Posted on 08/22/2008 9:50:20 AM PDT by edcoil
The Five Black Presidents of The United States Of America.
Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors.
The presidents names include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.
If the reputation is factual, show the proof. And even if it is true, so what? How does it further the Republican cause?
Dean must be trying to retrieve Bill Clinton's reputation.
Harding was handed a torpid economy that was going through a post WWI inflationary bout. In essence, the economy after 8 years of pummelling from the Wilson progressives, was in horrible shape, similar too the economy that Carter
handed Ronald Reagan in March 1981.
Harding trimmed spending, and reduced taxes across the board. Not even the great one, Ronald Reagan, could pull that one off. The reduced rates and throttled federal spending set the stage for what happened to the economy in the mid-twenties.
If Cox and Roosevelt had won in the election of 1920, and perpetuated the high marginal rates and capital gains rate I don’t believe the economy would have rebounded the way it eventually did in that decade.
Roosevelt was to get his chance in the spring of 1933, and he raised marginal rates and capital gains rates up to a high of 90% and we know what happened....the economy tanked and didn’t recover until WWII. Roosevelt and his progressive minions are responsible for the anemic economic recovery during the thirties.....industrial production didn’t rebound until the forties.
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