What do you do for money...

There seems to be an uproar about changing our money because they may or may not pull Andrew Jackson off the twenty dollar note and replace him with Harriet Tubman. First who gives a fig? Seriously, there are more important things in your life, let alone the world for anyone to give more than a passing thought to this. Even this is time possibly ill spent. Secondly, if you do find it to be a concern to you, ask yourself a few questions. Will make the bill worth less, in the economy not for some esthetic reason you have in your mind. Will you be paid less money because of the change in how the money looks? Do you work for the Treasury Department? If you have answered no to all those questions, not including the esthetic reasons, then you should probably find some other thing to concern yourself with and no I don’t think what restroom transgendered people are using qualifies as a better place to focus your concern. If you want to be pissed off about something in the economy, specifically the treasury. How about the millions the US government wastes on making one cent coinage, there is something to come up in arms about… well maybe not guns but certainly protest worthy, writing your representatives about kinds of action. The penny is a waste of money, time and it does not facilitate use in the economy. The five and ten cent coins should also be killed off as well but that isn’t the point today. Another thing bills are not practical as currency. The guy on the twenty dollar note which many seem to be so fond of keeping on the twenty dollar note, thought that paper currency was not a good idea. So let’s put him on paper money as a way to remember his Presidency? From what I read he would have rather had a whiskey named after him or a casino … as in he drank and gambled …like a lot, no I mean a lot. As in Jackson lost some stuff in the White House on a bet drinking and gambling. Not sure if he is the guy we want on any money really. Jackson wasn’t such a fan of banking either and felt the power of banks should be very limited and not centralized or be involved in politics. In fact, Jackson made it a personal mission to ruin, not just professionally but on a personal level too, one banker because of his involvement in, what he believed to be corruption. Which may have been misuse of presidential power and in which Jackson was censured by Congress as well. The only President to have that happen. If you want to honor Jackson as President, fighting to dismantle the mega banks would be a better place to start than arguing about if he is on money or not and again a type of money he didn’t like at all. The thing is, while we haven’t seen much change in what our money looks like in the last two generations there have been a lot of changes to our money. Like adding the words, “in god we trust” in the 1950’s. We have had all kinds of things on paper money and coins which are not presidents. Even today the Ten and the One Hundred both have non presidents on the notes. Hamilton was a secretary of the treasury and Franklin was …well was Franklin but never a President. We’ve had Greek gods on the money, buffalo, women, other animals, buildings, and whatever else you like to put on money it’s been on there. Just because we haven’t seen much of it in our lives doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. Harriet Tubman was kind of an awesome person, not that she was any less or more awesome than Andrew Jackson but a very interesting person in our history as a nation. The bottom line is that it doesn’t matter whose face is on the money it will still spend the same. Putting Harriet Tubman on the twenty no more disrespects Andrew Jackson, than putting him on the money which he would have objected to in the first place. Why not honor more people than just the select few who become President? Seems like we would be better than this. Find something worthwhile to be pissed off about or better yet a reason to smile Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards