Putting Ronald Reagan On Our Fifty Dollar Bills

There is a proposal in the House of Representatives to take Ullysses S. Grant off the fifty-dollar bill and replace it with Ronald Reagan. As one might expect in this hate filled, angry and demented society of ours, some have a problem with that and for various reasons. I read on the Daily Kos where somebody stated that putting Reagan on a fifty was no different than Slobodan Milosevic. Such intelligent thought. I suppose that the same person who wrote this doesn’t take issue with the twenty-dollar bill having Andrew Jackson’s picture on it. Andrew Jackson was a staunch democrat and was well noted from defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans. But as democratic tradition had it in those days, Jackson was a firm supporter of slavery and was responsible for the destruction and migration of all Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. He demand that all Indians be moved west and put on reservations. Slobodan who?

As much as I admired Ronald Reagan and consider him to be one of our finest presidents, I would not advocate having his face put on any paper money denomination. If we feel it necessary to change up the faces, then I might suggest we head in the opposite direction from putting more recent dignitaries on bills to those of past history.

Being that history really isn’t taught any longer in our schools, this might be an opportunity to place some of our other founding fathers – Jefferson, Madison, Adams, etc.. We do have pictures of men who were not presidents – Hamilton ($10.00) and Franklin ($100.00).

Or maybe we could remove all pictures and begin a series of placing the Bill of Rights beginning with the First Amendment.