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To: Texas Eagle
Coolidge for President!

Although I'm likely among the older FReepers, I did miss out on the Calvin Coolidge administration. Everything I've read about it reveals that "Silent Cal" was likely the very best president of the 20th Century, yes, even edging out Ronald Reagan in that regard. It is my understanding that RWR did have a very high opinion of Coolidge whose thoughts on government and taxation are just as valid today as they were in 1924.

Unions are inherently evil.

Calvin Coolidge knew it and we Conservatives recognize that Marxism and unionism form a devil's alliance against freedom and liberty.
5 posted on 02/26/2011 5:27:30 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: re_nortex
Unions are inherently evil.

As in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

6 posted on 02/26/2011 5:32:46 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: re_nortex
Coolidge prided himself on saying only what had to be said at the time and really didn't expand on things.

He busted the police strike, but ultimately not the union, while he was Governor of Massachusetts.

Later on as President he set the stage for the Great Depression (which was made much worse by both Hoover and Roosevelt).

I spent some time this evening going through a number of his speeches and couldn't drag anything out of them that said he'd support Right to Work Laws.

BTW, in a nation where every person is a member of the people's militia and should be provided a weapon through conveniently located armories, or for home storage, or with tax credits so you could select your own, it seems to me that properly operated, the United States would only need a handful of cops ~ not these enormous paramilitary forces that think they ought to be unionized.

It's time for Conservatives to quit worrying about unions and push back until we get a fully armed and trained people's militia that can make Americans safe in America!

7 posted on 02/26/2011 5:38:14 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: re_nortex
Coolidge was Reagan's hero. He had a fine portrait of President Coolidge retrieved from the archives and displayed prominently in the White House. That was back when we had an American president.
13 posted on 02/26/2011 6:49:37 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: re_nortex

Amen...Coolidge was the best.

We have the trifecta of disaster looming in our country the combination of 1919, 1929 and 1939...

And the result will be the same...progressives are just never happy until millions suffer and die.

Truly a twisted mentally ill bunch they are.


31 posted on 02/27/2011 6:23:36 AM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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