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Who is your favorite president from 1881-1929?
Who is your favorite president from 1881-1929?
Who is your favorite president from 1881-1929?
Who is yours?
That's an easy one. Calvin Coolidge. He was the most Laissez Faire president that we ever had. When Calvin Coolidge died while in office one news reporter asked, "How could you tell?"
Calvin Coolidge deliberately accomplished the least amount of things while in office. It would be wonderful to have a president like that again.
Probably Teddy Roosevelt, he stands a few heads taller than all the rest in my opinion.
Coolidge helped pave the way to send the US into the Great Depression. Restrictive tarriffs, limiting immigration, minimizing government and letting the free market go unregulated for the sake of current profit.... But gosh...things were so great during his tenure! (hmm. Sounds like GWB, doesnt it?)
Does Calvin Coolidge Deserve a Reassessment? - The Daily Beast
Right you are grasshopper.
National Parks, Panama Canal, anti-trust, anti-Gilded wing of the GOP..
an end to 9-YO miners with missing toes and fingers, the backbone of the GOP monopolies.
Progress--ive policies that fixed the gerry-mandered Senate (17th amendment)..
The 16th that scofflaws in the GOP still hate.
And the foundation for ACA.
TR was truly a forward-looking President.
He asked the question, what should it be like in 100 years, just as Lincoln did.
He knew how much his own gilded wing would fight insurance for all .
Coolidge helped pave the way to send the US into the Great Depression. Restrictive tarriffs, limiting immigration, minimizing government and letting the free market go unregulated for the sake of current profit.... But gosh...things were so great during his tenure! (hmm. Sounds like GWB, doesnt it?)
Does Calvin Coolidge Deserve a Reassessment? - The Daily Beast
Money speculators are the reason we are in trouble today.Now money speculators is fine with me..
Money speculators are the reason we are in trouble today.
Remember Newt's infomercial on when Romney came to town?
Romney started that **** in the 80's with the paper mills in the northeast, stealing pension funds in leveraged buyouts.
Someone should do that to your Military pension so you know how it feels, how the Detroit Police and Fire Depts. feel .
Without the 17th, both the Senate and House would be the same, and both would be gerry-mandered.I disagree with the 17th amendment, but that is okay.
The only problem with the 16th is that Americans are a bunch of whiny ******s and selfish turds when it comes to paying taxes.I also think the 16th was a mistake
There is a lot more to Detroit than money speculators, but they sure didn't help.
Without the 17th, both the Senate and House would be the same, and both would be gerry-mandered.
Obviously, you're a closeted Gerry-mandered GOP coming out of the closet.
The only problem with the 16th is that Americans are a bunch of whiny ******s and selfish turds when it comes to paying taxes.
Reagan's lasting gift to the Nation .
What would you know about Detroit?
How many other Municipalities in the USA are on the precipice of Detroit?
Since Chattanooga is close to you, I'm sure you're all in with the Liars Corker, Haslam and Norquist.
Volkswagon had to correct their lies on a daily basis .
Doesn't sound like GWB, actually. The Depression was the fault of central banking (the Fed).
You mean lack of regulation of the banking industry? Sounds similar to 2008 to me. It wasn't only that though.
Right you are grasshopper.
National Parks, Panama Canal, anti-trust, anti-Gilded wing of the GOP..
An end to 9-YO miners with missing toes and fingers, the backbone of the GOP monopolies.
Progress--ive policies that fixed the gerry-mandered Senate (17th amendment)..
The 16th that scofflaws in the GOP still hate.
And the foundation for ACA.
TR was truly a forward-looking President.
He asked the question, what should it be like in 100 years, just as Lincoln did.
He knew how much his own gilded wing would fight insurance for all .
I admire TR. If he was around today there would be none of this too big to fail. I disagree with the 17th amendment, but that is okay. I also think the 16th was a mistake, remember the debate back then was it would only apply to the top 1-3% of the population. Like Thomas Jefferson, I do not believe a man should be taxed by the sweat of his brow. Now money speculators is fine with me. I do not have to agree 100% with any presidents policies to realize who was great, who was average and who is way below average. Heck I would settle for an average president since 2000. TR would be a great bonus.
Not sure about that. Trust busting was natural and appropriate to the economic conditions of the early 20th century, but these days national governments sponsor mega corporations to keep their economies competitive on the international scale. On the other hand, Roosevelt probably would have imposed far greater demands on the rich in exchange for this privilege.
That stuff is okay, but truly embracing the US has expansionist and basically imperial, beyond the continental US- is what really put the country in a position to flourish in the 20th century. He told a people that were basically isolationist that the world was becoming more connected than they had ever imagined, and if they wanted to live the good life, they better start getting involved throughout the globe.
You are wise to assess that TR was an imperialist, IMHO.
And that the USA would not be what it is today without being an Imperialist 20th Century.
How soon we all forget where all the oil, minerals and riches came from.
Didn't we invade Mexico in the 1920's to take their oil ?
The only problem with the 16th is that Americans are a bunch of whiny ******s and selfish turds when it comes to paying taxes.
Reagan's lasting gift to the Nation .