Ronald Reagan $50 Bill? Congressman Wants Money REDRAWN

RALEIGH, N.C. — A U.S. congressman from North Carolina wants the $50 bill redrawn to feature the face of former President Ronald Reagan.

Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry wants Congress to tell the U.S Treasury to replace former President Ulysses S. Grant on the bill. McHenry announced his bill Tuesday. He has 13 Republican co-sponsors.

Grant was a Union general during the Civil War who led the North to victory and later became the nation's 18th president.

McHenry said Reagan transformed the nation's political and economic thinking and argued that "every generation needs its own heroes."

One of McHenry's Republican primary opponents, Scott Keadle, said he admires Reagan, too. But he accused McHenry of pandering to voters with the bill instead of focusing his work on the bad economy.

Comments

[roots4cubs]

10:42 AM on 04/25/2010

I don't know what is most disturbing: Reading the ignorance and lies of the Reagan-haters here, or the idea that they actually think their Leftist Hate- Babble is true. Commenting on this garbage would give it a credibility it doesn't deserve. However, a word on Reagan's greatness is needed. Reagan was one of the key "transformational" presidents in US history and stands near the top of every presidential survey. He changed the country and world for the better. He ended the Cold War, transformed our economy with policies that triggered the longest 20-year period of economic growth in US history. Unemployment dropped from 9.7% to 5.3% (19 million new jobs created); Inflation: 13.5% to 4.4%; Government revenues doubled: $686.6B to $1.2T; Deficit: After a high of $260B in 1986, it dropped to about $125B by 1988 (3.6% of GDP or the average of the previous 30 years); Real Growth: a record 3.4% (1981-1989). He restored America's self-confidence and international prestige after the Carter debacle, and made the US political discourse and judiciary more conservative. Great presidents influence thoughts and events long after they're gone, and this applies to Reagan. We still discuss missile defense and tax cuts, among other things. He deserves any honor we give him, and will appear on our currency - once the leftist demagogues/intellectual pygmies either shut up or stop distorting the legacy of a great president to perpetuate their own ideological bigotries.

[nightgallery]

12:21 PM on 03/05/2010

Facebook group against this proposed travesty: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=369745369202&ref=nf

[nightgallery]

12:17 PM on 03/05/2010

Ridiculous. Grant was a FAR more important president for our Union than Reagan. Hands down. Reagan was TERRIBLE for this nation. No one did more to sow the seeds of the crisis we are in now. He sold out the working class of this great country. He kept untold millions from ever having a shot at being middle class. Please! He doesn't even deserve a postage stamp.

[olorinstaff]

06:16 PM on 03/04/2010

Put a picture of Reagan giving the American middles class the finger.

[fishmeister1907]

04:10 PM on 03/04/2010

uhhh yeah, No

[MrJoyboy]

02:52 PM on 03/04/2010

A moth-eaten actor or a hero of the Civil War on the $50 bill? Tough decision.

[LiberalBuzz]

02:46 PM on 03/04/2010

Saint Ronnie was also opposed HEAVILY to Medicare and put out a short film decrying it's horrible effects upon America. He claimed it would lead to the downfall of America and help turn it into a socialist communist society.

The video has to be around somewhere.

Until Bush/Cheney came along he was the WORST president ever.

The absolute worst...then of course we got Bush.

[LMPE]

02:39 PM on 03/04/2010

Uh, you do know that Ronnie would have failed the GOP purity test, right?

[DrBulldog]

02:25 PM on 03/04/2010

Put Reagan on the 50?

Why, absolutely yes. Completely appropriate.

Can anyone think of anyone else more responsible for turning our real currency into "play money"? Putting Reagan on the 50 would complete the transformation.

[gurukalehuru]

01:35 PM on 03/04/2010

Oh, hell to the no.

[SPacific]

01:34 PM on 03/04/2010

The republican from North Carolina would rather waste the taxpayer's time and money by promoting such a farce than actually doing something constructive for the people from his state. It really is just disgusting considering all the pain and suffering that a number of his constituents are experiencing...The same could be said of the majority of his political colleagues at this point.

[TexanInMississippi]

02:17 PM on 03/04/2010

Well put!

[NavyVet2008]

01:31 PM on 03/04/2010

A more fitting place for Reganwould be printed picks of him on my toilet paper.

[NXQZs]

02:32 PM on 03/04/2010

I was going to say on Zig Zags....

[hallowellboy]

01:06 PM on 03/04/2010

I felt bad for Reagan when he stood up and shouted "Where's the popcorn?" at Nixons funeral. Sadder than his presidency.

[robeson]

01:05 PM on 03/04/2010

Reagan, who hugely increased the size of government, the national debt, made the US, for the first time, a debtor nation, should be on the $3 bill.

[deepintheheartoftejas]

12:59 PM on 03/04/2010

I might support Eisenhower replacing Grant. Eisenhower, like Grant, was a real war hero--he didn't just play one on TV like Reagan, and he was a more vastly more effective president than either Grant or Reagan. He was one of the last moderate Republicans the country has seen. He was honored on the short-lived dollar coin in the 70s, but those never circulated widely.

[SPacific]

01:07 PM on 03/04/2010

JFK's 50c pieces aren't widely circulated either......I say put JFK and Eisenhower both on widely circulated currency or coins......