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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on March 03, 2010, 03:44:37 PM
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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-03-10 09:13 AM
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Proposal would put Ronald Reagan's face on the $50 bill
Source: Los Angeles Times
Ronald Reagan is honored by, among other things, an airport, a freeway, an aircraft carrier and -- ironically for a critic of big government -- one of the biggest federal buildings in Washington.
Now, some of the late president's admirers are launching a new effort to add another honor: printing his likeness on a $50 bill in place of Ulysses S. Grant's.
In polls of presidential scholars, Reagan consistently outranks Grant, said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.), who introduced legislation to make the change.
But at least one Democrat who serves on the House Financial Services Committee, where the proposal has been sent, isn't ready to jettison Grant for "someone whose policies are still controversial."
"Our currency ought to be something that unites us," said Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks).
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-reag...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4291658
You can guess what follows. :mental:
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Ulysses S. Grant unites us??
Brad Sherman is a kook among kooks. No surprise he'd say something stupid.
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This one is yet another Reagan bashing thread:
clarence swinney (385 posts)
Wed Mar-03-10 01:23 PM
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REAGAN RECORD AS FIRST (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7834642)
Source: lifeaholics of america
------RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS FIRST---------------------------
(1900-1989)
(Peggy Noonan pay attention)
1.First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation in Peacetime
2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight years
4. First to double the deficit in just eight years
5. First to “almostâ€: triple the national DEBT in just eight years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50 years.
8. First to have “real†INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1% over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1 dollar.
The hlist goes up to 76.... :whatever:
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Obama's debt is dwarfing Reagan's
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Obama's debt is dwarfing Reagan's
You know that this activity: :banghead:
Is more useful than actually getting a DUmb**** to admit that.
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I never thought I'd see "respect" and "Reagan" used in the same sentence with association to the DUmpster! I must be slippin'!
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I never thought I'd see "respect" and "Reagan" used in the same sentence with association to the DUmpster! I must be slippin'!
It was used in a sarcastic way, doncha' know?
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It was used in a sarcastic way, doncha' know?
Oh I know! It just surprised the hell outa me. heh!
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Grant unites US? I guess his "controversial" involvement in that walk in the South has been forgotten? :tongue:
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Grant unites US? I guess his "controversial" involvement in that walk in the South has been forgotten? :tongue:
Naw, Sherman acted on his own!
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Na, I was talking about Northern Virginia