Eric Schneiderman Quotes
If the Treasury Department should not remove Hamilton from the $10 bill, what should they do? The answer is fairly simple: Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
Schneiderman, Eric T. "Keep Hamilton on the $10 Bill." Medium, 26 June 2015.
Jackson ignored the decision of the Supreme Court and forced at bayonet point the Indians in the South East to leave their land and relocate to Oklahoma in what has been known as “the trail of tears”.
When the general retired, he took a position on Wall Street for which some claimed he was unqualified.
President Andrew Jackson was the first President who went after them. The mechanism of these men has been bribes, much more common in early and middle America than today where campaign contributions are a legalized way of the wealthy having more influence on the control of the country. The other way was by the control of the money supply, the markets and banking. Jackson would not go along with allowing a small number of very wealthy bankers to control the monetary policy of the country. In modern times, there are a number of left and right wingers who see the private Federal Reserve Bank and its secrecy as an example of what Roosevelt was referring to,
At the time any private bank could issue their own money. Private sector bankers thought it outrageous that the Congress should consider trampling on their rights to issue money. The solution that was finally adopted some years later was to use the Federal Reserve Board to control the money supply. It is independent of the Congress and the President but members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Our system, like no other system, is a compromise where neither the Government or the Private Sector controls the American money supply.
FDR even admitted that very wealthy men and corporations controlled most U. S. governments including the administration of his own political party. Roosevelt did a great deal to improve the situation but by the latter years of the 20th century, private financial entities gained back much of the influence and control. The result was the Meltdown of 2008 and the Great Recession, where another set of regulations and laws (Dodd-Frank) was made law by the Obama Administration. However, the financial corporations still had enormous political influence as a result of unlimited campaign contributions to politicians and unlimited lobbying.
Crockett has been a major supporter of Andrew Jackson. However, after Jackson became president Crockett broke with him over some of his new policies and practices. For example, he disapproved of the Indian Removal Bill, which allowed for forced expulsion of the Cherokees and other “civilized tribes” from the southeastern states. Indian removal went along with the unfair treatment of squatters, who were expelled from the public domain and were barred from securing land that they had settled and improved. Jackson supporters castigated Crockett for his “disloyalty” and Crockett was equally critical of them for going along with Jackson like a pack of dogs without daring what his policies were. This quotation was made in this context.
Although the Jacksonian Democrats were the political successors to the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans, Jefferson found Jackson wanting as a potential president. Although Jefferson had made this statement during the 1824 Election, it did not become public until the Election of 1828 — Jackson’s second term. At that time Edward Coles, Formerly James Madison’s Secretary, disclosed the quotation.
Eric Tradd Schneiderman is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 65th Attorney General of New York from 2011 until his resignation in May 2018. Schneiderman, a member of the Democratic Party, spent ten years in the New York State Senate. In May 2018, Schneiderman resigned his position as Attorney General after The New Yorker reported that four women had accused him of physical abuse.
