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    A Small TurnipColette Shade
    10/16/15 12:55pm

    I just want Andrew Fucking Jackson off the twenny. I mean, I know, genocidal psychos need representation too, but seriously, fuck that dude.

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      cisum88noteA Small Turnip
      10/16/15 1:18pm

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/editoria...

      Alexandra Petri’s got you covered.

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      A Small Turnipcisum88note
      10/16/15 1:26pm

      Nice. You knew I’d like that. And I really don’t want them to take Alexander Hamilton off the ten, because the fact that there’s a hardscrabble abolitionist immigrant on the tenner is right and good and just. Immigrants get the job done, man. Money should recognize.

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    mekkiColette Shade
    10/16/15 1:08pm

    Okay, I propose some rules to the potential women on the money;

    1. They must be American or tied to American history. (Sorry, Mother Theresa.)

    2. They must be tied somewhat to politics. (We’ve kept this rule up to this point. I’d like to keep it up.) So, for example people who work for women/human rights are in. People who were writers, artists and scientists are out UNLESS their works can be tied back to politics.

    So, no on Grandma Moses. Yes on Eleanor Roosevelt.

    That’s it. Just two rules. Everything else goes.

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      Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snarkmekki
      10/16/15 1:15pm

      I dunno, I’m not sure I like the politics rule.

      I’d rather that our money celebrate great achievements in general than simply politics. Great scientists, great literature, great art. I’d rather have Mark Twain than any 20th century president, frankly.

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      MariaClaraSisamekki
      10/16/15 1:20pm

      These are already more or less the general rules for countries who put people on money (with a modification on #2: writers, artists, and scientists whose works exemplified a culture or made it more prominent are sometimes included). I don’t understand why it’s hard to come up with a shortlist in the US. Oh wait, probably because they have to choose a woman. /s

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    Woundup_PenguinColette Shade
    10/16/15 12:54pm

    New Zealand has another woman on their money - suffragette Kate Sheppard is on the $10 note. Compared to all the old white male politicians on Canadian and US money I’m pretty happy with the NZ notes:
    $5 = explorer/mountaineer/humanitarian Edmund Hillary
    $10 = suffragette Kate Sheppard
    $20 = Queen Elizabeth (meh - you are the weakest link)
    $50 = prominent Maori lawyer and politician Apirana Ngata
    $100 = scientest and nobel prize winner Ernest Rutherford

    And on the other side of the notes are native birds.

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      The Otters Knew Alex Was Still AroundWoundup_Penguin
      10/16/15 1:09pm

      I love that there are birds on the other side. I kept my NZ$5 when I came home because of the penguins.

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      UnwholesomeWoundup_Penguin
      10/16/15 2:07pm

      I agree totally, but you can’t deny having Spock on the five is sorta awesome.

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    anacanapanaColette Shade
    10/16/15 12:44pm

    “Hey, we gave you women Martha Washington in 1886. It’s like there’s no pleasing you broads.”

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      DennisReynoldsGoldenGodanacanapana
      10/16/15 12:52pm

      Talk about needy.

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      Gemmabetaanacanapana
      10/16/15 12:53pm

      And in 1896, although the bills got banned in Boston because of boob.

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    The Otters Knew Alex Was Still AroundColette Shade
    10/16/15 12:42pm

    currently, $1 billion in unused dollar coins is languishing in storage

    They’re also in a series of Crown Royal bags at my boyfriend’s house. We just rolled $400 in quarters alone last week.

    As for who to put on it, I’m not really sure. I’m still pretty disappointed that they decided to redesign the ten and not the twenty. Are they still planning to have it be a shared thing, with Hamilton on one side and the woman of choice on the other?

    (I also like the idea of phasing out people — or if not phasing them out, maybe issuing special editions, like with the bicentennial quarters, etc., with non-people on there. Why not national parks or something? Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, Grand Canyon, Acadia. And then we can put Ken Burns on the other side. (Kidding.) (Kind of.))

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      John BoehnerThe Otters Knew Alex Was Still Around
      10/16/15 1:12pm

      So off topic but!!! A bunch of jingles in a CR bag—- this is a sign of someone who works in the service industry.

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      The Otters Knew Alex Was Still AroundJohn Boehner
      10/16/15 1:17pm

      Well he is a chef, but he just pays for everything in cash always (not tips naturally; he just goes to the bank and gets cash regularly), and then all the change in his pockets goes into the bags at the end of the day.

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    HarvestMoonColette Shade
    10/16/15 1:34pm

    “During the Republican debate, Carly Fiorina refused to answer moderator Jake Tapper’s question, arguing that putting a woman on the $10 was a “meaningless gesture.” I agreed with her, for once.

    I might have agreed with you...until the morning my young daughter went through my wallet and asked me, “Where is the money with the ladies on it?”

    She learned something about her gender in that very moment. She learned that just because she’s a female she’s less important. We grown-up ladies already know that, so are used to it, but seeing her make that realization in that instant? Man, it was terribly sad.

    Every statue, every school, every playing field, every piece of currency honors men. No matter how much you say “girl power”, little girls see their 2nd class citizenship clearly. So yes, it matters.

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      QellaqanHarvestMoon
      10/16/15 1:58pm

      Yea, I thought that was a rather lame comment by the author as well. Does putting ladies on a bill fix millennia of inequality? Duh, of course not. Is it a good thing? YES! And then the hand-wringing about tokenism or erasure. If we want our money to bear the images of people, ANYTHING would be better than our current array in terms of representation. It can’t get worse.

      Secondly, the author mentions how Norway doesn’t use real people at all, which I agree is a nice idea... that the US implemented itself until around 1900 (on coins, not as well-versed with bills). Look at old US currency. It has Standing Liberty, Seated Liberty, Walking Liberty, buffaloes, indians...depictions of people (usually pretty symbolic ladies) but no actual people.

      This article made me shake my head.

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      HarvestMoonQellaqan
      10/16/15 2:10pm

      I much prefer people-free currency!

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    memorykid9Colette Shade
    10/16/15 12:37pm

    The silliness of the questions political candidates get asked, and the putrid, pus-filled abyss of stupidity that often characterizes their answers made me think for a second that Chris Christie wanted THIS family on his currency.

    GIF
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      Rihanna is the one truememorykid9
      10/16/15 2:33pm

      Down.

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      Want a Taste of Religion? Lick a Witchmemorykid9
      10/18/15 7:45pm

      I would be ok with that. Maybe we should make money like stamps lol

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    FabulusssColette Shade
    10/16/15 1:07pm

    I proudly show any one, and everyone foreign to Chile that our 5 thousand peso bill has Gabriela Mistral on it. Nobel winning poet. She was also a lesbian. :)

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      DennisReynoldsGoldenGodColette Shade
      10/16/15 12:37pm

      I vote Mary Ludwig Hayes McCauley AKA Molly Pitcher. Ideally with some version of this picture.

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        thatsslightlyravenDennisReynoldsGoldenGod
        10/16/15 1:51pm

        How about some love for Deborah Sampson? Spent her childhood as an indentured servant after her mother was widowed and couldn’t afford to keep 7 kids in the house. At 20, she enlisted in the Continental Army, disguised as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War. Served as a scout throughout the Revolution and was at the siege of Yorktown. She was injured in hand to hand combat, cut in the head with a sword and shot in the thigh. She was able to hid her thigh wound and treated it herself so no one would know she was a woman. She was then assigned to serve General Patterson as his waiter, but she eventually got sick from an illness going around camp. She passed out and the doctor discovered that she was a woman. She then became the first woman to receive an honorable discharge from the armed forces.

        She married, had a few kids and was the first woman in the US to go on an official lecture tour about any subject. After she died, her husband petitioned to receive pay as the spouse of a solider, which he was granted (even through they weren’t married when she served) because the review committee found that history “furnished no other similar example of female heroism, fidelity and courage”.

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      GrumpyEagleColette Shade
      10/16/15 12:44pm

      Not exactly right - over the past couple hundred years, Pocahantas and Martha Washington have appeared on US currency, and various kickass versions of "Lady Liberty", sometimes bare-breasted and often treading on something or other, have been used on both paper and coinage.

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        The Otters Knew Alex Was Still AroundGrumpyEagle
        10/16/15 12:51pm

        I’m all right with bringing back Lady Liberty.

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        mazzieDThe Otters Knew Alex Was Still Around
        10/16/15 1:52pm

        I’m not, there are plenty of real historic women to celebrate.

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