(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Dollars bills signed by Malerba and Yellen are now in circulation [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-23 The cashier rung me up for $4.08. I had a $5 bill and a quarter ready, thinking the total was gonna be more like $5.08. So I gave her the five and the quarter anyway, and good, she gave me back a $1 bill, series 2021, B1899XXXXA signed by United States Treasurer Lynn Roberge Malerba and Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen. That was a couple of hours ago. It was only the second bill so signed that I’d seen ever. Last week I got the first one, don’t remember what the transaction was that I got it in. I took a photo of it and spent it at Meijer the next day. I forgot to put that bill on Where’s George, but just the same I should censor the serial number on the photo. Gradually more and more holdovers from the horrendous Trump maladministration are going away. Louis DeJoy is still damaging the Post Office, having been put in there by Trump for the express purpose of taking a wrecking ball to that institution. Remember this dork (right)? Donald Trump looked on with envy, as Melania won’t touch his hand even wearing gloves. Photo by AP/REX/Shutterstock (9224878a) But Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, was replaced by President Joe Biden’s pick, Janet Yellen, very early on in President Biden’s presidency. Even so, dollar bills signed by Steven Mnuchin will still be in circulation for many years to come. I think I have four or five bills signed by him in my wallet right now. The bastard even got to sign $2 bills, the 2017As, which I’ve actually seen in circulation. It didn’t help matters that U. S. Treasurer Lynn Malerba wasn’t confirmed until last year. Tradition requires the signatures of both the U. S. Treasurer and the Secretary of the Treasury from the same administration. So that meant that bills signed by Mnuchin and Jovita Carranza continued to be printed even as President Biden began carrying out the responsibilities of the presidency after the neglect of traitor Trump, and even as some of the pro-Trump terrorists who carried out the January 6, 2021 terrorist attack on the U. S. Capitol began to be brought to justice. New $1 bills are printed every year. So there are sure to be series 2022, 2023 and 2024 $1 bills signed by Malerba and Yellen. CORRECTION: The bills printed this year and next will most likely still be series 2021. Obviously $2 bills are printed less frequently, so Malerba and Yellen will get to sign $2 bills only if President Biden is reelected and they stay in their posts in the second term of President Biden’s presidency. So yeah, let’s make sure President Biden gets reelected, so that $2 bills signed by Malerba and Yellen can be printed. Plus also that thing about saving democracy and the world. Meanwhile, we’re still years away from seeing Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. President Barack Obama (D, 2009 — 2017) announced the redesign of the $20 in 2016, but, surprise, surprise, when future classified documents salesman Donald Trump won the Electoral College that year despite losing the popular vote, the redesign of the $20 was put on hold indefinitely. Mock-up of a $20 bill with Harriet Tubman on it. When President Biden started his presidency, redesigning currency was not his top priority, of course, but he did command the relevant people in his administration to reprioritize the change. Understandably, some black people are ambivalent about putting a former slave on currency. When Tubman escaped, the former owner posted a $100 bounty (more than $3,000 in today’s dollars) for her capture. The $40,000 bounty is a myth, the Brodess family wouldn’t have been able to pay that. One scene from the movie Harriet that will stick with me has Eliza Brodess (Jennifer Nettles) crying about runaway slaves, not because they are people who have interacted with her family in meaningful ways, but because her wealth is measured in slaves. That is wrong. No number should ever be placed on the value of a man or a woman. Or maybe we should instead think of putting Tubman on the $20 the same as South Africa putting Nelson Mandela on the rand: the likeness of a person of immeasurable value placed on an item of small finite value. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/23/2188782/-Dollars-bills-signed-by-Malerba-and-Yellen-are-now-in-circulation Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/