they won’t get any other denominations of my money either.
I’m a New Yorker and I think Hamilton way over-rated. He died at 39 and was only Secretary of the Treasury in any case. Reagan on the $10; Hamilton on the $1 coin; see below. Realizing that unlikely, how about Reagan on the $1 coin? Sacagwea? S.B. Anthony? Lovely ladies, but not in Reagan’s league. Or Reagan on the $50, Grant on the $1 coin.
47-49 … Hamilton was 47-49; but he was only Secretary of the Treasury for 6 years.
I got it, we put Reagan on the $50 and a picture of the USS Reagan on the back, with the words, “The bombing starts in 10 minutes” inscribed beneath the ship. We then have the USS Reagan flanked by an Arleigh Burk (missile shoot down capable) on one side, and an Ohio Class submarine on the other, so everyone remembers just what we are capable of doing.
I’d replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 with Ronnie-that pic of Jackson looks too much like Peter Gammons.
To add to marvins idea, we put a cryptic number on the bill that equals the number of hours we were at war with Granada. We don’t say anything about it unless someone asks what it means.
With all due respect, Patton did not venture close to collaborating with the Nazis. He did make it clear that we were relying on many Nazis to perform specific functions. He simply stated what was going on throughout the entire theatre, even in the eastern theatre.
If you’re in anyway basing this on the movie, don’t forget that Omar Bradley served as the chief consultant for that film.
I’ve never seen the movie. I’m basing my assertion on a biography of Patton and a biography of Eisenhower. Patton was given orders to remove all Nazis from their positions. He did more than object to the orders. He failed to comply with them, even when Eisenhower repeated them. He also went hunting with a former German officer who had been a member of the Nazi party. You can find confirmation of all these things by typing “Patton denazification” into Google. I’m aware that not everything on the web is true, but, given a day or two, I can find support in books written by reputable historians.
my thought is this. Take Washington off the quarter and put reagan there. This isn’t meant to put down Washington. But washington has the dollar, so we are just saying the guy isn’t going to double dip anymore. i suppose you could do the same with the penny, but i wanted reagan to get a good sized portrait out of it.
and as for the penny, i would take off lincoln and put in Martin Luther King. maybe do both at the same time. put it in a bill that gives us both.
how the hell susan b. anthony or that sacaw… um, that indian chick, got on our money before Dr. King is inexplicable.
Actually as i wrote this i found this site showing us all the paper currency and who is on it. so i have a better place for Reagan. the $1,000 bill. i mean seriously, they put Grover Cleveland on that thing? get him the f— out of there. and the rest of the big denominations are hard to justify. i mean madison is okay, but wilson? Salmon Chase? really?
http://www.marshu.com/articles/presidents-on-us-united-states-paper-bills-currency.php
To the people saying Obama should be on the $3 bill, he already is: http://www.slick.com/obama_3_dollar_bill.asp
I have a One Trillion Dollar bill with Obama’s picture on it. Obviously, it’s worthless, since even a trillion dollars is just a drop in the bucket in Obamaland.
Yes.
I don’t really have anything to say…I just thought I’d like to see this thread have an even forty hits.