Former Fed chief Bernanke: Dump Jackson, not Hamilton, on money
WASHINGTON — Former Federal Reserve chief-turned blogger Ben Bernanke is calling for the U.S. Treasury to abandon plans to drop Alexander Hamilton from his featured spot on the $10 bill and to dump Andrew Jackson from the $20 instead.
Bernanke wrote Monday that he is “appalled” by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew’s plans to replace Hamilton with a woman. In a post entitled “Say it ain’t so, Jack,” Bernanke wrote that adding a woman is “a fine idea, but it shouldn’t come at Hamilton’s expense.”
He called the first Treasury secretary “without doubt the best and most foresighted economic policymaker in U.S. history.”
By contrast, Jackson, president from 1829 to 1837, was “a man of many unattractive qualities and a poor president.” Jackson opposed attempts to establish a U.S. central bank.
“Given his views on central banking,” Bernanke wrote, “Jackson would probably be fine with having his image dropped from a Federal Reserve note.”
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Repubilcans wanted to take Roosevelt off the dime and replace him with Reagan, even though FDR saved the damned country as it was going down the tubes AND started the March of Dimes to fund polio ressearch that led to the Salk and Sabin vaccine.
I must say, I wish Jackson had not blessed us with the jackass as our party's symbol. Still, fuck 
Bernanke.
