He also paid off America's debt.
Good for him.
Now EVERYBODY who feels so ###ing bad for the Indians, like I tell my nephews/nieces, get the #### off the land you’re on, sell everything, give the proceeds to a reservation and live there among them or SHUT THE #### UP!!
Kinda like the way that the Fed has consistently managed the Dollar to erode its value while ensuring that their fellow bankers, or at least those at the top of the banking industry, are protected and can live off of the churn.
Only President to ever PAY OFF THE DEBT, and it was done simply by casting the Money Changers from the Temple.
A giant among men and certainly among presidents. What foolish sh!t!
If Jackson hadn’t defeated the British in New Orleans the U.S. wouldn’t exist.
The U.S. was a lot closer to falling than people realize now.
Except he didn’t. You might look at my book on this, esp. the first chapter, “Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction.”
1) Jackson delegated his Treas. Sec. Levi Woodbury to set up his OWN, Democrat-crony-controlled national bank. So much for shutting down the “Central Bank.” Jackson just didn’t like that he couldn’t control it.
2) The BUS was supported at the local and state level overwhelmingly.
3) Yah, he paid off the debt-—thanks to the tariff of abominations that imposed hugely high duties on the south. Oh, and land sales-—a traditional Whig policy from the beginning. Except Jackson sought to shut off all land sales by forcing farmers to pay gold-—something 90% of them couldn’t do.
4) He ignored a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Indian Tribes to relocate them in order to allow his cronies to steal their land. Yeah, a real champion of the Constitution there.
5) The evidence is that Jackson did NOT cause the Panic of 1837 as has been charged, but not for lack of trying. Between killing the Bank of the United States, putting all the money in the hands of his crony friends in the “Pet” banks, the Specie Circular, Jackson did enough to destroy most economies.
In short, one of the worst presidents ever. Government grew steadily during his “small government” term, both in absolute and in relative terms. There is not one thing I can say to recommend Old Hickory.
Jackson’s legacy doesn’t fit with the ruling elite’s agenda so they want to keep the people ignorant by taking his picture off of US currency.