{"id":51966,"date":"2015-07-28T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/you-cannot-serve-both-god-and-mammon.html"},"modified":"2015-07-28T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:40:13","slug":"you-cannot-serve-both-god-and-mammon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/you-cannot-serve-both-god-and-mammon.html","title":{"rendered":"You cannot serve both God and Mammon"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I would rather see a woman put on the $20 rather than the $10, the folk on this talk show (including my favorite Not-a-Historian, David Barton, Dolt) seem profoundly outraged<\/i> at the near-sacrilege<\/i> of removing Alexander Hamilton and, maybe (or maybe not) the Treasury Building from the sawbuck, all in favor of a "politically expedient" woman. It's practically blasphemy,<\/i> and a revisionist attempt to wipe out our 2+ century reverence for our economic system that has been a tribute in print ever since that dark day when Aaron Burr slew the heroic Alexander Hamilton! Eek!<\/p>\n

(Note for all actual historians: Hamilton didn't get put on the $10 bill until 1929, as part of the "small-size" note Series of 1928. Prior denizens on large-size $10 notes included Andrew Jackson, Michael Hillegas, Lewis & Clark, Thomas Hendricks, Ben Franklin, Daniel Webster, Salmon P Chase, and Abe LIncoln.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nBarton: Adding A Woman To The $10 Bill Would ‘Denigrate’ The Treasury Department And Our Entire Economic System<\/a><\/span>
\nLast month, the Treasury Department announced that a woman would be featured on the $10 bill when it is redesigned in 2020 and David Barton was so outraged that he brought the National Review’s Qu\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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While I would rather see a woman put on the $20 rather than the $10, the folk on this talk show (including my favorite Not-a-Historian, David Barton, Dolt) seem profoundly outraged at the near-sacrilege of removing Alexander Hamilton and, maybe (or maybe not) the Treasury Building from the sawbuck, all in favor of a "politically … Continue reading “You cannot serve both God and Mammon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27892,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/veeps-who-made-a-difference-for-better-or-worse.html","url_meta":{"origin":51966,"position":0},"title":"Veeps who made a difference (for better or worse)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-May-12 10:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For all the moaning and bitching from various vice presidents over the centuries (\"Whatever became of Hubert?\"), sometimes they do make a difference.The Biden \"gaffe\" over gay marriage is one of the items here. 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