First Alexander Hamilton gets sucker plunked by Aaron Burr’s bullet, dies … and now this?

For a guy that only laid the foundation for the American economy — the likes of which is unprecedented as a wealth and business machine in the world’s history — he’s kind of getting a raw deal.

We’re talking about the June decision to replace the former founding father, United States Coast Guard creator, U.S. Mint establisher, financial soothsayer and first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury on the American ten dollar bill — the likes of which have been a happy home for his visage for more than 80 years.

According to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, he’ll be substituted with a portrait of a woman, to reflect the changing times and recent American history. That’s all fine and dandy, and should be done. Just not the ten. The twenty.

Why?

Because Andrew Jackson was a “Papa Oscar Sierra” — that’s why. His nickname was “Indian Killer” and “Sharp Knife”. He was also a wealthy slave owner (sadly, this would disqualify most every person depicted on American currency, but still) and, probably, a sociopath. This from the website Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice:

” … President Jefferson had appointed [Jackson] to appropriate Creek and Cherokee lands. In his brutal military campaigns against Indians, Andrew Jackson recommended that troops systematically kill Indian women and children after massacres in order to complete the extermination. The Creeks lost 23 million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama, paving the way for cotton plantation slavery. His frontier warfare and subsequent ‘negotiations’ opened up much of the southeast U.S. to settler colonialism.”

Anyway, the issue was brought up at Wednesday night’s Republican debate, and the question of what woman should be portrayed on American currency was served up to be devoured.

Quite frankly, the answers are pretty shocking.

This from the BBC:

Mr. Bush’s choice drew applause.

“I would go with Ronald Reagan’s partner, Margaret Thatcher,” he said, noting it was “probably illegal” and unlikely to happen because she is not American.

But he added: “A strong leader is what we need in the White House, and she certainly was a strong leader that restored the United Kingdom into greatness.”

The governor of Ohio, John Kasich, went even further off the deep end, somehow hog-tying Christianity and religion with his answer while also choosing to outsource the face. He went with Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa? Margaret Thatcher? What the hell are these guys talking about? Can we please put Americans on American money? Is that so much to ask?

Thankfully, Rosa Parks name came up in the discussion, however, it might’ve been the lone woman in the debate who won the day when it came to this heated issue.

Here’s Carly Fiorina in living color:

BBC