Posted on 03/13/2010 6:52:19 PM PST by molybdenum
I don't hate Teddy Roosevelt. I admire his war record, the Great White Fleet, and many of his other achievements! But, it should be obvious to anyone that he was a Social Progressive and would be the political enemy to Conservatives of today.
Why do you refuse to acknowlwedege that fact!?
Liar!
The type of Progressive Teddy Roosevelt was is a polar opposite to today’s progressive.
Today’s Progressive is nothing short of an all out one world government communist.
Trying to Make Teddy Roosevelt into one of those types is fighting words.
Progressive Republicans Theodore Roosevelt and W. H. Taft brought:
Governmental control of corporations and “Trust-busting”
Siding with strikers in the 1902 coal strike
Minimum wage
Mandatory 40 hour work week
Pure, Food and Drug Act
Federal Reserve Act
Government involvement in conservation of Natural Resources, requiring corporate interests to be balanced with nature
16th Amendment - Income Tax - Feb 1913
17th Amendment - Direct Election of Senators - May 1913 [begun before Taft's term ended]
Recognition of Labor Unions to go on strike and collective bargain
The Bull moose party platform called for "Required Health Insurance in Industry."
How can you call me a liar when I provide facts and you only give conjecture regarding the nature of Socialists, now versus a hundred years ago?
get flushed!
A royal one!
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