Taxcutter
12-05-2012, 10:58 AM
George Washington is widely believed to be the greatest US President of all time. He was revered by contemporaneous world figures. Even Napoleon, a man with no ego shortage was awed by Washington. His last words were: “They always wanted me to be Washington.”
But Washington would be reviled by today’s Left and MSM.
Washington owned slaves
Washington’s plantation raised tobacco
Washington wore his Christian beliefs like a badge of honor
Washington was a Freemason. There is a drawing of him laying the cornerstone of the Capitol wearing his Masonic apron. He was the Grandmaster of a Virginia lodge.
Washington believed in a small federal government. His federal government consumed less than 4% of the GDP of the time and a lot of that was buying up gold from a gold strike in Georgia. That gold kept the US easily on a gold standard until well into the 19th century, and provided the gold for Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase.
Washington’s budget was almost entirely defense, interest, and buying gold.
Washington ran a net budget surplus during his tenure as President.
The taxation under Washington were 100% consumption taxes.
Washington abhorred egalitarianism. The world got a good look at egalitarianism running amok in the French Revolution.
Washington fostered and personally invested in an unregulated chemical industry (E.I.DuPont de Nemours, Inc)
In private life Washington was a real estate wheeler-dealer as well as a farmer
Both at the federal and state levels, government used capital punishment at an intensity that would make modern-day Texans blanch
Runaway slaves and homosexuals were routinely lynched in Washington’s day
There was no federal regulation of any part of the economy in Washington’s administration
Women and dead people were not allowed to vote in Washington’s day
Numerous scandals form the time of the American Revolution surfaced in Washington’s day but he was never implicated in any of them
During Washington’s day, air pollution, water pollution, and disease made America’s cities nearly untenable
Washington’s patent office granted Eli Whitney a patent for his cotton gin, which prolonged slavery in the US by more than a half-century
Washington was of the Federalist Party that eventually morphed into the Republican Party
…and…
The economy more than doubled under the Washington administration.
Can you imagine the stink raised by Brian Williams, Chris Mathews, and Debbie Wassermann-Schultz about such a President?
But Washington would be reviled by today’s Left and MSM.
Washington owned slaves
Washington’s plantation raised tobacco
Washington wore his Christian beliefs like a badge of honor
Washington was a Freemason. There is a drawing of him laying the cornerstone of the Capitol wearing his Masonic apron. He was the Grandmaster of a Virginia lodge.
Washington believed in a small federal government. His federal government consumed less than 4% of the GDP of the time and a lot of that was buying up gold from a gold strike in Georgia. That gold kept the US easily on a gold standard until well into the 19th century, and provided the gold for Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase.
Washington’s budget was almost entirely defense, interest, and buying gold.
Washington ran a net budget surplus during his tenure as President.
The taxation under Washington were 100% consumption taxes.
Washington abhorred egalitarianism. The world got a good look at egalitarianism running amok in the French Revolution.
Washington fostered and personally invested in an unregulated chemical industry (E.I.DuPont de Nemours, Inc)
In private life Washington was a real estate wheeler-dealer as well as a farmer
Both at the federal and state levels, government used capital punishment at an intensity that would make modern-day Texans blanch
Runaway slaves and homosexuals were routinely lynched in Washington’s day
There was no federal regulation of any part of the economy in Washington’s administration
Women and dead people were not allowed to vote in Washington’s day
Numerous scandals form the time of the American Revolution surfaced in Washington’s day but he was never implicated in any of them
During Washington’s day, air pollution, water pollution, and disease made America’s cities nearly untenable
Washington’s patent office granted Eli Whitney a patent for his cotton gin, which prolonged slavery in the US by more than a half-century
Washington was of the Federalist Party that eventually morphed into the Republican Party
…and…
The economy more than doubled under the Washington administration.
Can you imagine the stink raised by Brian Williams, Chris Mathews, and Debbie Wassermann-Schultz about such a President?