<p>Hey does anyone here agree with me that Alexander Hamilton does NOT deserve to be on our ten dollar bills?</p>
<p>I mean, the guy wasn’t even president!!!</p>
<p>I strongly urge each and every one of you to write a letter to your congressmen and complain about the unfairness of placing Hamilton on the ten dollar bill!!!</p>
<p>REASONS WHY HAMILTON DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE ON US CURRENCY</p>
<li><p>As mentioned before, he was never president.</p></li>
<li><p>He led a political party called the Federalists which basically collapsed after Thomas Jefferson became president in 1800. Clearly, he was not a very great leader if his party collapses soon after he begins expressing his views.</p></li>
<li><p>As secretary of the treasury to George Washington, Hamilton used his office for his own personal gain - by going against the written constitution to enpower the federal government. He caused millions to lose their money and made sure that his friends became rich.</p></li>
<li><p>He died in a duel against Aaron Burr because he was too pu$$y to shoot a gun so Burr hit him easily.</p></li>
<li><p>It was commonly known that Hamilton hated the people of America, believing they were too stupid to know what was good for them. “The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom determine right.”</p></li>
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<p>Cmon guys, do you think that a snobbish, rich boy, failure, a$$hole deserves to be on our 10 dollar bill in today’s society??? NO!</p>
<p>Whenever you get a 10 dollar bill from a store, ask if you can exchange it for two fives. Encourage your friends to help us in our boycott of the 10 dollar bill. Do anything you can to get that idiot off our bill!!!</p>
<p>Hey howbout we have a poll - who do you think we should put on our $10 bill?
Personally, I think FDR deserves a turn in the spotlight. Comments?</p>
<p>Jefferson did adopt some of Hamilton's views. After all, today's strong central government is based on some of Hamilton's ideas. Benjamin Franklin never became president. Hell, he wasn't as politically affiliated as Hamilton. Yet he is on our $100 bill. I know that there are plenty of positively connotated aspects you can point to for Franklin. I'm sure that there are equally great features for Hamilton as well. Maybe he wasn't the best model, but shouldn't a little credit be given to the poor guy?</p>
<p>Err..... Have you ever seen Fahrenheit 9/11? About helping friends, I mean...
And I think Alexander Hamilton is an excellent choice to be on a bill. After all, he was one of the initial triggers for the 2-party system. Yes, and maybe he dared to express his views, and maybe the Federalists collapsed; but does this not make him a rolemodel? He didn't agree with Jefferson, and thus refused to collaborate with him. It is through open discussion and sometimes even through conjuring up controversies and conflicts that politics is even allowed to move. And for suggesting that because he did not shoot Aaron Burr he doesn't deserve to be on a bill... how is REFUSING TO KILL ANOTHER PERSON not a highly honorable and even Christian thing to do?
And yes, "the people are turbulent and change." That is why we need politicians, isn't it? That is not at all an un-patriotic thing to say, it is realistic.
I also don't believe that a person on a bill has to be president... In Switzerland, for example, the person on the 10 franc bill is Sophie T</p>
<p>Actually, I would not call it weak. Sure, Jefferson could be on a bill, too; why not? He was a great president, a great architect, and so on.</p>
<p>But, seriously, do you really want to tell me that you believe that there haven't been any benefits cut for friends of the Bush administration? And here, I don't talk about just what Michael Moore says, but in general. War in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich, the Religious Right...</p>
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<p>War in Iraq- I guess you could make a point of how clumsily it was executed. I will give you that. </p>
<p>Taxs cuts for the rich. You got any idea how much of a tax burden they bear? What do you propose- tax cuts for the poor? They don't even pay any tax!!!</p>
<p>The Religious Right- was around long before Bush came. I wouldn't exactly say the Socialist Left is a better alternative.</p>
<p>Yes, I do propose tax cuts for the poor... or at least giving them back nice little things like child benefits, which were partially cancelled. Of course I know how much money rich people have to pay in taxes. But don't you think it's just fair that they have to pay more?
The Religious Right naturally existed before Bush, but they did a whole lot of campaigning for him (I wrote a graduation paper about this), and there is a quite long list of things that Bush has done to improve their situation, to pursue their goals....
No, the Socialist Left is not a better alternative. Extremism in any way is never a good alternative.</p>
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Yes, I do propose tax cuts for the poor... or at least giving them back nice little things like child benefits, which were partially cancelled. Of course I know how much money rich people have to pay in taxes. But don't you think it's just fair that they have to pay more?
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Giving 'the poor' benifits by coercing money from others is socialism. The poor don't pay income tax..So you can't, uh, give them tax cuts.</p>
<p>Hamilton's main policies are much more influential today than those of Jefferson's. States rights is dead while the federal government has most of the political power nowadays.</p>
<p>^ Ahem, I was getting to that. I propose to collect all your $10 bills and burn them. So feel free to send them in. You can trust me to put that guy's face out of circulation for good.</p>
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It was commonly known that Hamilton hated the people of America, believing they were too stupid to know what was good for them. "The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom determine right."
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<p>I think the internet has proven him right on that count.</p>