> Besides, I wouldn't mind having a more modern but still great President on the front of a bill. It'll at least give me something to tell the kids and grandkids when they ask who that man was, and I won't have to break out the history book.

If you don't know who Andrew Jackson is -- the guy currently on the $20 -- without consulting a history book, that is a sign that you desperately need to consult many history books.

Anyway, Andrew Jackson gets to stay on the basis that he kicked a hell of a lot of ass. Not to knock Reagan, but when an assassin tried to kill Ol' Hickory, he didn't just take a bullet and spend some time in the hospital: he beat the assassin with his cane. That just embodies the U.S. spirit in so many ways.

If we're redoing currency, why not get Grant's sorry ass off the $50? Reagan would be vastly superior to Grant, who may have helped us win the Civil War but was a terrible president. Also, considering he wrote the Declaration of Independence, we should put Jefferson on a good bill (who uses $2 bills?). Let's also get Madison on one, for helping get the Constitution written. Yeah, I know their presidencies were fairly unremarkable, but we've got Franklin and Hamilton on notes now and neither were even president, and their accomplishments certainly are outshined by Madison and Jefferson, though with Franklin it's a close call.

My suggestions: ditch Grant for Jefferson or Madison, and move Hamilton off the $10 and onto the $2, replacing him with Jefferson/Madison. If we wanted to get rid of Hamilton altogether, I wouldn't be too pissed, though before we added Reagan I'd suggest adding FDR, for saving the world back in the 1940s.

We can get Reagan on money by ditching JFK from the fifty cent piece and putting him on one of those. Or, better yet, we could ditch whichever chick we have on the dollar coin this week and put Reagan on there, and hope we can actually get a $1 coin in circulation, since it's a great idea.

Stephen