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Ben Carson: Put Harriet Tubman on the $2 bill instead

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Dalek

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Ben Carson: Put Harriet Tubman on the $2 bill instead

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Ben Carson, fresh off beating Ted Cruz in a New York House district during Tuesday's GOP primary, weighed in on the newest face of the $20 bill, Harriet Tubman.

His suggestion: Maybe she should be on a bill that’s worth less?

Carson’s comment came Wednesday on Fox Business Network's Cavuto Coast to Coast, where he spoke with host Neil Cavuto.

“Well I think Andrew Jackson was a tremendous secretary. I mean a tremendous president,” Carson, a former GOP presidential candidate who now backs Donald Drumpf, said of the soon-to-be former face of the twenty.

“Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt,” Carson said. “In honor of that, we kick him off of the money.”

“Are you anti-Harriet Tubman?” Cavuto asked, presumably meaning anti-putting-Tubman-on-the-$20-bill and not anti-Tubman, just, in general.

“No, I love Harriet Tubman,” said Carson. “I love what she did. But we can find another way to honor her. Maybe a $2 bill.”

The $2 bill was last issued in 2003.
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Video at the link.
 
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No, if Tubman is replacing anybody (and she's not, she is complementing AJ with the lattes developments), it should be Hamilton, then AJ, and Jefferson as one of the last. Come on, dude wrote the Declaration of Independence. My man Carson, the fuck are you doing?

Also, source is wrong. Latest 2s are from 2013. I know because I get them from the bank anytime I need to spend more than 100 bucks and want to feel big.

“Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt,” Carson said. “In honor of that, we kick him off of the money.”

This quote from Carson? Agree 100 percent in this regard.

As I mentioned in the other thread, twerking the 5, and replacing the people on the 10, 20, 50 would be best, but that would be too much to be done in one draw unfortunately.
 
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Oblivion

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Now I know that sounds insulting, but is it really? I mean, that would mean she'd still be worth TWO George Washingtons.
 
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EdibleKnife

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Harriet risked life and limb helping enslaved peoples reach freedom but sure balancing the federal budget was like even more harrowing
 
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Einchy

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On the Fox Business Twitter (where the video is hosted)there's a lady saying she'll never carry 20s again.

Some people are taking this news rather hard.
 
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Oblivion

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It's amusing that Carson justifies this by saying Jackson balanced the budget. You'd think that whole Trail of Tears thing would knock out a couple of points, but guess not.

Not to mention he also wasn't a huge fan of abolishing that whole slavery thing either.
 
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sprsk

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Which is dumber:

The fact he wants to reinstate the 2 dollar bill
The fact he thinks Harriet Tubman isn't worthy of replacing Andrew "racist maniac" Jackson on the $20
 
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Byakuya769

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Coon.

Disagree if you want, but it's true.

It really pisses me off that a piece of shit like Jackson was ever on Anya currency, and will STILL be on the back of the $20 in 2030. We just ignore our history of genocide and have presidential candidates throwing accolades at the orchestrator of that atrocity.
 
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Oblivion said:
It's amusing that Carson justifies this by saying Jackson balanced the budget. You'd think that whole Trail of Tears thing would knock out a couple of points, but guess not.

Not to mention he also wasn't a huge fan of abolishing that whole slavery thing either.
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Ben Carson's pretty close to telling people emancipation was too much, too soon
 
HUELEN10

HUELEN10

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sprsk said:
Which is dumber:

The fact he wants to reinstate the 2 dollar bill.
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I really hate the fact that people think it's gone. it's not issued every year, but it's always in circulation and has been since the bicentennial. They are not that uncommon, and are quite handy. Carson is foolish by talking about replacing Jefferson. Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin are IMO the "immortals" of paper money; they ain't ever going away as their contributions are way too important. Other people have similar sentiments on the big money 4.
 
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Yaboosh

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HUELEN10 said:
I really hate the fact that people think it's gone. it's not issued every year, but it's always in circulation and has been since the bicentennial. They are not that uncommon, and are quite handy.
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Your definition of uncommon and handy are suspect.
 
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Dishwalla

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sprsk said:
Which is dumber:

The fact he wants to reinstate the 2 dollar bill
The fact he thinks Harriet Tubman isn't worthy of replacing Andrew "racist maniac" Jackson on the $20
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The $2 bill still exists, it's just not circulated much. You can go to just about any bank and ask for them.
 
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Tobor

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sprsk said:
Which is dumber:

The fact he wants to reinstate the 2 dollar bill
The fact he thinks Harriet Tubman isn't worthy of replacing Andrew "racist maniac" Jackson on the $20
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The fact that there are living human beings who voted for this man in a Presidential primary.
 
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Fisticuffs

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HUELEN10 said:
I really hate the fact that people think it's gone. it's not issued every year, but it's always in circulation and has been since the bicentennial. They are not that uncommon, and are quite handy. Carson is foolish by talking about replacing Jefferson. Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin are IMO the "immortals" of paper money; they ain't ever going away as their contributions are way too important.
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They are pretty fucking uncommon and what is your point?
 
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Booshka

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Easy to balance a budget when you have Slavery. Ben Carson is actually an idiot savant, seriously, stick to operating on Brains.
 
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