It doesn't really. Just be another one of those "statement ' things which doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Most everyone understands these days that Jackson was a prick but that doesn't matter either.Well with the US debt nearing 17 Trillion, and Obama printing money.. what does it really matter.
Group pushing to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 with Harriet Tubman
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I had never heard of Harriet Tubman until now. Having just spent a bit of time reading up on her, I believe that she is someone who deserves more recognition. Putting her on the $20 bill would be a small, but effective way to challenge both sexism and racism in America. Canada should consider something similar.
I said Susan B. Anthony because she's the most famous of the suffragettes. For racism, gotta go with Martin Luther King.
By the way, add Thomas Edison to my list. And Albert Einstein.
Including common coins, you'd need to come up with 10 heroic presidents. GOOD LUCK. There are two non-presidents on US banknotes, so they probably tapped out of heroic presidents early on.
I will translate gopher-to-English: The government issued a ONE-dollar coin with the picture of Susan B. Anthony on it. That same coin remains on the market and continues to be issued, and has been issued with pictures of various American Indian concepts and Presidents on it.
But what should we use while we're waiting for an heroic President?
And we had Presidents who were bona fide heroes before they became President. But hero Presidents? Can't think of one. Closest we ever came that I can think of is George H.W. Bush, who when raising taxes, actually admitted that he had run on a promise of "Read my lips. No new taxes!" and stated that the budget and economy would not allow him to keep that promise. It cost him re-election.
Truthful, admirably so. But hardly heroic.
How about Nixon? He very heroically resigned in the face of his criminal activity. I can live with that, although I'm not American. When I visit I'll gladly pay with Nixons and HW Bushes.
Allow me to add: I was wrong about this. The Susan B. Anthony dollar was unpopular because it was too close in size and color to a quarter. The new dollar coin is gold (color, not metal) and thicker, to make it distinguishable from the quarter.
Was he President at the time? No he was not. So I'll repeat for the reading-comp challenged, "And we had Presidents who were bona fide heroes before they became President."
For that matter, George H.W. did a pretty decent job of heroing before he became President. In WWII, to be exact.
Andrew Jackson sure spent an inordinate amount of his career trying to eliminate various native nations.
He used to get pretty upset because, you know, those Seminole ...
pissed him
RIGHT OFF!!
