Happy Birthday Alexander Hamilton

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[frog_jerk_2004]

Some history from my company's website

Alexander Hamilton

As Secretary of the Treasury in George Washington’s first cabinet, Alexander Hamilton negotiated the first loan obtained by the new government in 1789. The amount was $200,000 issued by The Bank of New York, against which the Treasury drew a series of warrants on the Bank.

[William of Orange]

what about a duel between Dick Cheney and Paul O'Neill?

[frog_jerk_2004]

Or the duel between Zell and Chrissy?

[steplock]

How as today selected as his birthday?

We need more of true Americans to counter the communist, I means "progressive democrat" day for MLK.

[68skylark]

Good post -- thanks. That's why I come here to FR. I never know what I'm going to read, but I always know I'll get a better or deeper understanding of how the country works.

[Valin]

I don't know.


Now there's an answer you don't see very often around here. :-)

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Pistols at dawn?

[RexBeach]

Alex, we hardly knew ye.

[agitator]

Hamilton was also a proponent of central banks. Not a good idea.

[Monterrosa-24]

"With John Jay and James Madison, Hamilton wrote a series of papers (published in book form as The Federalist, 1788) urging the people of New York to ratify the new constitution. "

Ironically, it is Hamilton who provides us many of the best quotes concerning how the Constitution defends the rights of the various states. This is because Hamilton wrote for the audience that feared a too strong government. The States have become weaker now than Hamilton would have imagined.

Hamilton's service in the military can only be described in superlative terms. He was a brave and bold leader of men.

[Protagoras]

First of the big government advocates.

[justshutupandtakeit]

On the contrary Central banking is necessary for a modern economy. If you prefer to live on the island of Yap go right ahead but don't drag the rest of us down with you.

Hamilton's genius assured the success of the United States by establishing the Rule of Law as paramount and laying the basis for industrial capitalism. Fortunately his ideas triumphed over the retrogressive fantasies/delusions of Jefferson.

Hamilton's life-long devotion to the Union provoked a two centuries long attempt to blacken his name and reputation but those who know a little history realize that he was second only to Washington in importance to our founding. He was second to none in theoretic understanding of political economy and the Constitution or love of country for which he gave his life.

[Captain Kirk]

Yap? The U.S. did have a central bank from the destruction of the Second BUS in the 1830s to the Federal Reserve in 1913. Despite some ups and downs, it had a long wave of prosperity and became the leading economic power on the planet (passing by the "central bank" Brits who had a head start).

On the other hand, the U.S. established the Fed in 1913 and less than two deacades later had the worst depression in American history. Try looking at the actual historical record rather than inventing a mythical place called Yap.

[agitator]

Central banking is a cover for organized criminal theft and was an anathema to American life until successively engineered bank panics sufficiently conditioned people who didn't know better to accept them. They have consistently been a miserable failure at their stated goal. Yet another import from the Euroweenies who brought you the original bloody rear end.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

In a sense, that's true.

He didn't expand the government's reach as greatly as Thomas Jefferson, though.

Then again, he was never president, so I guess you can draw your own conclusions.

[Monterrosa-24]

"...he was second only to Washington in importance to our founding...."

I agree but my daughter brought home a Scholastic book fare mini-catalog from her private church-related school and it contained no books on Washington specifically but it had three on Martin Luther King, Jr (none on Booker T. Washington either naturally). It did have a book about heroes of the revolution "including Nathan Hale, Crispus Aticks, Molly Pitcher, and nine others".

[Valin]

Hamilton's life-long devotion to the Union provoked a two centuries long attempt to blacken his name and reputation

Lets just say he was not John Adams favorite person.


That being said, we need to remember these were real people not plaster saints. And many of them had egos that would put John McCain too shame.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

C'mon!

Everyone knows that Molly Pitcher won us that war.

I mean, what did ol' George do, 'cept lead the Continental Army?

(Eye roll.)

[Valin]

Nathan Hale, Crispus Aticks, Molly Pitcher,

Better tell her to watch it! Reading about these people could get her in trouble. :-)