Should Jackson lose his place of honor?

[oldr_n_wsr]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[BoSoxGal]

And why do we have to have pictures of people on it anyway?

I was thinking the same thing.
Nature in all its glory and even some of it's wrath (hurricanes, tornados, etc) would be my choice.

I agree, but then we'd have to convince the people to give up the monotonous green tones and put some color on our currency, too!

[Sue U]

Sue

Franklin was a notorious womanizer.

From everything I have read and seen about him -- and remember, the parfum de Franklin fairly permeates the Philadelphia region -- that is simply not true. While Ben Franklin was obviously charming, witty and flirtatious, he was not actually a womanizer; that was an insinuation/smear made by John Adams, who did not get on well with Franklin when the two were in France. Adams was a self-righteous moralizer who had something of a stick up his ass. Franklin, in addition to being a certifiable genius and bon vivant, was an advocate for the rights and equal treatment of women. And remember, Franklin was in his 70s when he went to Paris.

[wesw]

he neglected to re pay a debt in his younger years....

[Joe Guy]

Then maybe they should put his face on an IOU.

[Sue U]

Then maybe they should put his face on an IOU.

That's pretty much what paper money is.

[Big RR]

I was thinking the same thing.

[rubato]

Franklin was a womanizer but only in the very best sense of the word. He acknowledged his bastards and brought them with him to further their education, lives and careers. He liked the company of women, and sex, and had a very healthy attitude to both. A thoroughly modern man.


yrs,
rubato

[oldr_n_wsr]

A thoroughly modern man.

Except he didn't bathe regularly (unless one counts "airbaths").

[Scooter]

A few more important questions would be: why are you still using $1 paper bills rather than coins, why carry twice as many bills as you need by refusing to use $2 bills, and why are you still using pennies at all?

[Big RR]

I can't say anything about $2 bills but most of us don't like to carry change at all, especially in this world we frequently have to pass through metal detectors and need to empty our pockets.

[Crackpot]

Personally I like loonies and twonies you just hVe to. Get used to having them.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Every time they try a one dollar coin it is not met with great success. The only way to guarantee $1 coinusage would be to remove all $1 bills from circulation.
$2 bills never took off either. Don't know why.

[Gob]

Works here...



and in the UK

[Lord Jim]

why are you still using $1 paper bills rather than coins,

Because we live in a democracy, and the American People have made it quite clear that they have no interest in having the dollar bill replaced by some funny money coin...

This "New Coke" effort has been made repeatedly, for four decades and repeatedly rejected; we just don't want it...

You want to try to force this country to accept dollar coins?

I have a suggestion as to where you can shove them...

ETA:

It's like "the metric system" ...

It's not on, we want no part of it...

[Guinevere]

It's so much easier to use €1 and €2 coins, with the smallest bill being €5. I wish we would get with the program.

[wesw]

I m with jim on this one.

at least the eisenhower dollar was big and shiney. we like big and shiney

[Lord Jim]

It's so much easier to use €1 and €2 coins, with the smallest bill being €5. I wish we would get with the program.

Well that's just peachy Guin, if you want to use dollar coins, go right ahead and use them; it's not like they don't exist, help yourself...

Just don't try to force any of the rest of us to use them...

[Lord Jim]

why are you still using pennies at all?

Now that's a different subject...

I've been arguing for many years that we should get rid of the penny, (or as I affectionately refer to it, "the infernal zinc slug")

Unlike paper dollars, nobody wants pennies...even street people won't take them...

They have almost completely fallen out of use as a medium of currency; even chain stores like the 7-11 have a little penny bowl available; and I've noticed that now in many stores if you pay with cash and don't have the penny amount for the bill, they simply round it down and don't charge you the extra two or three cents... (I guess studies have probably been done showing that the cost in lost time having cashiers mess with those worthless pennies is greater than the money brought in by the worthless pennies...)

But at the very least, if we're not going to get rid of the penny, let's at least stop insulting Abraham Lincoln by having his picture on it...

Let's replace Lincoln with a President who's value to the country more accurately reflects the value of the coin....

I have the perfect choice:







That would be particularly appropriate, since his Presidency had so much to do with reducing the value of the penny...

Maybe I'll start a "Let's Put Jimmy Carter On The Penny" campaign...

[wesw]

uh, jim? you do know that those guys who round it down are fudging the books anyway, right?