People,

There are separate movements right now in the Senate and the House to put Ronald Reagan on the $10 bill. This is, in a word, stupid. But I don't think it's stupid just because he was an affable old man who just happened to be one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States. No, I think it's just dumb to put anyone who was recently alive on money.

Here's why - lots of people hate Reagan. He wasn't president that long ago and there are still plenty of people smarting from his escalation of the Cold War, the jobs they lost because of his shoddy economics and ENORMOUS defense budget (including the Star Wars missile defense(which was stupid)) and the friends they had who died because of his refusal to address the AIDS epidemic until 1987. In short, everyone needs to use $10 bills and they don't necessarily want to be looking at someone who ruined their lives.

That's why money features dead guys from long ago. I mean, who has a beef with (or even knows anything about) Alexander Hamilton? I mean, Aaron Burr was no huge fan, but he's been dead forever too. People want their money to feature men/women who through the benefit of history have become caricatures of real human beings.

However, if this movement to put Reagan on my money escalates I promise to start a countermovement whereby we lobby for Pauly Shore to be on the $50.