Tfw other countries put inventors, scientists, artists, etc etc on their money

>tfw other countries put inventors, scientists, artists, etc etc on their money
>tfw we just put politicians on our money

>Benjamin Franklin
>not an inventor

dumb nigger

Weren't you going to take out based andrew jackson to put a sheboon?
Disgraceful

Forgot to switch your proxy?

He's known for being a politician over being an inventor. If he wasn't an inventor, but was still a a founding father, he'd still be on the currency. If he was an inventor but not a founding father, barely anybody would know who he is and he wouldn't be on the currency.

We still are unless Trump sinks that as well.

We should give /pol the idea they should campaign to have Trump put himself on the money, it's a win-win, we'd all be laughing so hard

I never actually thought about it.
Trump might actually ditch that plan and not let it go through. If anyone would be the one to do it, it would be him.

I fucking love Trump so much. I hope me makes himself emperor and reigns forever.

Let's have it so that it almost happens but doesn't, to piss them off even more.

But they're extremely important politicians, no?

It's not like they're putting just any random President on the bills. It's people who had a great impact on the country. Though to be quite honest I have no idea who the people on the 50 and 2 dollar notes are.

Nice flag, retard.

Man, I hate both Trump and /pol, but the idea of putting a living meme in US currency, it's almost as good as putting pepe on it.

Yeah, pretty much.
The $2 bill person is Thomas Jefferson.
The $50 bill person is Ulysses Grant, commander of the Union forces during the Civil War and later a (less successful) President.

The $10 bill is the most aesthetic, and Alexander Hamilton is based as fuck.

The $2 bill is fucking hideous and I hate getting them. Good thing they're basically non-existent when it comes to actual circulation of money.

The $2 bill has had the same design since 1929, the same year bills in their current size were introduced.

The $1 bill still has a similar design. The two haven't been changed because no one's going to counterfeit them.

Oh wow, I wouldn't have recognized that as Jefferson.

Well, there you have it. Two extremely important figures in the shaping of the United States. A founding father, and a commander for the winning side of the Civil War.

Why did the $2 bill never catch on? I haven't gotten one in literal years.
In Europe the 2 Euro coin is extremely common. I got them constantly.

Hmmmmm. I would say that it fulfills a similar function to the $1 bill, but Wikipedia says
>$2 bills are seldom seen in circulation as a result of banking policies with businesses which has resulted in low production numbers due to lack of demand.

>George Washington
He's the father of our fucking country, he belongs on the money

>Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson burns in hell for his crimes and nobody uses 2's anyway

>Abe Lincoln
He's the reason we still have a god damn country. He stays

>Alexander Hamilton
If you dont think the guy that created the fucking treasury and the central bank belongs on our money I dont know what to tell you

>Andrew Jackson
While he personally would be disgusted with being on paper currency issued by a central bank, it triggers the fuck out of SJW's and Indians. He stays.

>Grant
Based. He stays

>Ben Franklin
Inventor, author, diplomat, puss hound. He stays.

>Jefferson burns in hell for his crimes
please redpill me on what you mean by this
t. slept through u.s. history

What about Aunt Jemima? What did she do to warrant replacing Jackson on the 20?

She led the slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. While indeed an admirable part of American history, I'm still not sure whether it'd be currency-worthy. If we must have a woman on the $20 bill, I'd say Susan B Anthony or Abigail Adams would be far better choices.

I thought it was a common thing to put politicians on money for most countries.

Although back where I used to live, they put national treasures and heroes on bills.

Jefferson was an opportunistic, power hingry sack of shit who fellated himself over the french revolution so much he was blind to it's ideological failings. He was jealous of Washington's support of and relationship with Hamilton to the point that during the end of Wash's second term, Jefferson started telling newspapers to print that Wash was "senile" and "losing his sensibilities", which was the only only reason he would ever support hamilton's federalism over jacksonian democracy. Washington fucking DIED not on speaking terms with Jefferson.

She doesnt, dont get me wrong. But Jackson would fucking hate being on money, so theres some slight comfort there. If we were really going to replace him, a suitable replacement would be either FDR, Eisenhower, or fuck it, even Adams.

Eisenhower would be a perfect choice for replacing Jackson.

In fact, I really wish it would happen. Ike was fucking based.

>tfw we just put politicians on our money
>we used to be like that

We're going full retard now.

It was, Americans I think have tended to be more conservative than most other countries with their currency in that there's tons of it circulating around the world so consistency was a practical issue in allowing it to keep it's role as THE global currency in the second half of the 20th century. It may not be as important now that electronic mediums are the way any significant reserve of currency is held, but even if back then there was such a thing as treasury bonds and cheques, cold hard cash was indispensable for a lot of things.

Our currency on the other hand has been very diverse, we currently have women, artists, an Aztec tlatoani and only a single guy who was a sitting president amongst them. In all fairness they are all uncontroversially currency worthy although we are probably missing a revolucionario in there.

Then again our first run of paper currency used just abstract characters, pictured was commonly called the "gipsy girl", it circulated until 1970.

When will this meme end?

It was put on there to distance ourselves from the atheism of the Soviets, and has stayed on there because of ceremonial deism.

Someday they'll put Obama's face on a roll of toilet paper. :^)

Well, we have national fauna on our bills.

But it's ok, they're less beastly than our politicians anyway

>Poland
>we wuz kangs