A Republican lawmaker wants to place President Ronald Reagan’s likeness on the $50 bill, replacing President Ulyssess S. Grant. However it is hitting stiff opposition from progressive democrats:
“Every generation needs its own heroes,” McHenry said in a written statement. “One decade into the 21st century, it’s time to honor the last great president of the 20th and give President Reagan a place beside Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy.”
FDR’s likeness in on the dime and Kennedy’s is on the half-dollar.
McHenry pointed to a polls of presidential scholars that show Reagan consistently outranks President Grant, including a Wall Street Journal survey in 2005 that ranked Reagan sixth and Grant 29th.
But one Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee said he’s not ready to grant that honor to “someone whose policies are still controversial.”
“Our currency ought to be something that unites us,” Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., told the Los Angeles Times.
I don’t know if the Representative knows this or not, but President Reagan carried 49 of 50 states in two straight elections. Doesn’t look divisive to me? Also consider how FDR’s policies have divided a generation of Americans, yet his image made its way onto the dime!
Via Fox News
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