Norquist: Time is right to put ‘Reagan on the $10 bill.’
By on Jul 24th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Norquist: Time is right to put ‘Reagan on the $10 bill.’
In 1997, conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist initiated the Reagan Legacy Project, which sought to “name something — a stadium, a stretch of turnpike, anything — after Reagan in every state in the union.” Another proposal favored by the group is to have “Reagan’s image replace that of Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first treasury secretary, on the $10 bill.” Speaking to the Washington Examiner yesterday, Norquist suggested that the time is right to push that project again. “It sounds like a good time to re-start the conversation about getting Reagan on the $10 bill,” said Norquist. “I don’t know why the Bush administration has dropped the ball on this.”
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Put his face on toilet paper not U.S. currency.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:55 amOur dollar is already in the crapper, we don’t need a reminder of why.
Geez, Norquist — why not just plop Reagan’s face in the blue field on the American flag instead of having a bunch of stars there?
Although since Reagan was the one who began the skyrocketing debt our country is in now, which has led to the devaluing of the dollar and various other economic ills, perhaps putting him on money might be appropriate. Then as we spend the hard earned money we have, we will be constantly reminded of who to blame.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:55 amIt’s time to put Norquist in the bathtub for some waterboarding, too.
Reagan: a bad actor, union buster, illegal arms seller, liar, and the first to put a Bush on the map.
My, what a legacy!
July 24th, 2008 at 10:55 amThe time is right to deport Norquist.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:56 amPutting Ray-gun on ANYTHING is like putting Charles Manson a a bill.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:56 amUm… Because EVEN THEY think it’s stoopid?
July 24th, 2008 at 10:57 amNorquist: “I don’t know why the Bush administration has dropped the ball on this.”
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Oh, come on. You KNOW there’s no benefit for the oil cronies in this proposal.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:57 amObviously, Mr. Norquist is totally out of touch with the US as a whole.
His idea might have floated in 2000.
Does he seriously think that Democratic Congress majority that will be elected in 2008 is going to push for Reagan on anything?
July 24th, 2008 at 10:57 amLet’s hear it for Alexander Hamilton! He only started both our monetary system and our banking system. He was one of those founding fathers who gave much to the greatness of our country. It would be a disgrace to take him off the ten dollar bill. He deserves the honor.
You can honor Reagan anyway you want, but we are America because of this wonderful, smart, talented people who began it all for us. Let us continue to honor them.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:00 ami don’t understand dropping the ball on that either…
it’s not like bushco had anything important to do the past 8 years…
July 24th, 2008 at 11:01 amTime to put Norquist on the three dollar bill.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:02 amOVER MY DEAD BODY
July 24th, 2008 at 11:05 amTime to put Norquist on a boat back to . . . I don’t know. Somewhere. Anywhere but here.
I’d support putting Reagan’s puss on a $500 bill if Norquist will support putting FDR’s image on a $5. And Bill Clinton on the $20.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:06 amMight as well put Benedict Arnold on a bill too, if we’re now honoring traitors.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:06 amTime to dig up Ronnie’s corpse, so Grover can make sweet sweet love to it.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:06 amhttp://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/24/headlines
July 24th, 2008 at 11:07 amZooey:
July 24th, 2008 at 11:08 amYou are a twist!!
I still just wanna know what sort of parent names their ki Grover…
In light of the controversy concerning the sewer plant in San Francisco and given that George WTF came after Reagan I would suggest they name the sewer facility the Ronnie Raygun Bush Producing Plant. That way we keep all our shit in one basket.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:08 amToday we are facing the most serious economic crisis since Ronald Reagan was President and some clown wants to put Reagan’s mug on the $10 bill. What kind of message does that send? Next they will be asking to put George W. Bush’s mug on the $5 bill. Where does the idiocy end?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:12 amReagan was a crook and one of the worst Presidents. He wants to reward a criminal by putting him on our currency. Next they will want to replace George Washington.
Alexander Hamilton was a great man and one of our founding fathers that was due this honor, and it should never be taken away.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:13 amI’d rather have Reagan on the nickel in place of psycho-racist Jefferson.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:14 amThe costs involved in the design and execution of new currency is unwarranted under current fiscal conditions. I don’t give a shit what dipshit’s face is on the front.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:15 amThe Chinese should put Reagan’s picture on the yuan, since he is the one who first had the idea to ship America’s manufacturing jobs to China.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:15 amReagen’s head should go on the penny, which about a year ago ( maybe 9 months ago–I;m losing track) cost around 40% more to produce in raw material than it’s face value.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:15 amBush’s visage should go on the nickel which is even more expensive.
Both of these would be a fitting tribute to their ecomomic polices.
And then of course they should be taken out of circulation shortly after issue, the dollar should revalued and the new bills should be be made in different sizes according to denomination.
‘The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, the brainchild of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform, is waging a relentless campaign to memorialise its hero. Getting the capital’s National Airport renamed after him was only the start.
It is now in the process of creating a Reagan memorial in each of the country’s 3,067 counties (successes so far include a six-foot-tall portrait made entirelyly from 14,000 jelly beans).’
July 24th, 2008 at 11:16 amSome psychologists needs to come up with a new Syndrome:
Reaganerotica.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:17 amLet’s put Ronnie on the penny…and then abolish the penny.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:17 amGrover Norquist? Go answer your cell phone, girlfriend. It’s JeffyLube, your manwhore calling to confirm today’s nooner. He says he’s dropped two Viagras cuz he knows what a big ole bottom you are, darlin’. And don’t forget it’s $300 cash for the hour.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:17 amNorquist, just get Ronnie’s face tatooed on your butt and get it done with.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:18 am‘Something’s Wrong’ by k’s Choice
July 24th, 2008 at 11:19 am‘When your president’s an actor . . something’s wrong . .’
I’ll take two fives instead, please.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:19 amHow about they put a picture of reagan sitting on grover’s face on it?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:20 am5th Estate:
July 24th, 2008 at 11:22 amIn the short term how would you go out abolishing the penny and nickel without disproportionate pain the the weaker end of the socioeconimic scale? Definately both the penny and nickel have to go but how is it done fairly?
Horsehockey, Grover!
July 24th, 2008 at 11:23 amHere’s the deal, Grover:
You can put Ronnie’s face on the
front of the bill, as long as
this photo goes on the back.
K?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:25 amI thought the wacky Republicans did a great job of honoring President Alzheimer in my neck of the woods by renaming what was formerly called the Cross County Highway in his honor. The road was a horribly expensive boondoggle which ran over budget, destroyed wetlands and was constructed so poorly that accidents are endemic. The clincher was that it doesn’t run the whole way across the county because the rich village on the east side of town refused to let them put it through their jurisdiction.
As I have said on this site before, if the winger necrophiliacs insist on putting Reagan’s senile face on something, make it a Treasury bill or savings bond in honor of his contribution to the national debt.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:28 amFlorida’s Turnpike officially was christened the “Ronald Reagan Turnpike” back in, I believe, 1998. Fortunately, the signs designating this fact are few and far between. But, because I have to travel on the ‘pike regularly, I’ve become increasingly annoyed that my GPS calls it “Florida’s Turnpike – Ronald Reagan Turnpike.”
And it uses an extra-smarmy voice when it says that, too.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:31 amIf Ray-gun’s image is put on any currency, I will refuse to accept it at the bank, store, anywhere.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:33 amYeah, well, then I guess it would be ok to put Charlie Manson on the five then.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:39 amToaster, after your comment on the suicide, I remembered Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451) suddenly confused about why that woman preferred to be burned alive before watching her books on fire…
July 24th, 2008 at 11:40 amIt’s time to put his sorry ass in prison. His buddy Abramoff is waiting.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:40 amReagan is the reason we have most of the economic problems we have today. It all started with de-regualation and Grover is a thug who supports destroying the constitution as well as the economy. These morons who want wars without paying for them are real geniuses in their own minds. To some that is closer to someone being insane.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:41 amReagan toilet paper and GW Bush Sewer…not near as bad a legacy as the piles of innocent dead bodies killed by the policies of these criminals.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:41 amReagan started this crap. Put his picture on government issued,
July 24th, 2008 at 11:42 am“nap tokens”.
…because we’ve solved every problem we face as a nation and have nothing better to do than honor a man who is responsible for a number of said problems.
Reagan wasn’t all bad, but good lord people – he was NOT an infallible demi-god, as the right would have you believe.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:45 amWhy not? A ten-spot was all that was left in the Treasury when he left.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:47 amdbadass In the short term how would you go out abolishing the penny and nickel without disproportionate pain the the weaker end of the socioeconimic scale? Definately both the penny and nickel have to go but how is it done fairly?
That’s a great question and I have no idea! :D
I think there’s two issues here-the cost of prducing money and the value of the money itself, domestically and internationally.
The nickel and dime could be made out of cheaper material I guess–physical money is just a token after all.
Back in 1974 Italy was going through a major financial crisis. When I was there I’d pay in Lire but my change was given in candy! Weird.
1969-70 the UK switched from the 240-unit ‘LSD’ to decimal money to the great consternation of anyone over the age of 10. In the mid 70’s, fuel crisis and all that, the Pound was “devalued” because the Brit economy was in the crapper.
I suspect there’s no present “fair”‘ approach one can take–circumstances prompt a devaluation and a government just has to decide when to bite the bullet, I guess.
An extreme example is Zimbabwe–1 Quadrillion Z-dollars is about $4000 US at the moment. They should have devalued two years ago.
I don’t know how such decisions are made, but there must be some threshold. I don’t reckon the USD needs to be devalued yet but it may be getting there. If so why not change the money as well?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:51 amWell, they should put also on the bill one of his brightest statements: “The Contras are the moral equivalents of the Founding Fathers”
July 24th, 2008 at 11:52 amThey have a Ronald Reagan highway in Cincinnati. The problem is when you get on it you forget where you’re going.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:52 amI’m gonna be sick. I still call it National Airport since Reagan fired the air traffic controllers and cut the sky marshall program making the airways safe for Al-Quida.
Used to think he was the worst President ever until this latest republic party “gift to ‘merica.”
July 24th, 2008 at 11:53 amThe Fed will have to print $$ with a laser printer soon to keep up with inflation, so why not? Not a big deal, just photoshop any old geezer into the pic and you can print happily away.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:55 amLet’s really go with the legacy of this country and put Disney and Loony Toons characters on the money.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:57 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
Geez, Norquist — why not just plop Reagan’s face in the blue field on the American flag instead of having a bunch of stars there?
Although since Reagan was the one who began the skyrocketing debt our country is in now, which has led to the devaluing of the dollar and various other economic ills, perhaps putting him on money might be appropriate. Then as we spend the hard earned money we have, we will be constantly reminded of who to blame.
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Just wait until November ‘08, and the country can put the face of Reagan in the brand new $1 billion bills, when the hyperinflation explodes, and that becomes the value of a piece of bread.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:09 pmReagan sold weapons to terrorists. Grover Norqvist, why do you hate America?
July 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pmThey should put his picture on the ten BILLION dollar note.
That would be appropriate, and we’re gonna need them sooner than any neocon thinks we will…
No one could have predicted!
July 24th, 2008 at 12:15 pmWell you all know me, I put my foot in mouth and then give my opinion at every opportunety..Using my poor spelling ofcourse.
I believe we are going at this putrid issue all wrong…Put all these ass wipe’s on the money, and make damn sure the party that put’s this crap up has to pay for the printing..Yep! make the RNC pay for this shiet…End of game..Ya all have a nice day now ya hear…….Blessings
July 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm5th Estate:
From what I understand it currently cost basically twice to produce those coins relative to their value. If they are abolished, I would assume all prices would simply roll to higher dime. Over the course of a year’s purchases this would cause substantial pain to the poor and working class. I am not suggesting that it is true but I have also read that since the value of the metals is currently greater than the value of the coinage that there is some concern that organized crime may soon find it profitable to begin illegal reprocessing to recover the base metals.
A local toyota dealership just got hit hard for catalytic converters.
Crazy world…
July 24th, 2008 at 12:24 pmHow about we dig Reagan’s corpse up and place his head on a pike.
¶ AIO
July 24th, 2008 at 12:31 pmUncle Ho Says:
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If Ray-gun’s image is put on any currency, I will refuse to accept it at the bank, store, anywhere.
Because of Reagan and his disciples, soon no one anywhere will accept any US currency.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:38 pmWhen Reagan’s face appears on paper currency, check back with me. I’ll be selling rubber stamps designed to make the bills more tolerable.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:40 pmIsn`t GROVER a charcter on Sesame Street……….
July 24th, 2008 at 12:41 pmOr is it the Muppets………
July 24th, 2008 at 12:42 pmOh, PUH-lease.
Put his stoopid face on Jelly Bellys. That’s far more appropriate.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:57 pmHey, give Ronny Raygun a little credit. At least he could spot a lemon:
“A moment I’ve been dreading. George (Vice President George H.W. Bush) brought his ne’er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida (future Gov. Jeb Bush). The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I’ll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they’ll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.”
— Ronald Reagan in his recently published diaries, May 17, 1986
July 24th, 2008 at 1:02 pmtruly pathetic. some mediocre (at best), intellectual lightweight actor vs. one of the most important and brilliant “founding fathers.” its funny how conservatives pillory and despise obama and the support he receives mocking him as “the messiah” or “the one” yet somehow ACTUALLY worshipping reagan, forcing his name and image upon everything via the instruments of the government just like cuba does with che and soviets did with lenin, lying about and building up his actual record while unfacetiously calling him “saint” even though he should have been impeached over iran contra, is a-ok
July 24th, 2008 at 1:13 pmLet’s put Bush on the $3 bill.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:22 pmcitizen_pain @ July 24th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Sorry, Ronnie didn’t say that. That was from an article where the author was wondering what Ronnie might have said about their first meeting. But I wish it was true!
July 24th, 2008 at 1:22 pmyep … because it is worth what a dime was worth when Ronnie was elected …
July 24th, 2008 at 1:32 pmJuan C. Says:
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Well, they should put also on the bill one of his brightest statements: “The Contras are the moral equivalents of the Founding Fathers”
Wow! I didn’t know that the founding fathers murdered nuns!
July 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pmHi Triplekick2:
July 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pmSo based on current economic realities do you support the costs associated with a “Reagan” ten? Do you think it represents the imaginery fiscal conservativism espoused by those who invented that idea? Reagan as a part of history aside, is this a wise expenditure?
If Reagan shows up on my money, I’ll use it to wipe my ass – even if he’s on the Fifty.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:55 pmLet’s wait till there’s a 13-dollar bill, and put him on that.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pmThese looney right wingers do not need Viagra. The mention of Ronald Reagan apparently gives them a glorious hard on; hence, the reason they want to see his dyed-hair head on everything.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:59 pmWhen this stupid idea first surfaced a few months ago, Norquist claimed that Alexander Hamilton was the only non-President on a US bill.
Louis Black said, “I’ll bet you a hundred dollars you are wrong!”
July 24th, 2008 at 2:12 pmI think we have room on the three dollar bill for Ronnie. It is appropriate that he and his political legacy be always associated with what is illegitimate.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pmOkay, let me think about this for a minute.
Time’s up. No. But thanks for asking, Grover.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:28 pmre Shoeless 79-
July 24th, 2008 at 2:31 pmBen Franklin: the only President who was never President
-FiresignTheatre
Cal Melenky:
July 24th, 2008 at 2:34 pmIs there any sort of F.T. box set or anything available? I know you can get some stuff as I have been looking lately but a “complete works” set would be shear magic!
So TripleKick2, about that fiscal responsibility thing?
July 24th, 2008 at 2:36 pmWhen we drain the treasury with the rest of the guvment that Norquist wishes to go down the toilet, let private enterprise stick The Great Napper on the plug nickel, the White House basement for the tail side.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:40 pmMaybe we could just work with one of those private “mints” to make a commemorative $1 coin for him. The coin manufacturing process fits Reagan quite well: put a really shiny coating over a relatively worthless core.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:51 pmO roll me over, my name is Grover
Lay me down, roll me over and do it again
Would somebody in DC give those lyrics to Mark Russel?
July 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pmReagan should have been rotting in prsion, not venerated on the $10 bill.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:00 pmcrippledick; you have NOT proven Ray-gun is a beloved prez, but then, some loyal diehards still admire Hitler too.
Ronnie quotes:
The Contras are the moral equivalents of our founding fathers.
Our founding fathers killed priests for saying ‘the meek shall inherit the earth? or raped/murdered nuns?
Is it news that some guy in South Succotash lost his job?
the origin of ‘compassionate conservatism’
I have outlawed Russia, we begin bombing in 5 minutes
warmongering fool- the original neocon
Ketchup is a vegetable
as applied to school lunch programs for poor kids
I could go on and on and on…….
July 24th, 2008 at 3:07 pmI forgot to list this classic Ray-gun line;
trees pollute the air more than factories
I guess that’s why he made James Watt Interior Secretary, to clear-cut every forest they can.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:12 pmReagan? On the $10? That’s silly. So OK, Reagan was a hugely popular president. He was absolutely horrid on several issues, but let’s ignore that, fine. Putting him on money, though? At least he should go on the $20. Andrew Jackson doesn’t deserve to have his face printed even on toilet paper, much less money (and the fact that he was completely opposed to the National Bank, while making his face’s placement on money ironic, doesn’t add enough irony to merit such an honor). The man was a genocidal maniac. Reagan may have paid for death squads, but I don’t think that’s as bad as the Trail of Tears.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:27 pmGrover Norquist should be in jail along with Ton DeLay for their collusion with Jack Abramoff for the K Street bribery and money laundering scandal that still has yet to be fully disclosed. The corporate media trying to re-establish and re-legitimise Grover Norquist in the public eye is laughable and one more example of corporate propaganda at it’s most extreme.
July 24th, 2008 at 5:08 pma neat and tidy toilet tissue leaf thats all he is worth. How offesnsive it would be for the citizens of central America to see this jerk’s image on an American note
July 24th, 2008 at 5:11 pmWhat about offering to put Reagan on the penny ? I figure that is about the right value for him.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:15 pmIt is amazing that the media finds the time to dig up these criminals and waste the bandwidth . . .
July 24th, 2008 at 6:35 pmmary Says:
‘The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, the brainchild of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform, is waging a relentless campaign to memorialise its hero. Getting the capital’s National Airport renamed after him was only the start.
It is now in the process of creating a Reagan memorial in each of the country’s 3,067 counties (successes so far include a six-foot-tall portrait made entirelyly from 14,000 jelly beans).’
I work in my county seat. If this piece of shit ever arrived here, I would tear it down the next day.
jimijazz Says:
Grover Norquist should be in jail along with Ton DeLay for their collusion with Jack Abramoff for the K Street bribery and money laundering scandal that still has yet to be fully disclosed. The corporate media trying to re-establish and re-legitimise Grover Norquist in the public eye is laughable and one more example of corporate propaganda at it’s most extreme.
DAMN THAT LIBRUL MEDIA!!!!
I RAYGUN’s face ever appears ON ANY bill, I will spray each one with E.coli and start a huge panic, so that they are all recalled. FCUK HIM, Dig IT up, hang IT, then decapitate IT like AIO above, Stick his stupid fuxing Max Headroom head on a PIKE for all to spit on.
And to the FuXing troll here, IF the Americans actually voted for the dolt, it was BEFORE the full scope of his TREASON had been dsicovered. The point brought before you was for you to PROVE that people still LOVE HIM, as your sychophantic GO-Over Nerdtwist tries to make people believe and you claim.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:18 pmMy suggestion: put his face on a special limited-edition three dollar bill. The only problem with commemorating President Reagan with issuance of a $3 bill is that the money would actually be worth something.
Maybe a more appropriate place to place that wrinkled visage would be on a $50 U.S. Savings Bond. Those bonds have always been a classic consumer fraud, paying interest rates that are pegged at below the rate of inflation and leaving the “investors” poorer at maturity than they started out. The irony is even better because the bonds deteriorate in value faster the bigger the deficit, as the underlying currency declines in value and as the interest rate on other investments is driven higher.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:48 pmNorquist probably jerks off to pictures of Ronald Reagan.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:01 pmWhy not Reagan on the penny? It seems more fitting since both are obsolete!
July 25th, 2008 at 1:41 amHELL. NO.
They want to put him on money, carve his face on Mt. Rushmore, etc. Hell, why doesn’t the GOP just build a damn temple to him where folks like Norquist can go and worship Reagan like some vile pagan idol?
Ronald Reagan does not merit a single honor such as that given to our former presidents whose faces are on our currency. I can’t stand the fact that there’s an airport in Washington DC that was named for him. Efforts to deify Reagan must be fought at every opportunity and instead of the hagiography we should promote the truth about this traitor and war criminal so that future generations aren’t fooled by the slick propaganda that turns a crook into an angel.
Heck, let’s name the next new sewage treatment plant after him! That seems much more fitting to the Reagan “legacy” to me.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am