Who Are The Five Worst Presidents In American History?

[TheParser]

2. he closed down the mental institutions

Yeah!

That's why we have all these horrible entities going around sucker punching people and murdering subway passengers.

 

[Robert W]

I'd say Trump, Reagan, Hover, harden, Buchanan.

Literally anyone that pushed loserterianism at some level. I'd argue reagan in some ways as 1. He started teh flood and 2. he closed down the mental institutions and 3. started us down the path towards the rich taking all the welth.
Hover, harden for loserterism
Buchanan for not having the balls to pull us away from civil war
Trump for trying to over throw the government and dividing the hell out of our country. Hopefully we don't end up in another civil war.

Reagan was forced by law to close the institutions and it was only in CA. Pat Brown was the Governor who signed that law. The Rich do not TAKE our wealth. They offer top rated things that you gladly want to own. I have long noticed when Democrats complain about the rich they exclude the famous movie stars. Reagan established for all time that the Feds could do all they had to do for less of our money. Buchanan did not promote the Civil war. Lincoln promoted it. Trump never tried to over throw the government. Biden was sworn in per law on time. Trump attempted to send troops to protect the capitol yet was turned down by Democrats.

 

[Robert W]

Yeah!

That's why we have all these horrible entities going around sucker punching people and murdering subway passengers.

It is amazing how Democrats do not take credit but eagerly assign blame for historical events. Reagan for instance was following Governor Pat Brown's law to empty the institutions holding the mental ill. A lot of citizens were angry that CA had so many ill being held who did not appear to get decent care. But it was Democrats and not Reagan that changed the law.

 

[Dayton3]

I understand that to Democrats he was their kind of guy. But at his time, Democrats were very racist. I allege they still are but try to hide it.
FDR also set things up for Pearl Harbor to be attacked.

How?

 

[Robert W]

How?

Are you asking about Pearl Harbor?

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[PoliticalChic]

I'd say Trump, Reagan, Hover, harden, Buchanan.

Literally anyone that pushed loserterianism at some level. I'd argue reagan in some ways as 1. He started teh flood and 2. he closed down the mental institutions and 3. started us down the path towards the rich taking all the welth.
Hover, harden for loserterism
Buchanan for not having the balls to pull us away from civil war
Trump for trying to over throw the government and dividing the hell out of our country. Hopefully we don't end up in another civil war.

Let's check, while you try to pry your foot out of your mouth......

• Under Trump gasoline was about $1.80 a gallon….but you voted against that
• Under Trump we were energy independent….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump 80% of illegal alien were kept in Mexico….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump inflation was 1.4%….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump crime was far lower, as were homicides….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump Iran was kept in a box….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump America had an airbase near both China and Iran….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump our President wasn’t on China’s payroll….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump cartels weren’t free to operate….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump government didn’t favor racism, CRT, gender mutilation….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump we didn’t have confiscatory tax policy….but you voted against that.
• Under Trump we didn’t have a government working with big tech to end free speech….but you voted against that.
• 
  
• You have proven to be one of the America-hating 5th columnists. Proud?

 

[PoliticalChic]

I'd say Trump, Reagan, Hover, harden, Buchanan.

Literally anyone that pushed loserterianism at some level. I'd argue reagan in some ways as 1. He started teh flood and 2. he closed down the mental institutions and 3. started us down the path towards the rich taking all the welth.
Hover, harden for loserterism
Buchanan for not having the balls to pull us away from civil war
Trump for trying to over throw the government and dividing the hell out of our country. Hopefully we don't end up in another civil war.

I'll throw in another lesson for free.....you need it...


“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us​

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan



Reaganomics - Wikipedia





And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.” http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm

“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.” Front page | U.S. Department of the Treasury

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

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While the ranks of the wealthy quickly multiplied, middle-class investors also entered the stock market in rapidly growing numbers. The creation by Congress in 1978 of the 401(k) tax-deferred retirement plan provided new incentives for workers to invest their savings in the stock market (often through mutual funds) rather than relying on company-funded pensions for retirement. The 401(k) led to a kind of democratization of Wall Street, as the percentage of American households owning some stake in the stock market—either directly or through mutual funds—shot quickly from 15.9% in 1983 to 29.6% in 1989.23 Thus the great bull market of the 1980s created more wealth, for more American families, than any previous boom in history.

Investment Company Institute, "Equity Ownership in America, 2005," http://www.ici.org/pdf/rpt_05_equity_owners.pdf,

The Reagan Era Learning Guide: Citations​

Shmoop’s sources cited for The Reagan Era

www.shmoop.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

I'd say Trump, Reagan, Hover, harden, Buchanan.

Literally anyone that pushed loserterianism at some level. I'd argue reagan in some ways as 1. He started teh flood and 2. he closed down the mental institutions and 3. started us down the path towards the rich taking all the welth.
Hover, harden for loserterism
Buchanan for not having the balls to pull us away from civil war
Trump for trying to over throw the government and dividing the hell out of our country. Hopefully we don't end up in another civil war.

.....and this is where your head explodes.....



1. America’s greatest depression fighter was Warren Gamaliel Harding. An Ohio senator when he was elected president in 1920, he followed Woodrow Wilson who got America into World War I, ...Harding inherited the mess, in particular the post-World War I depression – almost as severe, from peak to trough, as the Great Contraction from 1929 to 1933, that FDR inherited and prolonged. Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway, in their book Out of Work (1993), noted that the magnitude of the 1920 depression "exceeded that for the Great Depression of the following decade for several quarters." The estimated gross national product plunged 24% from $91.5 billion in 1920 to $69.6 billion in 1921. The number of unemployed people jumped from 2.1 million in 1920 to 4.9 million in 1921.

2. Compared to FDR, Harding had a much better understanding of how an economy works. Harding, wrote historian Robert K. Murray, in The Harding Era (1969), "always decried high taxes, government waste, and excessive governmental interference in the private sector of the economy. In February 1920, shortly after announcing his candidacy, he advocated a cut in government expenditures and stated that government ought to ‘strike the shackles from industry.’ ‘We need vastly more freedom than we do regulation,’ he said. Surprisingly, big business took very little notice of him at the time."

3. One of Harding’s campaign slogans was "less government in business," and it served him well. Harding embraced the advice of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and called for tax cuts in his first message to Congress, April 12, 1921. The highest taxes, on corporate revenues and "excess" profits, were to be cut. Personal income taxes were to be left as is, with a top rate of 8% of incomes above $4,000. Harding recognized the crucial importance of encouraging investment essential for growth and jobs, something that FDR never did.

4. Harding’s Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 provided a unified federal budget for the first time in American history. The act established (1) the Bureau of the Budget with a budget director responsible to the president, and (2) the General Accounting Office to help cut wasteful spending.

5. Federal spending was cut from $6.3 billion in 1920 to $5 billion in 1921 and $3.2 billion in 1922. Federal taxes were cut from $6.6 billion in 1920 to $5.5 billion in 1921 and $4 billion in 1922. Harding’s policies started a trend. The low point for federal taxes was reached in 1924. For federal spending, in 1925. The federal government paid off debt, which had been $24.2 billion in 1920, and it continued to decline until 1930.

6. Conspicuously absent was business-bashing that became a hallmark of FDR’s speeches. Absent, too, were New Deal–type big government programs to make it more expensive for employers to hire people, to force prices above market levels, to promote cartels and monopolies. Frederick Lewis Allen wrote, "Business itself was regarded with a new veneration. Once it had been considered less dignified and distinguished than the learned professions, but now people thought they praised a clergyman highly when they called him a good business man."

7. With Harding’s tax cuts, spending cuts and relatively non-interventionist economic policy, the gross national product rebounded to $74.1 billion in 1922. The number of unemployed fell to 2.8 million – a reported 6.7% of the labor force – in 1922. So, just a year and a half after Harding became president, the Roaring 20s were underway! The unemployment rate continued to decline, reaching a low of 1.8% in 1926 – an extraordinary feat. Since then, the unemployment rate has been lower only once in wartime (1944), and never in peacetime.

8. "The seven years from the autumn of 1922 to the autumn of 1929," wrote Vedder and Gallaway, "were arguably the brightest period in the economic history of the United States. Virtually all the measures of economic well-being suggested that the economy had reached new heights in terms of prosperity and the achievement of improvements in human welfare. Real gross national product increased every year, consumer prices were stable (as measured by the consumer price index), real wages rose as a consequence of productivity advance, stock prices tripled. Automobile production in 1929 was almost precisely double the level of 1922. It was in the twenties that Americans bought their first car, their first radio, made their first long-distance telephone call, took their first out-of-state vacation. This was the decade when America entered ‘the age of mass consumption.’"

9. "Progressives" were astonishingly blind to Harding’s achievements. Newspaperman William Allen White called Harding "almost unbelievably ill-informed." Historian Allen wrote that Harding’s "mind was vague and fuzzy. Its quality was revealed in the clogged style of his public addresses, in his choice of turgid and maladroit language (‘non-involvement’ in European affairs)." Ironically, Allen wrote this in 1931, when the Great Depression had been going for two years. Harding had the depression of 1920 licked in a year and a half, but under the "progressive" FDR, the Great Depression would persisted throughout the 1930s, until FDR began conscripting millions of young men for the armed forces.

America’s Greatest Depression*Fighter by Jim Powell

Americas Greatest Depression Fighter by Jim Powell

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226645/not-so-great-depression/jim-powell

 

[Robert W]

I'll throw in another lesson for free.....you need it...


“Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high-tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much-maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China's economy.”

How Capitalism Will Save Us​

If sensible rescue efforts continue--and they will--the immediate crisis will quickly pass.

www.forbes.com

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan



Reaganomics - Wikipedia





And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.” http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm

“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.” Front page | U.S. Department of the Treasury

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

b. and c. Kiva Lending Team: Team REAL Americans | Kiva





While the ranks of the wealthy quickly multiplied, middle-class investors also entered the stock market in rapidly growing numbers. The creation by Congress in 1978 of the 401(k) tax-deferred retirement plan provided new incentives for workers to invest their savings in the stock market (often through mutual funds) rather than relying on company-funded pensions for retirement. The 401(k) led to a kind of democratization of Wall Street, as the percentage of American households owning some stake in the stock market—either directly or through mutual funds—shot quickly from 15.9% in 1983 to 29.6% in 1989.23 Thus the great bull market of the 1980s created more wealth, for more American families, than any previous boom in history.

Investment Company Institute, "Equity Ownership in America, 2005," http://www.ici.org/pdf/rpt_05_equity_owners.pdf,

The Reagan Era Learning Guide: Citations​

Shmoop’s sources cited for The Reagan Era

www.shmoop.com

I was directly affected by the Reagan economy as were my many Real Estate clients. They and i did very well. The best economy I have seen since 1938.

 

[Robert W]

.....and this is where your head explodes.....



1. America’s greatest depression fighter was Warren Gamaliel Harding. An Ohio senator when he was elected president in 1920, he followed Woodrow Wilson who got America into World War I, ...Harding inherited the mess, in particular the post-World War I depression – almost as severe, from peak to trough, as the Great Contraction from 1929 to 1933, that FDR inherited and prolonged. Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway, in their book Out of Work (1993), noted that the magnitude of the 1920 depression "exceeded that for the Great Depression of the following decade for several quarters." The estimated gross national product plunged 24% from $91.5 billion in 1920 to $69.6 billion in 1921. The number of unemployed people jumped from 2.1 million in 1920 to 4.9 million in 1921.

2. Compared to FDR, Harding had a much better understanding of how an economy works. Harding, wrote historian Robert K. Murray, in The Harding Era (1969), "always decried high taxes, government waste, and excessive governmental interference in the private sector of the economy. In February 1920, shortly after announcing his candidacy, he advocated a cut in government expenditures and stated that government ought to ‘strike the shackles from industry.’ ‘We need vastly more freedom than we do regulation,’ he said. Surprisingly, big business took very little notice of him at the time."

3. One of Harding’s campaign slogans was "less government in business," and it served him well. Harding embraced the advice of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and called for tax cuts in his first message to Congress, April 12, 1921. The highest taxes, on corporate revenues and "excess" profits, were to be cut. Personal income taxes were to be left as is, with a top rate of 8% of incomes above $4,000. Harding recognized the crucial importance of encouraging investment essential for growth and jobs, something that FDR never did.

4. Harding’s Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 provided a unified federal budget for the first time in American history. The act established (1) the Bureau of the Budget with a budget director responsible to the president, and (2) the General Accounting Office to help cut wasteful spending.

5. Federal spending was cut from $6.3 billion in 1920 to $5 billion in 1921 and $3.2 billion in 1922. Federal taxes were cut from $6.6 billion in 1920 to $5.5 billion in 1921 and $4 billion in 1922. Harding’s policies started a trend. The low point for federal taxes was reached in 1924. For federal spending, in 1925. The federal government paid off debt, which had been $24.2 billion in 1920, and it continued to decline until 1930.

6. Conspicuously absent was business-bashing that became a hallmark of FDR’s speeches. Absent, too, were New Deal–type big government programs to make it more expensive for employers to hire people, to force prices above market levels, to promote cartels and monopolies. Frederick Lewis Allen wrote, "Business itself was regarded with a new veneration. Once it had been considered less dignified and distinguished than the learned professions, but now people thought they praised a clergyman highly when they called him a good business man."

7. With Harding’s tax cuts, spending cuts and relatively non-interventionist economic policy, the gross national product rebounded to $74.1 billion in 1922. The number of unemployed fell to 2.8 million – a reported 6.7% of the labor force – in 1922. So, just a year and a half after Harding became president, the Roaring 20s were underway! The unemployment rate continued to decline, reaching a low of 1.8% in 1926 – an extraordinary feat. Since then, the unemployment rate has been lower only once in wartime (1944), and never in peacetime.

8. "The seven years from the autumn of 1922 to the autumn of 1929," wrote Vedder and Gallaway, "were arguably the brightest period in the economic history of the United States. Virtually all the measures of economic well-being suggested that the economy had reached new heights in terms of prosperity and the achievement of improvements in human welfare. Real gross national product increased every year, consumer prices were stable (as measured by the consumer price index), real wages rose as a consequence of productivity advance, stock prices tripled. Automobile production in 1929 was almost precisely double the level of 1922. It was in the twenties that Americans bought their first car, their first radio, made their first long-distance telephone call, took their first out-of-state vacation. This was the decade when America entered ‘the age of mass consumption.’"

9. "Progressives" were astonishingly blind to Harding’s achievements. Newspaperman William Allen White called Harding "almost unbelievably ill-informed." Historian Allen wrote that Harding’s "mind was vague and fuzzy. Its quality was revealed in the clogged style of his public addresses, in his choice of turgid and maladroit language (‘non-involvement’ in European affairs)." Ironically, Allen wrote this in 1931, when the Great Depression had been going for two years. Harding had the depression of 1920 licked in a year and a half, but under the "progressive" FDR, the Great Depression would persisted throughout the 1930s, until FDR began conscripting millions of young men for the armed forces.

America’s Greatest Depression*Fighter by Jim Powell

Americas Greatest Depression Fighter by Jim Powell

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226645/not-so-great-depression/jim-powell

That is a real gift to this forum. So much for so many to learn. Harding was president over a hundred years back so his accomplishments were not taught by Democrat union controlled teachers.

 

[bripat9643]

isn't it pretty narrow minded to simply rank presidents by how many Americans died in combat while they were in office?

Grow up.

Better than the method you use, which is how much they control you.

 

[Mashmont]

My favorite…the nexus of politics and history! And in today’s listicle, the work of one of the most astute and eruite intellects, Ben Shapiro. I came upon his piece of that title, Five Worst Presidents, and just had to share it!

The fifth worst President was Jimmy Carter, who did amazingly good job of damaging America given that he only lasted four years.

• Stagflation- high levels of inflation and stagnation.
• Huge unemployment rates
• Gasoline lines
• The Iranian Revolution and the Hostage Crisis
• Said he would reverse our “inordinate fear of communism,” followed by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• After his presidency he hung out with Hamas, and wrote speeches for Yasir Arafat
• Brokered the North Korean deal that led to North Korea having nuclear weapons

That was from Ben, but let me add Carter’s lie about being a nuclear scientist.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out Carter’s party…..the Democrats.

And be sure to pay attention to the party affiliation of each of the next four Worst Presidents.

I have had the pleasure in living under two of the greatest presidents of all time; Trump and Reagan, and also the misfortune of having to survive the worst five presidents in American history; LBJ, Carter, Clinton, 0bama, and now the Alzheimer's patient, each worse than the last.

 

[PoliticalChic]

That is a real gift to this forum. So much for so many to learn. Harding was president over a hundred years back so his accomplishments were not taught by Democrat union controlled teachers.

You are more than kind. I always try to confront Democrat ignorane with documented evidence. I wish I had more time for this forum.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I was directly affected by the Reagan economy as were my many Real Estate clients. They and i did very well. The best economy I have seen since 1938.

I wish I had been old enough to vote for Reagan.

 

[Robert W]

I wish I had been old enough to vote for Reagan.

Out of every president ranked, I am among the group that ranks Reagan as our best all time President.

 

[Lone Wanderer]

The 5 worst IMHO were:

5. Abraham Lincoln - the Civil War was probably inevitable, but it singlehandedly transformed us from being a voluntary union into a mandatory one. Yes, it did end slavery, but technological changes at the time would have likely ended that without a war within the next decade or so. That being said, we still had people of various races living essentially like slaves through the remainder of that century despite the 13th Amendment, so it begs the question of whether it was actually worth it.
4. Teddy Roosevelt - he vastly expanded government into areas never intended for the federal level. He also lobbied for the passage of an income tax after his presidency, which unfortunately came to fruition later on.
3. Woodrow Wilson - he set the stage for America to enter an even more warmongering phase than the preceding Spanish-American War. Before him, we at least loosely followed the Monroe Doctrine, but after him, our world policeman status was inevitable.
2. FDR - Franklin decided to expand on the statism of his fifth cousin by creating a welfare state that helped deepen the recession into a depression and only managed to get us out of the mess with entering the biggest war in history. Any hope of returning to a small federal government was gone by the end of his nearly 4 terms.
1. Biden - Bush and Obama were bad enough in their own right to make the bottom 10, but Biden just takes the social agendas of Obama and makes them worse while having fiscal irresponsibility as bad if not worse than Bush.