# Reagan on the $10?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 8, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294 "2004-06-08T16:23:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/41 "2004-06-09T03:06:00Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#):
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> Why the hell we keep a homicidal psychopath on a piece of currency is beyond me. If it takes Reagan to move him then so be it.
Because he vetoed the Bank of the United States, thereby decentralizing monetary control in this country and leading to the creation of state and private banks.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/42 "2004-06-09T03:10:54Z")
> [@kanicbird](#):
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> _100¢ - Sacajawea_
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> The song “one of these things are not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong” run through my head, and make a perfect opening for R. Reagan.
It’d be dubious praise at best to put the man on a coin nobody uses, so I don’t think that’ll happen. (Just like it’d be strange to name an airport after him… oh wait.)
I think the proposition mentioned at the end of the CNN piece - put him on half the dimes - is probably the most likely for reasons they explain. I think it’s way over the top, but then again I’m not shamelessly kissing up to a constituency. 😉
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/43 "2004-06-09T03:15:25Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> It would trickle down?
> 🙂
I don’t know, but I guess I whooshed everybody with why I suggested putting Reagan on the $2 bill. It is, after all, the bill everyone forgets is in circulation, so who better than to put on it, but a man who forgot everyone? 😉 (It gets really ugly if you think about it.)
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/44 "2004-06-09T03:19:01Z")
If I may speak as an outsider,
1. Logically the first people you should remove from currency are the ones who are currently on TWO items of currency, and
2. Reagan shouldn’t go on until more deserving people do.
It makes no sense to me for Washington to get the $1 and the quarter. There’s a certain obvious logic to having him on the $1, so take the quarter from him and give it to King.
However, the U.S. really needs to dump the $1 bill and go with $1 coins. So in the ideal world, you’d dump Sacagawea - come on, what a silly choice that was - and move Washington to the $1 COIN, freeing up the $0.25 for the Reverend Doc.
If you then must put Reagan on something, drop Jackson from the $20 - he looks crazy, anyway - and give Reagan the $20.
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### Author:  [@cookeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cookeze)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/45 "2004-06-09T03:19:03Z")
Reagan liked to tell this story:
“You know, a young man went into a grocery store and he had an orange in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, and he paid for the orange with food stamps and he took the change and paid for the vodka. That’s what’s wrong.”
So I say we put his picture on the front of a $10 food stamp.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/46 "2004-06-09T03:23:37Z")
> [@cookeze](#):
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> Reagan liked to tell this story:
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> “You know, a young man went into a grocery store and he had an orange in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, and he paid for the orange with food stamps and he took the change and paid for the vodka. That’s what’s wrong.”
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> So I say we put his picture on the front of a $10 food stamp.
Except, of course, most states have gone with a debit card system for food stamps now, so you’d have to put him on the card, and at least the ones around here have the Statue of Liberty and the American flag on them, and really, I think even Ronnie would be more than happy to give up his place for Lady Liberty.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/47 "2004-06-09T03:27:02Z")
> [@RickJay](#):
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> take the quarter from him and give it to King.
Absolutely.
> [@RickJay](#):
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> However, the U.S. really needs to dump the $1 bill and go with $1 coins.
No way. Too much big change I get during the day to carry in my pocket. Being male I use the automated checkout at Kroger. Buy a coke with a twenty and I have a pound of nineteen dollar coins to put in my pocket. My pants would fall down and all the women in the store would laugh themselves to death.
Not a good idea.
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### Author:  [@pyrrthon1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyrrthon1)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/48 "2004-06-09T03:32:36Z")
Put Reagan on the heads side of the penny and Bonzo on the tails.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/49 "2004-06-09T03:33:52Z")
> [@RickJay](#):
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> It makes no sense to me for Washington to get the $1 and the quarter. There’s a certain obvious logic to having him on the $1, so take the quarter from him and give it to King.
Nice as it sounds, this would be tremendously controversial. I can’t see it happening- who in Congress wants to be the guy who starts a fight over this?
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### Author:  [@citrus\_x\_paradisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/citrus_x_paradisi)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/50 "2004-06-09T03:38:00Z")
Few presidents deserve to be on the most-counterfeited bill more than Jackson. The past fifty years have had quite a bumper crop, but I think we ought to have a longer grace period before the deceased can haunt us through our wallets.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/51 "2004-06-09T03:39:55Z")
I don’t suppose there’s an official U.S. toilet paper …
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### Author:  [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/52 "2004-06-09T03:40:46Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> …who in Congress wants to be the guy who starts a fight over this?
Barney Frank.
Oh, wait, was that rhetorical?
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/53 "2004-06-09T05:00:19Z")
> [@cookeze](#):
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> Reagan liked to tell this story:
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> “You know, a young man went into a grocery store and he had an orange in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, and he paid for the orange with food stamps and he took the change and paid for the vodka. That’s what’s wrong.”
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> So I say we put his picture on the front of a $10 food stamp.
You know, I would have said you were blowing smoke, but I found that story repeated in a 1983 newspaper. Doesn’t mean he actually said it, but _damn!_.
The quote was made in 1982 by Bob Packwood(yes, I know :rolleyes: ) about how the great communicator responded to Republican concerns in private meeting with GOP leaders. He would change the subject, and come up with homilies, etc. which had little to do with solving the actual problem. Like a massive spending deficit.
So, I doubt that Reagan actally said that, but it would be in character for him to have.
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### Author:  [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/54 "2004-06-09T05:11:40Z")
> [@samclem](#):
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> You know, I would have said you were blowing smoke, but I found that story repeated in a 1983 newspaper. Doesn’t mean he actually said it, but _damn!_.
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> The quote was made in 1982 by Bob Packwood(yes, I know :rolleyes: ) about how the great communicator responded to Republican concerns in private meeting with GOP leaders. He would change the subject, and come up with homilies, etc. which had little to do with solving the actual problem. Like a massive spending deficit.
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> So, I doubt that Reagan actally said that, but it would be in character for him to have.
I suppose this is more Great Debates and I know it’s way off the OP –------ but if Reagan did say what he is alleged to have said – and if the behavior described was symptomatic – then why not describe the problem anecdotally. That’s what sends the message. It seems, at least to me, to be consistent with good communication.
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### Author:  [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/55 "2004-06-09T05:50:16Z")
$1 - Jerry Springer
$2 - Rev. Al Sharpton
$5 - Martha Stewart
$10 - Arnold Schwarzeneggar (From Terminator 3)
$20 - Carrot Top
$50 - Janet Jackson (w/ nipple ring)
$100 - Howard Stern
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### Author:  [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/56 "2004-06-09T07:22:08Z")
I think **Carnac** just hit the nail on the head. We should make like pre-Euro France and put naked tits and great cultural icons on our money.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/57 "2004-06-09T07:32:04Z")
I refuse to endorse sticking Reagan anywhere until we get [his Presidential papers](http://www.rcfp.org/news/mag/25-4/foi-reaganp.html) (the ones George W. Bush have tucked away for another 20+ years) unsealed and into the public eye.
Let’s see if St. Ron _really_ deserves all the praise the Pubbies keep heaping on him, I say.
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/58 "2004-06-09T07:32:59Z")
Is someone trying to imply Reagan did more for this country than Hamilton?
Please. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/59 "2004-06-09T07:39:27Z")
$1 - Bill Gates
$3 - GW Bush
$5 - Larry Flynt
$10 - Bozo the Clown
$20 - Ms Piggy
$50 - Mayor McCheese
$100 - Charley Manson
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### Author:  [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/60 "2004-06-09T07:57:28Z")
> [@rjung](#):
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> I refuse to endorse sticking Reagan anywhere …
:eek: Me neither! What the heck happened to this thread?! 😃
I’m Canadian, so I really don’t have a say in whose face should or shouldn’t appear on U.S. currency. (Heck, I don’t even know who most of the guys on our bills are. :rolleyes: ) Of course, will Americans themselves actually have any say in this?
Anyhoo, I’d like to see Mr. T on an American bill.
(Though I don’t think they should have updated her portrait, I’m glad Queen Elizabeth II - aka “L2” - appears on all our Canadian coins. I just wish we’d get back to having animals on both sides of the coin. 😉 )
Anyhoo…
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