Wow, you look like ten bucks!

Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, of the United States announced that a woman will be featured on the $10 bill that is being redesigned. It will be put into circulation in 2020, which happens to be the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, giving US women the right to vote. Lew indicated he would be taking input of ideas of which woman should receive that honor. I think the only requirement for the portrait selection, is that the featured woman has to be dead.

Focus: Vote for who you think it should be, and tell why.

 

Has to be Susan B Anthony, they fucked her the first time by giving her that shitty coin, nice job white old dudes, a woman who did a lot to give women an equal voice in society is honored by putting her on a coin that no one uses.

 

So, they're launching this in honor of the anniversary of women's voting rights, yet still debating whether the woman responsible for that movement should get the honor?

How is this a debate? Tubman on the $20, Anthony on the $10, Jenna Jameson on the $1. Or maybe Elanor Roosevelt on the $1 so strippers everywhere will have a thong full of Elanor rubbing up on their vaginas. Dirty old minx probably fucked like a champ.

 

If we're going presidential, the closest we've had to a female President is Edith Wilson, who basically ran things after her husband Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in 1919 until his term was up in 1921. Maybe her?

Eleanor Roosevelt isn't a bad choice either, as she was way more of an advocate and politically active than most First Ladies to that point. Shit, she was Hilary Clinton before Hilary Clinton, advocating for women's rights and civil rights. She famously sat with the black delegates at a conference in Alabama, before she was told to move due to strict segregation laws. She then sat in the middle of the room so as not to sit with either side.

But my vote (pun intended) still goes to Susan B. Anthony for the women's suffridge movement, during an era when womens rights were completely laughable. How laughable? When the Civil Rights Act was passed, the amendment that guaranteed right to discrimination based on "sex" or gender was put in as a joke to prevent it from passing. That was in 1964, 44 years AFTER women gained the right to vote, and after women had made tremendous progress. Imagine back in the late mid to late 1800s when she was most active (she died in 1906, so she never saw full women's suffridge).

Now I'm gonna go back to reading my APUSH book and prepping for the next school year.

PS: If a vote goes public, I would be shocked if Caitlin Jenner didn't end up a winner. Dudes would like it because she is "really a man" and women would like it because she is "really a woman," while the LGBT community would embrace it, while Fox News decries it as the end of days.

 

I think it's actually just coincidence that it falls on the anniversary. But, I think Susan B. should get the honor.

Joke's on you, though. Congress passed a law in 2001 or something that says we can't change to $1 bill. Well, Treasury Secretary can't, anyway.

I'm also fine with shooting everyone on that show.

 

This whole thing is some bullshit. Hamilton is to the American Treasury what Franklin is to fucking syphilitic French women. No one deserves to be on US Currency more. Meanwhile we've got a genocidal son of a bitch who hated the central bank on the $20, but he gets to stay? Codswallop and poppycock!

I think they're delaying until 2020 because they have their fingers crossed that Sandra Day O'Connor is going to kick the bucket before then. I really don't see any other woman coming close (especially when you realize that guys like Eisenhower and Adams aren't aren't any of the paper currency).

 

Man, I hope you were pulling off your gloves defiantly as you said that last part. Maybe they'll compromise and leave Hamilton where he is, and introduce a new $11 bill for the selected woman. If they did, I would pay cash more often when I bought lunch, because it would be worth watching the mental gymnastics of the cashier trying to make change.

I'm assuming s/he'll be on the $3 bill, tho right?

 

Eisenhower and Adams? Those are your pulls? I'd go with either Roosevelt before those two.

 

Teddy maybe. I don't think FDR will ever be on paper currency, because bankers hold long grudges. Even dead ones. Or, when you said "either" did you mean Eleanor and Teddy?

 

Nah, I was saying FDR or Teddy. FDR led us through the Great Depression and most of WWII. I know he's controversial, especially amongst the "big government is bad" groups, but you can't deny his popularilty in his time or his impact on changing the nation and forming it into what it became in the 20th century.

Teddy is just fucking Teddy Roosevelt. I want a picture of him riding a moose and shooting death in the face with a shotgun on my new $10.

 

Last month, my daughter had to do a presentation at school and dress up as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. So I'm going with her.

 

Well, she's got the hair for it.

 

What about Dolley Madison? Decorated the White House, saved George's picture when those limeys burned that same building down in 1814, and she makes a helluva good ice cream.

 

Official Treasury announcement: https://www.thenew10.treasury.gov/

And, you can share your ideas here: https://www.thenew10.treasury.gov/share-your-ideas

Interesting comments there. Sally Ride and Amelia Earhart are certainly notable women. But, since it's supposed to also be about democracy, I don't see how it won't be Susan B or Harriett Tubman.

 

Wait, if we're going to introduce a new bill to celebrate women instead of putting them on the $10, shouldn't it be a $7 bill?

 

I don't know they'll put on, I can't really decide who deserves it the most, I just know taking Hamilton off the ten is just about as stupid as it gets. He is practically the architect of Western life. Jackson sucks, dump him instead.