My God, I can’t believe you went public with this insanity of yours.
I’ll make sure to have Luna Child mail you another one.
Well, I’m no lover at all of Andrew Jackson, neither for his Indian actions, his tendency to limit the power of the federal government(I think the Bank was a good idea), or his personality. I’m just saying that the primary mover on the Cherokee removals was the state of Georgia, which had wanted Cherokee land for a long time, especially after gold was discovered.
And just to nitpick, but the Court never ruled on the constitutionality of the Indian Removal Act. Jackson’s response to Marshall was over Worcester v. Georgia, which dealt with whether or not Georgia had the power to enforce laws on Cherokee land. (Samuel Worcester, a missionary from Vermont living in New Echota, and cofounder of the Cherokee Phoenix with Elias Boudinot, had violated a Georgia law requiring licenses for non-Cherokee living on Cherokee land.)
Gah! Curse youuuuuuu! shakes fist in your general direction
bamf
I hate those damn two cent pieces. Always butting in with an opinion nobody asked for.
[Lucy Van Pelt]
Thank you, Shirt Ninja 13. Five cents please. 
Ah! Nickels, nickels, nickels!
[/Lucy Van Pelt]
I don’t disagree with you there. But with Indian Hater Jackson’s help, it might never have happened. And he wasn’t just willing; he was eager. Had been for many years.
“without”?
Lordy. Yes, without. Thank you, Kim. :o
[Butthead]
“Huh, hu-huh, huh…you said dick…Huh, hu-huh, huh”
[/Butthead]
Until you recall that anyone over 45 can remember when gumball machines took pennies, though the gumball you got was smaller. Quarters are also less attractive when you realize that you could collect all 50 of the new State Quarters–or you will be able to once they finish the run–and it would still be only barely enough money to buy a couple of combo meals at a fast food joint. That’s if you actually wanted to go to Carl’s Junior and pay for your meal by counting out nearly 50 coins. And that’s the “big”,“valuable” coin…the flagship, as it were, of U.S. circulating coinage.
I am exaggerating a bit. I do pick up quarters and dimes, not that I often find them lying around, and I spend them, usually as part of a plan to avoid accumulating more change. In a more sensibly organized system of denominations, a quarter of a dollar, or maybe a dime, would be the lowest denomination that was worth being minted. I certainly don’t know why we need any smaller denominations when there are so few things you can buy that cost less than a dollar, and probably absolutely nothing that costs less than a dime.
yeah, I know, maybe a couple of small nails at a hardware store
Props to the OP for correctly spelling nickels.
Apropros of my earlier comment, in the time when The Bank Dick was made, the volume of W.C. Field’s nose filled with nickels would have amply provided the kid with pocket money for quite some time. If you threw in the volume of Shemp Howard’s nose in dimes, the boy could probably have done some modest Christmas shopping for his whole family.
(You’re a girl, I hope?)
Shirt ninja 13, I am writing you because of your problems with nickels. Being a citizen of the United States who is very concerned about our image, I want to help you to get rid of those nickels causing you problems. Unfortunately I am a bit short on resources but would be willing to work out a deal with you. Send all of the nickels you can find to me and I will cash them in and send you back crisp paper money. I only require a small fee in order to feed my children. So that we can make the transactions as smooth as possible, the shipments of nickels should be as large as will possibly fit into the cargo hold of an international flight. Please do not let anyone know about this arrangement as it carries great risk for me.
I don’t know how anyone can like dimes more than nickels. Whose idea was it to make a coin that’s smaller than a penny worth ten of them? Pretty dumb if you ask me. For being the world’s superpower, our money is pretty lame.
Our money evolved by chance, and things that evolve by chance are rarely pretty. It’s a damned lucky thing that we got a decimalized currency system early on, because if we hadn’t gotten one when we did we would probably still be dealing with a monster only the Brits could love. 
I think we should get rid of the penny, nickel, and quarter, reintroduce the fifty-cent piece into widespread circulation, and simply price everything to some multiple of the dime. Hopefully, this will get rid of the sales tax on lower-priced items (food, clothing, other essentials), making it that much less regressive, and shift it onto items where the tax is a lower percentage of the total price.
What he said, though I’d also eliminate the dollar bill and replace it with a coin. The problem with making a change – ahem – of this kind is that, while nothing costs 5c or 8c anymore, lots of things cost $1.98, or $5.23, and by taking away pennies and nickels there is a perceived hit to the customer, because it’s erroneously assumed that prices would be rounded up.
Bah. Don’t go there.
I oppose this idea, because I don’t like having to stow a bunch of coins.
Our new paper money didn’t evolve by chance, it was made by commitee. And it is fugly.
I agree. I honestly don’t see any improvements in the security aspects that mandated such radical design changes. Watermarks may have been difficult to shove into the old designs, but the ugliness that is the current Andy Jackson portrait cannot be justified.
(I don’t like the guy either. But it would have been better to replace him with Madison than inflict that upon the free world.
And Franklin wasn’t President, either.)