Who Was The Only President....

[PoliticalChic]

....who never blamed the previous administration for the nation's problems?

Yup....




George Washington
PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES
BORN
February 22, 1732
Westmoreland, Virginia
(Born on this day)
DIED
December 14, 1799 (aged 67)
Mount Vernon, Virginia




"Why is George Washington the Greatest President?

Washington is great for many things, but perhaps he is greatest for the manner in which he surrendered power not once but twice."
Why is George Washington the Greatest President?




BTW....who was the megalomaniac who refused to give it up.....took the presidency for his entire life???

You know who....

 

[PoliticalChic]

Arthur Schopenhauer, (born February 22, 1788, Danzig, Prussia [now Gdańsk, Poland]—died September 21, 1860, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]), German philosopher, often called the “philosopher of pessimism,” who was primarily important as the exponent of a metaphysical doctrine of the will in immediate reaction against Hegelian idealism. His writings influenced later existential philosophy and Freudian psychology.




Schopenhauer has an interesting parable, that in some way explains this message board:

"A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter; but, as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse. However the cold drove them together again, when just the same thing happened.

At last, after many turns of huddling and dispersing, they discovered that they would be best off by remaining at a little distance from one another.

In the same way the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature. The moderate distance which they at last discover to be the only tolerable condition of intercourse, is the code of politeness and fine manners; and those who transgress it are roughly told—in the English phrase—to keep their distance.

By this arrangement the mutual need of warmth is only very moderately satisfied; but then people do not get pricked. A man who has some heat in himself prefers to remain outside, where he will neither prick other people nor get pricked himself."

 

[ReinyDays]

George Washington was the ninth President of the United States ... we had eight unnumbered Presidents under the Articles of Confederation ... these eight Presidents took the full blame for us having to write a new Constitution ... and go ahead and read the second 80% of the Declaration of Independence ... talk about blame-game ...

Every one of our Constitutional rights comes from King John of England's abuses ... early 13th Century ... how can we forget the Danelaw? ... Hayden's Wall? ... 2 mile thick ice sheets over Minnesota? ... the blame for our troubles goes way back ...

 

[PoliticalChic]

George Washington was the ninth President of the United States ... we had eight unnumbered Presidents under the Articles of Confederation ... these eight Presidents took the full blame for us having to write a new Constitution ... and go ahead and read the second 80% of the Declaration of Independence ... talk about blame-game ...

Every one of our Constitutional rights comes from King John of England's abuses ... early 13th Century ... how can we forget the Danelaw? ... Hayden's Wall? ... 2 mile thick ice sheets over Minnesota? ... the blame for our troubles goes way back ...

A fair point.

The first under the Constitution.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Apologies to Bernie and the Democrat Party.....


Yesterday I was remiss in not acknowledging

On February 21st in 1848 Karl Marx published/celebrated the Communist Manifesto.

a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Communist Manifesto 10 Planks


Today, Marx would be a member of the Democrat Party...probably the nominee.....

 

[regent]

Apologies to Bernie and the Democrat Party.....


Yesterday I was remiss in not acknowledging

On February 21st in 1848 Karl Marx published/celebrated the Communist Manifesto.

a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Communist Manifesto 10 Planks


Today, Marx would be a member of the Democrat Party...probably the nominee.....

Golly-Gee we can't let that happen. What can we do?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Apologies to Bernie and the Democrat Party.....


Yesterday I was remiss in not acknowledging

On February 21st in 1848 Karl Marx published/celebrated the Communist Manifesto.

a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Communist Manifesto 10 Planks


Today, Marx would be a member of the Democrat Party...probably the nominee.....

Golly-Gee we can't let that happen. What can we do?

For starters, you could try to develop some integrity.

 

[Unkotare]

Apologies to Bernie and the Democrat Party.....


Yesterday I was remiss in not acknowledging

On February 21st in 1848 Karl Marx published/celebrated the Communist Manifesto.

a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Communist Manifesto 10 Planks


Today, Marx would be a member of the Democrat Party...probably the nominee.....

Golly-Gee we can't let that happen. What can we do?

For starters, you could try to develop some integrity.

Don't ask for the impossible.

 

[regent]

Lincoln's letter to Karl Marx

 

[regent]

Apologies to Bernie and the Democrat Party.....

Was it Did only a Republican president that wrote to Karl Marx?
Yesterday I was remiss in not acknowledging

On February 21st in 1848 Karl Marx published/celebrated the Communist Manifesto.

a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Communist Manifesto 10 Planks


Today, Marx would be a member of the Democrat Party...probably the nominee.....

Golly-Gee we can't let that happen. What can we do?

For starters, you could try to develop some integrity.

Don't ask for the impossible.

Lincoln's letter to Karl Marx

 

[regent]

Was

Apologies to Bernie and the Democrat Party.....

Was it only a Republican president that was pen-pals with Karl Marx?
Yesterday I was remiss in not acknowledging

On February 21st in 1848 Karl Marx published/celebrated the Communist Manifesto.

a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Communist Manifesto 10 Planks


Today, Marx would be a member of the Democrat Party...probably the nominee.....

Golly-Gee we can't let that happen. What can we do?

For starters, you could try to develop some integrity.

Don't ask for the impossible.

Lincoln's letter to Karl Marx

 

[whitehall]

Washington was a great General who led the rag tag revolutionaries to defeat arguably the greatest military force on the planet at the time. His tactical genius rewrote the rules of warfare. Even though he wasn't in the same intellectual class as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson he had the common sense to see the danger of a military monarchy while Jefferson was infatuated with the splendor of decadent European monarchies and Adams was still infatuated with the British titles. Thank God for Washington

 

[PoliticalChic]

Washington was a great General who led the rag tag revolutionaries to defeat arguably the greatest military force on the planet at the time. His tactical genius rewrote the rules of warfare. Even though he wasn't in the same intellectual class as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson he had the common sense to see the danger of a military monarchy while Jefferson was infatuated with the splendor of decadent European monarchies and Adams was still infatuated with the British titles. Thank God for Washington

"Thank God for Washington"

I certainly hope you meant that literally....

I join our Founders in believing that God played....and plays....a role in America's heritage, and our future (I hope), and George Washington is evidence of that.


When George Washington was 23, he served as a colonel in the Virginia militia. It was 1755, he was assigned to British General Braddock’s army, involved in an ambush at Monongahela. by Indians. To this day, it remains the single worst day in the annals of British military history. Of the thousand man contingent, only 23 escaped. And only three officers survived; only one of them, unwounded. Washington. And what a target he was: 6’3” at a time when the average was 5’5”! Two horses were shot out from under him. This was Washington’s comment, he was “protected beyond all human probability or expectation.”

Presbyterian pastor Reverend Samuel Davies, in a sermon that very year, 1755, said, “ I may point out to the public that heroic youth Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal [remarkable] a manner for some important service to his country.”
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/washington/ohio.html

 

[PoliticalChic]

George Washington was the ninth President of the United States ... we had eight unnumbered Presidents under the Articles of Confederation ... these eight Presidents took the full blame for us having to write a new Constitution ... and go ahead and read the second 80% of the Declaration of Independence ... talk about blame-game ...

Every one of our Constitutional rights comes from King John of England's abuses ... early 13th Century ... how can we forget the Danelaw? ... Hayden's Wall? ... 2 mile thick ice sheets over Minnesota? ... the blame for our troubles goes way back ...

March 7th,1778 One of the classic, and more tragic, naval encounters of the War of Indendence took place on March 7, 1778 between the 64 gun HMS Yarmouth and the 32 gun Continental Navy frigate Randolph.

The frigate Randolph, named for the president of the First Continental Congress [Payton Randolph, September 5, 1774] was one of the original 13 ships built for the Continental Navy. At 32 guns, she was among the largest of these first vessels and she had arguably the most talented American skipper in Nicholas Biddle.

The Yarmouth made a hit on the American’s magazine. The frigate blew up, killing Biddle and all but four of his crew of 315. This was the greatest single loss of life in any US Navy ship until the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Apologies to Bernie and the Democrat Party.....

Was it Did only a Republican president that wrote to Karl Marx?
Yesterday I was remiss in not acknowledging

On February 21st in 1848 Karl Marx published/celebrated the Communist Manifesto.

a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Communist Manifesto 10 Planks


Today, Marx would be a member of the Democrat Party...probably the nominee.....

Golly-Gee we can't let that happen. What can we do?

For starters, you could try to develop some integrity.

Don't ask for the impossible.

Lincoln's letter to Karl Marx

I didn't see where you mentioned the anti-George Washington President....the one who imagined that the presidency was his life-time sinecure.




C'mon.....you can do it.

 

[Agit8r]

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)

When one totals up federal, local, sales tax, fees, fines, etc., it is not unusual for an earner....Leftists love the term 'workers'...to fork over 50% or more of the fruits of their labor.

What do you feel is an adequate level of taxation?

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)

"Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)[/QUOTE]


1. Those of us who have read Jefferson, studied him, know that one can pretty much find support for any position in his writings.
You know that, don't you?


2. There has never been a problem with starvation in this country, even at the height of Roosevelt's instituting the Depression.
Didn't you know that?


3.The Old Testament actually obviated your point about "uncultivated lands and unemployed poor,"...
Ungleaned fields are left for the poor (Leviticus 19:10). Wealthy people are not to harvest every last bit of their crops—and poor people are allowed to work those fields to collect their food." Is God a Socialist?


4. . “The philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt argues that economic inequality is not inherently objectionable…”To the extent that it is truly undesirable, it is on account of its almost irresistible tendency to generate unacceptable inequalities of other kinds.

…Frankfurt’s alternative …is the ‘doctrine of sufficiency….’…imperative should be that everyone has enough.

This should have nothing to do with ‘the quantity of money that other people have’ because ‘doing worse than others does not entail doing badly.’ George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p. 284-285


5. There is no real poverty....poverty in the Dickensian sense, in America. That would be defined by no home, no heat, no food.
Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked.
Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib



I hope you are smart enough to have taken notes on the above.

 

[Agit8r]

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)

"Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)

1. Those of us who have read Jefferson, studied him, know that one can pretty much find support for any position in his writings.
You know that, don't you?


2. There has never been a problem with starvation in this country, even at the height of Roosevelt's instituting the Depression.
Didn't you know that?


3.The Old Testament actually obviated your point about "uncultivated lands and unemployed poor,"...
Ungleaned fields are left for the poor (Leviticus 19:10). Wealthy people are not to harvest every last bit of their crops—and poor people are allowed to work those fields to collect their food." Is God a Socialist?


4. . “The philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt argues that economic inequality is not inherently objectionable…”To the extent that it is truly undesirable, it is on account of its almost irresistible tendency to generate unacceptable inequalities of other kinds.

…Frankfurt’s alternative …is the ‘doctrine of sufficiency….’…imperative should be that everyone has enough.

This should have nothing to do with ‘the quantity of money that other people have’ because ‘doing worse than others does not entail doing badly.’ George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p. 284-285


5. There is no real poverty....poverty in the Dickensian sense, in America. That would be defined by no home, no heat, no food.
Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked.
Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib



I hope you are smart enough to have taken notes on the above.[/QUOTE]

How do you think that the bible supports your position?

"And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." -- Acts 4:32

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)

"Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to James Madison (Oct. 28, 1785)

1. Those of us who have read Jefferson, studied him, know that one can pretty much find support for any position in his writings.
You know that, don't you?


2. There has never been a problem with starvation in this country, even at the height of Roosevelt's instituting the Depression.
Didn't you know that?


3.The Old Testament actually obviated your point about "uncultivated lands and unemployed poor,"...
Ungleaned fields are left for the poor (Leviticus 19:10). Wealthy people are not to harvest every last bit of their crops—and poor people are allowed to work those fields to collect their food." Is God a Socialist?


4. . “The philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt argues that economic inequality is not inherently objectionable…”To the extent that it is truly undesirable, it is on account of its almost irresistible tendency to generate unacceptable inequalities of other kinds.

…Frankfurt’s alternative …is the ‘doctrine of sufficiency….’…imperative should be that everyone has enough.

This should have nothing to do with ‘the quantity of money that other people have’ because ‘doing worse than others does not entail doing badly.’ George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p. 284-285


5. There is no real poverty....poverty in the Dickensian sense, in America. That would be defined by no home, no heat, no food.
Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked.
Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib



I hope you are smart enough to have taken notes on the above.

How do you think that the bible supports your position?

"And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." -- Acts 4:32[/QUOTE]


"How do you think that the bible supports your position? "

What do position do you imagine I've advanced?
I simply pointed out that the bible makes your claim that there is no way to integrate "uncultivated lands and unemployed poor,"...

There is, it is simple, and I stated it.



Now....why your fear to respond to this query?
When one totals up federal, local, sales tax, fees, fines, etc., it is not unusual for an earner....Leftists love the term 'workers'...to fork over 50% or more of the fruits of their labor.

What do you feel is an adequate level of taxation?