Measuring President Reagan’s Face Value

Re “GOP Has Got to Get Off the Dime,” Commentary, Dec. 9:

If the Republicans are so intent on Ronald Reagan’s face gracing our currency, might I suggest that they plaster his image on the billion-dollar bill, since his conservative fiscal policies rang up so many of them? That way, the people he cared about the most will be able to enjoy them while they trickle down on the rest of us. I suspect we’ll be looking for our current president’s image either on the trillion-dollar bill or our local post office walls. I know which way I’m leaning.

Craig N. Simmons

Granada Hills

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To my knowledge, no one objected when John F. Kennedy replaced Benjamin Franklin on the 50-cent coin in the mid-1960s. Although not a president, Franklin was a great American who deserved this honor, yet with no controversy he was removed and replaced with a different great American. Who deserves the honor of being on one of our coins more than the greatest American president of the 20th century, Reagan? It’s time to put politics and the “right-wing political ploy” rhetoric aside and give Reagan the recognition and honor he deserves.

Michael C. Bury

Anaheim Hills

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Rather than having Reagan replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s image on the 10-cent piece, why don’t we do the appropriate thing and create a new currency to honor the 40th president’s real fiscal legacy, trickle-down economics and deficit spending? Like say, the negative $100 bill?

Jim Mallon

San Luis Obispo