Who is against this ? And why?
I've always been against this kind of thing. Why do we need to change our currency? I remember, as a young boy, encyclopedias and textbooks would have all the currency denominations pictured. We can't be doing that anymore because it changes so often now. We went through my entire childhood without any major change in our currency. I think dollar coins changed and then we had the bicentennial quarters. I don't recall any bills changing... maybe they did and I am not remembering it. But now, it seems like every year or so, we're introducing a new look.
WHY????
Look... We're nearly 20 trillion dollars in debt... We've got people in this country who can't afford to eat... All kinds of major pressing issues we should be addressing... and we're blowing billions of dollars on re-printing our currency every other year. Does anyone have any idea how much it costs to re-tool the dies at the mint, to have new engravings done, to add all these elaborate security features and special inks? How many poor kids could we feed? How much debt could we pay off? It just seems very wasteful and pointless... we don't GET anything from it.