Reagan on Money?! Never! "Conservative" Republicans are hoping, in the 'mourning' period for Ronald Reagan, to push thru acts to put that Pretend-President and enemy of the poor and middle class on U.S. coins and/or paper money. Never!
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This is the guy who tripled the national debt and instituted a Plutocratic Revolution that has ruined scores of millions of Americans and saddled them with debt so great, at interest rates so high, that for the rest of their lives they will be oppressed by debt — unless they declare bankruptcy, which they should DO!
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If Truman, who stopped Communism from rolling over Europe after World War II, isn't on coins or bills, neither should Reagan be. If Carter, whose aid to Afghan rebels gave the Soviet Army its first bitter defeat, isn't on coins or bills, neither should Reagan be. If, for that matter, any real President, even the most scandal-ridden (Harding) and lackluster (Buchanan, Pierce), isn't on coins or bills, neither should Reagan, an incompetent imitation President (see the Sunday, June 6th entry to this blog), ever be.
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In any case, decisions of this importance should be made not hastily, in a time of pious pretend-admiration even from people who hated Reagan's guts during his lifetime, but well after he is in the ground, and historians have had a chance to weigh the things he did for us as against what he did to us.
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Reagan has done this country enormous economic harm. To reward that harm with enthronement on our coinage or paper money would be an insult to everyone in this country who is up to his or her eyeballs in debt.
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 12:48 PM