I have often thought Betsy Ross deserved the ten dollar bill feature
photo slot and Alexander Hamilton should be moved to the label of a bottle of
Jamaican rum. Fed Chef Yelin is giving Hammy what he deserves. Real power
has its privileges.
All of the Feds
bills have feature individuals that founded the nation or kept it together in
the case of Lincoln-a dubious choice for being there with the founders yet
because of his possibly Indian ancestry he deserves right of place. In a way
though restricting face-bills to just founders was exclusive-everyone knows who
the founders were but is Crispus Attucks on even the dollar?
It is females that
are being considered though for the tenner. So I will consider more females as
Vanity Fair considerations may be relevant. Plainly it might be a better
idea to sell the face-place of honor on bills for a billion a year to those
that can afford it. Would Donald Trump or Bill Gates, Warren Buffet or Bill
Clinton pay a billion to get their face on a ten-spot for a year's issue of
currency?
That issue aside,
Sacajawea is perhaps the sole female realistically qualified to be on the bill
as a builder of the American Republic for leading Lewis and Clarke's expedition
to the Promised Land, before it was all polluted and ugly from deforestation
and auto exhaust etc. There is a credible report that the expedition saw a
salmon in Montana or Idaho as impossible to believe as it is.
If no one remembers Susan B. Anthony it may be because she represented a special interest. Formerly to qualify one needed to represent the interests of all Americans directly rather than just a portion. Picky, picky, picky- Dwight Eisenhower probably deserves an honorable mention though he was only Supreme Allied Commander. One might want to
increase the range of women eligible for the ten dollar bill to include movie
stars and country western singers like Dolly Parton or Jane Fonda.
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