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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 11917, member: 824&quot;]<b>Can&#039;t we all get get get along....</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I am pround call myself a right wing fiscal conservative and I would love to buy my fellow liberal friends (though they don&#039;t admit they are liberal...instead they use terms like progressive or moderate) an adult beverage to discuss politics with you.&nbsp; Usually us Republicans have to buy since most Democrats believe we don&#039;t pay enough taxes and we need to &quot;invest&quot; in the children, seniors (quick, get me a tissue as I cry) and the future of more government programs.&nbsp; But that is another discussion so I will keep my post to the matter at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see the hostility that is going to arise when the discussion comes up for Presidents to grace our coinage and currency will NEVER go away.&nbsp; I wish I was around to see the Southerners go crazy when Lincoln first graced the penny.&nbsp; I am sure they went ballistic as I would if Bill Clinton were to be found in my loose change.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>With that said...all this is the reason why dead or living people should NOT be on coins and currency.&nbsp; Maybe...if they have been dead for 100 years so history can disect them, but NO MORE!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Lady Liberty can be designed in so many beautiful designs that even Teddy Roosevelt would be pround.&nbsp; If any President that understood beauty in our coinage was this President! </p><p><br /></p><p>I am writing to my representatives with full color pictures of our past coinage.&nbsp; Hopefully, they may hit a nerve as they &quot;reach across the aisle&quot; for a bi-partisan coinage design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until then...before you raise your voice, reinforce your argument![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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