Andrew Jackson should be removed from the $20 bill.

Hello, and again, It is I, Keenan Harris. Before I start, I would first like to thank my opponent for accepting my challenge and posting his first construct so punctually. You have my gratitude. I would like to start my argument by simply stating. We have no more commonly used commodity based currency. Even our current coinage is still, what my opponent would call, fiat money. So, like my opponent said, we would have to create a totally new, "commodity-backed" currency as opposed to the fiat currency we have today. But this makes no sense however for you did say that, "Fiat money represents the force of a tyrant, not an exchange of values between good common men" since this statement has no source cited to it, it must be an opinion. So not only is my opponent calling our current system of money tyrannical, but he is also saying that Andrew Jackson's pecuniary ideology was ethical and echoed "an exchange of values between honest men" which helps my side in saying that Andrew Jackson was the people's president. But to entertain my opponent's ridiculous claim, the cost of making a printing machine plus the initial cost of the raw material that would be used in the machine would make no sense. Not only would this cost an obscene amount, but in this economy we cannot afford things as frivolous as this. Our currency is fine the way it is and changing it now would not be logical in our current recession. We would have to hire new artists to make a new design, hire economists to find a commodity that is not only easy to acquire, but that has a high material value, after all this the cost of changing even the face on the $20 bill would be just insane! It's better to keep things the way they are and not dishonor any presidents by taking them off currency. Another point made by my opponent was that Andrew Jackson hated centralized banks, and that he went so far as to DESTROY the Bank of the United States. And I could not agree more with this statement. This bank of the United States was at the time favoring the Northern States over the southern states in the distribution of taxpayer dollars. This was making the south angrier and angrier and then when Congress passed extra Tariffs on imported goods, John C. Calhoun, from North Carolina, wrote a doctrine of Nullification and threatened to secede from the Union! Faced with an extremely hard choice, Andrew Jackson had to get rid of the national bank to preserve the Union of the united states. So not only was Jackson able to deal with a corrupt bank, but he faced the obstacle of preserving the Union even before Lincoln! After all this evidence is put forth it is obvious that getting rid of the national bank was the right thing to do. It was either get rid of a corrupt bank, or loose the foremost agrarian state at the time, and who knows how many would have followed after that. So, as you can see, Jackson really had no choice but to get rid of the National Bank. On a side note to the previous point... The National Bank did not reflect American ideals. It was a government owned corporation and in this sense, The National Bank was a communist business. Americans rely on the economic ideology of capitalism over anything else and the National bank was getting in the way of progress. Jackson seeing this, had another reason for getting rid of it because he knew that in our future America needs to be more capitalist, and getting rid of the national bank was a stepping stone in our history as one of the best things that has ever happened to capitalism. My final word on this particular point is that Jackson actually did not "destroy" the national bank. He simply did not renew the bank's charter so the bank slowly, but surely, closed down, without any harm to the economy, or the employees of the national bank. So do we want to dishonor the most loved president in American history by stripping him from America's most used currency? Or do we want to leave things the way they are. In the word's of Bert Lance "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Why should we fix the $20 bill, if it "ain't" broke.