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Reagan was actually pretty bad. The 1980's is when the rich got rich and the middle class started to disappear again. Clinton put a stop to it but bush picked up where reagan left off.
Reagan was actually pretty bad. The 1980's is when the rich got rich and the middle class started to disappear again. Clinton put a stop to it but bush picked up where reagan left off.
The middle class benefited from the prosperous '80s along with the rich. The average wealth of the middle class increased.
The rich were actually paying more taxes, by percent, by the end of Reagan's presidency than they were before.
Washington. By far. He took a ragtag bunch of soldiers and forged a nation against internal and external forces that would make a paranoid weep with satisfaction. And he helped forge the laws that would keep the nation free.
Washington was the best President ever, during one of the worst times ever, for the United States of America.
Washington. By far. He took a ragtag bunch of soldiers and forged a nation against internal and external forces that would make a paranoid weep with satisfaction. And he helped forge the laws that would keep the nation free.
Washington was the best President ever, during one of the worst times ever, for the United States of America.
So Washington raising the army to put down the Whiskey Rebellion makes him the greatest president ever? A great number of people point to his leadership against the Whiskey Rebellion as one of his major failures as president.
Washington grades high on my list, not because of what he did but simply because he was not a member of any political party.
The first, only, and last!
Washington grades high on my list, not because of what he did but simply because he was not a member of any political party.
The first, only, and last!
And there's a large, long and vast historical debate about this as well. While Washington was not the member of any political parties in the sense that Obama is a member of the Democratic Party, it is indeed true that Washington was a partisan president. He served at a time in which the first party system became ever more entrenched despite the chagrin of the founding generation that largely eschewed such political factions. His jointly authored farewell (along with Federalist Alexander Hamilton) statement is a dig at the Democratic-Republicans. Washington clearly sided with the Federalists.
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